Eternity
Like strangers in the night, the terraced houses touch But their eyes never meet unless in their reflections The night stands still in the quasi-silence of the city’s rumble Sitting in a row, patiently waiting for an eternity Something vague as a dream, beyond the wreckers’ hammers Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery Hits: 6
The girl with kaleidoscopic eyes has a ticket to ride The red double decker the old souvenirs of the quartet Who sang ‘she’s got a ticket to ride’, I was then in my early teens The first parties under the vigilance of an army of mommies Sporting crazy ‘permed’ hairdos that looked like crash helmets […]
A few adobe houses and some granaries lost in the semi-desertic bushland A family farm slowly grows into a hamlet in the middle of the millet fields The millet fields are parched desert soil that become fertile at the rainy season The rest of the year it is an arid plain hardly supporting sheep and […]
Plummeting from the low flying clouds or climbing out of the long stairway from the world of below Doe-eyed red caped angels with lily white feathers looking at eternity through my lens The forbidden passage to the forbidden garden of Eden, guarded by terrible Cherubs In the haze of the maze of our troubled selves, […]
Girls meet boy and all pretend they don’t see Swag meets the seduction moves it is all about attraction There is no writing on the wall, the story did not even start yet The barbed wires keep the forbidden fruit, and all options on the table Infinity meets eternity when the paths do cross Who […]
Following the whims of destiny, the wind blows away the sand from the desert To paints the city in a dull ochre color, leaving a thin layer like a veil A tire repair shop, a garage and a tailor in a steel cage, make for a business center Two idle souls watch recklessly the busy […]
To be or not to be, that is the question Looking at the Carnival on a smart phone Being in the Carnival and away from it in the same time The virtual and the real are locked in a deadly combat The smartphone generation kids look at themselves living Instead of living the moment, they […]
Something snaps in her head as I snap the picture We all have our moment of reason, eternity can wait The ways of Notting Hill are mysterious indeed We tend to forget the origins of Masquerade As well as the August 1958 racial riots in Notting Hill They led Claudia Jones Cumberbatch to launch the […]
The landscape unfurls before the car’s open window Like Jack’s magic scroll unscrolls on a giant blue and purple screen The view is blurred by time as well as speed, it is the road movie It is past sunset and the Rio pavements, the beach the islands set on the sea Still dance before my […]
The famous Copacabana sidewalks shine under the spotlights From the balcony of the Copacabana Palace the beach looks like eternity And in the middle of the night insomniacs and nyctalopes meet at the cafes And spend the wee hours sipping at the nectar of the flowers of evil The waves sing their distant lullabies and […]