Dusk and Dust
Suddenly, Yesterday seems so far away The quartet sang to the then rising generation Mellow and soft tones of a revolt that never rose It is much like Africa over the ten last years The promised light at the end of the tunnel In the mellow yet menacing words of the handlers Is just a […]
Schoolgirls wandering like little riding hoods Looking for the wolves in the dusk and dust of the day Or is it all about imagination that triggers the shutter A glimpse and a lapse in the photographer’s mind Poetry escapes any formal definition Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners 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 […]
A mottled tropical sky quickly turning purple The dust of a long hot day settles above the trees The Saharan night will come like the flick of a switch And the Southern Cross will light the sky for the lost traveler Eternity rides camelback across Africa with the long salt caravans Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Last minute shopping before dark The golden hour is in the purple blue phase Tropical night will suddenly drop like a curtain Birds will go silent as the frogs pick-up the music The unnerving hum of hungry mosquito hordes Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery
Stalls crumbling under an avalanche of fruit and greens The Garden of Eden’s open gates and a wireless social network Seen from the Western colonial pedestal, Africa was the beggar in rags Now they enjoy the freedom and the food that Europeans queue for Imagine Southbound boatloads of asylum-seekers crossing the Mediterranean As The Book […]
Away from the Western selfish materialist societies Where confinement is made possible by individualism Where a two persons gathering becomes a legal limit And lockup has a meaning only because of the locks Exceptionalism is the disease, fortunately less contagious Self-isolation is just an acute form of Narcissism This ignorance may save the ‘invisible’ part […]