History
A cult of wheeled angels to replace the winged ones Rebellion needs knuckleheads and symbols of an inglorious past Lest we forget what the torches and black white red flags parades brought No harm is meant by the many, but ignorance of history is a slippery slope When Ministers of state in Germany hold torch-lit […]
Beyond the mysterious, evolution has meandering ways Since the Swedish born Majbritt Morrison incident back in 1958 When an mixed couple stirred the mainstream white gangs She was arrested for standing her ground against teddy boy mob attack Author of best seller “Jungle West 11” married to Raymond Morrisson Jamaican artist painter who later became […]
I wish you all viewers and friends a Happy New Year A new year would not be complete without the good resolutions I found the 2022 motto at the back of the statue’s pedestal Of the Bomber Command Monument in Green Park Words of Pericles (495 – 429 BC) about Freedom Bombing may not seem the […]
Post-lockdown diners in Chinatown Under scrutiny of suspicious passerby The odd has become a fake normalcy For political gain of our momentary rulers Race and gender issues have been forcibly merged Yet they do not share the same history Both will suffer from the confusion This is precisely what the handlers sought Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
A few days away from the traditional date No move and no signs of a revival The year 2020 may well be the missing link The door wide open to extinction Black Lives Matter does not fulfil the same role As it is disconnected from African culture It may end up as a melting pot […]
The descendants of the slaves The excluded from the US Constitution ‘We the people’ was just a phrase in a preamble Words that rang like music, but empty words It was not a revolution but a power squabble of the rich Over robbed land worked by the black slaves We must always remember history and […]
Leaving Oxford Street the legend on wheels takes a turn into Soho A Mustang of the first generation of Ford’s famous pony-cars Named after a quarter-mile stud or a wartime fighter aircraft And the street is dotted with chewed out gums like venomous shrooms All this minute history held in a single fold of a […]
Done away the horns, chains and molasses of the past masquerades Meet the cyberpunk cosplay S&M ladies in leather nails and latex outfits New trends take over the sidelines the iconoclastic icons of tomorrow The virtual reality and the violent video games foretell the next revolutions The voodoo tradition is temporarily eclipsed by the virtual […]
In the streets around the cathedral where the urubu roost The bright midday sun crushes the passerby regardless of their age The walls are Red and white like the Peruvian flag A reminder of the bloodshed of the post-Colombian history The conquistadors are gone and the gringo rule took their seat But the Inca people […]
Africa is the long unwritten human history Whether some call it today ”peoplekind” or other names Just shows how small they are against the wall of our common wisdom Languages change and we give new names to the oldest Gods History does not change it is a matter of knowledge and time illiteracy This distorts […]