Flow
A smile is a quarter cut from the Moon, like the Cheshire cat grin Three aspiring graces pose for the camera performing the regular smile And at this very moment they are the embodiment of their dreams We live in a flow of images that have replaced the clocks Time is measured by the posting, […]
The old Niamey bridge spreads like a tired Hercules over River Niger The lazy brown river slowly flows through deserts, it brings little sediment Traffic is heavy all day, at night the big lorries rumble past like ancient caravans Long hauls driving deep into the heart of Africa coming from the sea, hundreds of miles away […]
Standing against the flow of the revelers, snapping portraits Catching the spirit as the mood comes from the sidelines, a trickle of the trifle An anchor still clinging to reality against a drifting dream ready to run amok A couple passes by, holding their beer cans like a compass, the flash of a tired glance […]
The crowd starts to flow, slowly at the beginning They move like zombies towards the music and the noise You can hear the wild screams of the revelers and the distance And the obsessive beat of the drums calling the subjects to the sacrifice They will dance all night at the light of the spotlights […]
We’ll cross the bridge when we come to it At the exact median two generations cross their paths Each hurrying towards his own goal, the known and the unknown The wind of ime is blowing the past meets the present for an instant Both walking briskly towards their future, yet in different directions And below […]
Like a rainbow, a young black beauty spills her colors in Oxford Street Lost in her conversation she strides over the timelines We cling to the dead branches of the tree of our life as time sweeps us away Fighting the flow, we sink like Alice through the mirror We expect to reach the bottom […]
On Carnival days Nothing is off-limits in Notting Hill You can sit on the sidelines and watch the flow Dancing and laughing crowds waving at you An invitation to their voyage and celebration Plunge in this human tide, let the undertow carry you Drown yourself in the soft music of oblivion The reverse of the […]
For aeons, the island has been standing in the water Now the old bridge stops here to rest in the middle of its crossing Shallows will follow the floods and the waters will flow as the years The course of time is unstoppable, even with our eyes closed Until the eternal sleep takes us where […]
Laundry day in Babylon, the ladies and the girls bring the washing to the river The shimmering golden flow of the most precious asset in the desert The riverbanks are the banks of the people Like the river, life flows as the tranquil yet untamed passing of time It flows with high and low ebbs but […]