Music
A lonely figure in a dim circle of light Playing music for the lovers and ordinary crowds Letting the sounds run free as he sits silently Like the starry nights we are billions of stars Light years away from each other But lovers are tethered cosmonauts Holding hands in the interstellar void Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Red smoke to mark the drop zone While the ladies jostle for the throne An the crowd, like a wave that never breaks Flows with the music down the avenues Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2016 Carnival Gallery
The writing on the road may tell the bus to stop But buses can’t read and no bus will ever stop And the dancers keep twerking and tailgating The street is filled with screams music and colors A surrealist dream is slowly filling your mind Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
A golden fleece looking for another Jason and a few more Argonauts Or is it a double image of the “Sleeping Gypsy” by Henri Rousseau A black wanderer, a mandolin player, lies in the desert beside a water jar Overcome by fatigue she falls asleep under a full moon A lion happens to pass by, […]
Beyond the street there is the street Performers and onlookers start to twerk and shout Farewell to the twist and shout, let’s start something new The Soca and the Reggae music from the sunny islands A wave that came across the Atlantic, a Columbus in reverse At long last… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Music and joy are highly contagious in Notting Hill The sidelines catch the fever and become the centre of attraction Let the music play every one will find the beat and his own rhythm And all the colors spilled in the streets, they broke away like Humpty-Dumpty And all the Queens’ men and all the […]
We dance to the music and drink from the bottle And the dancers follow in tune they never skip the beat Only broken hearts do that before they roll into the gutter They lie pell-mell with discarded beer cans and broken glass Making friends… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Meeting the succubus with music and booze on Chepstow The choice of no choice between two evils as they say It is a threat or threat trick in a Halloween manner And while you are looking for the candy, the girls dance away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery