Fate
Now that the party is over, except at Number Ten What are the little helpers going to do until next year Will they be dipped in brine and locked in the larder Until the good old Saint Nicholas shall bring sacks of gold To buy them out of their unbecoming fate Perhaps this is what […]
The trending Asterix or Viking helmets to impersonate the Jab The history of masquerade is about the representation of Satan Jab is a creole phonetic version of the French ‘Diable’ (Devil) As opposed to Christian religion at the centre of carnivals Masquerades were celebration of emancipated slaves Disguised with horns, chains and molasses like devils […]
Cutting through the crowds a figurehead heaving in a storm She appeared between crashing waves of rowdy revelers A beautiful vision disappearing in the same mysterious way Fate is always clever at sleight of hand It made sure our eyes would never meet Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The city spreads its railroads like tentacles deep into suburbia To catch fresh commuters in the morning and drag them to work To disgorge them exhausted and hollow on the platforms of evening From the Junction, London is like a T.S. Lowry painting, poetic but hopeless The blue collars have long been swallowed by the […]