Dancers
As if the clocks of time lost all their hands And a moment of joy becomes suspended Frozen like bright colored Eskimos, the dancers smile The public reluctantly tries to steal the show As the sleepless nights take their toll Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 8
Dancers and the temptresses rest their wings on the way down the hill It will be time enough when the parade reaches the Notting Hill gates At the bottom of the hill the angels will meet their wingless kin And with the succubus, the she-wolves and the vampyres they will dance The masquerade is the […]
When the expected meets the unexpected The butterfly effect and the theory of chaos We all gathered here with one single hope That in the end this celebration would bring change But each of us wished for a different outcome One butterfly will change the world at a flap of its wing It will take […]
We dance to the music and drink from the bottle And the dancers follow in tune they never skip the beat Only broken hearts do that before they roll into the gutter They lie pell-mell with discarded beer cans and broken glass Making friends… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 5
Patting her friend’s money-maker A Midas touch that will turn her body into gold Shaking it and twerking, it’s ladies’ night tenfold Carefree dancers and onlookers let go for masquerade All that shines may not be gold, but for two days and three nights We will believe in the yellow brick road Hugh Ardoin The […]
A girl, swooping down from the clouds of a midsummer dream Showing the dimensions of her elation, the instant of freedom The sound-rigs move along with the dancers in a haze of pungent smoke Dreams have wings, angels have halos, humans have hopes in chains Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2014 Carnival Gallery Hits: 15
The first sketch is the best dancing with her shadow Looking like the beginning of the famous Matisse painting Two of the five gracious nude dancers the matching color of her skimpy top Waving the Jamaican flag waving her body, making waves The butterfly effect Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival Gallery Hits: 25
Losing your eyes and religion to a naked woman disguised as a snake The utter suffering of the naked eye as we follow, mesmerized, the shadow play The road to perdition is open, but the toll is high and we need more than just a token The flames rise high to the sky as we […]
Down the Notting Hill avenues the crowd flows Like a calculated stampede of prancing dancers The timekeeper keeps the time at bay Whilst odalisques of all size and shape strut their strut The bulk of the anonymous chant along dazed and boozed Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill Carnival Galleries Hits: 25
The melancholy of the disappearing odalisques The last dance as the night starts seeping into the streets Clad and unclad in bright yellow dayglo outfits and matching feathers The dancers are reluctant to let go of the day After long hours of music and sun smoke and spirits The street seems to engulf the revelers […]