Freedom
Riding high into the battle of Shrewsbury Mews on her steed Fending off the crowds and holding back the crumbling walls The spirits and the smokes fuel the illusions as the world starts spinning round An enthralled black man called horse, blinkered with pink heart-shaped glasses Night is coming to our mind as we grow […]
Nothing serious, it is just a twerk meet The pretense of a minute physical rub The rush and the blush, the instant forgotten Like butterflies bumping on each flower The inebriating spirits race to the head Dancing to forget and dancing to remember The celebration of a new freedom at every sunrise Hugh Ardoin The […]
Beauty comes down Chepstow in waves an hues Flagged or unflagged, laughing and giggling Bottle in hand to keep the spirit high Adding to the inebriation of two days of freedom In spite of heavy police presence and profiling Tuesday will only come too soon Opening the next one-year waiting Hugh Ardoin THe Notting Hill […]
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf Beauty is a weapon of mass destruction The lady in red is a strong symbol Be it in bullfighting of to catch frogs (princes) Or the redcoats, the loyalists in the American revolution A Freedom that turned later into the genocide of the red skins Red can be […]
A girl, swooping down from the clouds of a midsummer dream Showing the dimensions of her elation, the instant of freedom The sound-rigs move along with the dancers in a haze of pungent smoke Dreams have wings, angels have halos, humans have hopes in chains Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2014 Carnival Gallery Hits: 15
Like the golden cages of our young age That our loving moms used to build around us To fence our dreams and keep us out of mischief We had this dream of a paradise to fulfil our desires Somewhere beyond the barriers up in the sky We would fly like Timothy Leary we would be […]
Runaway black beauties coming down the hill The need for speed and the inebriation of joy No panting beast running after their heels No other danger than a Humpty Dumpty’s fall The spirit of freedom of those born to be wild Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2013 Carnival Gallery Hits: 49
The backstage invades the stage as sideline beauties take to the streets Drinking beer and Coca-Cola, hiding behind reflective shades The masquerade is on and you don’t need a mask, you come as you are Days and nights of frenzy, just a minute foretaste of freedom It will be sent back to the gaols of […]
Drifters and confetti sparkle and wine at the masquerade Celebrating a freedom delivered piecemeal and clawed back The human condition is more inhumane when you are black But the good nature and strong spirits of the original humans is never defeated Let’s drink and sink into a moment oblivion Let’s temporarily forgive and forget as […]
Something is bound to happen as young women are let loose by the droves Carnival is the masquerade, the celebration of a recently acquired freedom To the supine children of this easy era of virtuality, this is the first lesson of life Freedom doesn’t come for free, it has to be earned and conquered Freedom […]