Mermaids
Like wandering Ulysses sailing across endless oceans Lost at sea listening to the mermaids’ distant call Lured into Charybdis’ hungry crutches, or was it Scylla Alcohols and smokes have turned the streets into maelstroms Fuelling our irresistible inclination for fatal attractions Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Ladies put on their best outfits to shine on Carnival days To catch the eye of the bad boys that trawl along the avenues Like schools of glittery mermaids wriggling their assets Who is fish who is the bait, anything goes in love’s catch as catch can Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival […]
Emerging from a dream to plunge into a 3D video game Wandering along the burning alleys between Parnassus and Olympus It started raining diosas and nowhere to shelter for the night Suddenly awoke from a sleepwalking voyage, you take the plunge The rivers and the beaches of crystal sands the mermaids call again You will […]
The angler throws a line to catch the glittering gold fish Attracted by the flash of a rhinestone the feather of the lure Young swimmers call the aspiring sinners, like distant mermaids To catch their victims in fishnet stockings and drag them down into the deep Hear them sing, hear them wail Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
The music rigs inch their way along Chepstow, booming and blaring Frenzied crowds mill around as the showgirls swiftly cut their way They are trailed by a wake of white feathers like stratospheric ships Wearing a few inches of cloth and rivers of rhinestones Like mermaids in this human sea, they will lure the homesick […]