Destiny
As the pandemic masquerade goes on The waltz of masks and death Rising from the underworld As the IQ-gifted of the world Profess about the unknown And offer immunity if not immortality As destiny dances away The clock ticks and tok’s Pet Hates Toys rests in the window Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The long African journeys start at dusk Taking advantage of cooler yet still hot times Dimly lit machines hit the road in a flurry Destiny stands on the roadside to hike a ride It will leave you at a crossing or in a bend Or it will follow you to your destination Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Young black beauty eager to learn the mystery of her life reading The fascination that prescience exerts like the oracles of old The urge to learn what is written on the wall of our destiny What it does not tell is how to navigate the shoals of the rivers of life Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
A pretty young thing smiles with her eyes Staring into the cold mirror of the lens As if there was some kind of soul inside But it is just an arresting net for fragments of time Meanwhile, her friend looks intently at the girl behind Emotions dance like fireflies in the air, almost tangible While […]
The crowd is like the sea in its changing tides The sidelines of the show are like the shores Where jetsam and flotsam meet in their haphazard destiny Whales and whitebait become beached at some point in time Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Smartphone zombies flow in and out of Tottenham Court Station A cool hipster posing and puffing on a designer scooter All dressed up, waiting for nothing but to be noticed Time and fame are fickle while we are swept away by our destiny Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
A teenager plays Joe Cool leaning on the wall Bored by the endless rainy days and eager for tomorrow Bearing his ennui on his shoulders like a brick wall Time will tick away, at first like a trickle Then as years go by it becomes a fast river And you will try to swim, back […]
The threads of life will unravel themselves into our destiny The captain meets a mermaid at the shores of Notting Hill A blue-eyed wanderer and a gentlemen officers flirt away The parade is a ship, the captain at the helm and the mermaids in tow The end of the story remains untold Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
All the earthly goodies, cold champagne is like ice on fire and a smile to beckon From the gates of Eden you can see the spiralling staircase of Hell And through the billowing smoke the flames of the bonfires burning below Running blind and empty on the winding road to your destiny You will reach […]
Like Aphrodite born from the sea a young black beauty emerges from the waving crowd With a necklace of feathers resembling water lilies that escaped from Monet’s brush The ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, the Lady of the Southern Sycamore She waits at the sacred tree to greet and give a present to those leaving this […]