Notting Hill Carnival 2012
Three black beauties walking down Chepstow Each wearing pink in a different manner Looking like a posse after some fugitive He, she, them or it, the heart rustlers It the short lapses of silence between the sound rigs Justice will be dealt swiftly Stolen hearts my be returned, if found… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Reading my past in the Book of Life I came across a stare, in a beautiful but sad face The message, like a promise, was reading ‘Paradise’ But she was lost somewhere on the flat bed of a rig A wandering beauty in the maze of her thoughts No penny could open the vault So […]
Wild wild West London on Carnival days Anything goes as girls run out of control Music, drinks and laughter, the tinkle of the broken dreams The difficult labour of forgetting while remembering The spirit, the soul and the inebriation Counting the clouds until nine… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery Hits: 12
The secret picture of the first Novichokolate attack at Notting Hill Men wearing hazchem suits enter into a trance as they pass the French antidote Busloads of screaming and foaming at the mouth hacks will follow, the world will never change Bipolar disorders naturally bring the colds wars, fun can be fatal, it comes with […]
Huddled like a sculpture of an imaginary monument to the Middle Passage A tribute to the memory of the millions who died during the crossing To the millions who died at the hands and whips of the white masters And to the millions who endured and suffered under the supremacist rule And the drama keeps […]
Here comes the Mitochondrial Eve strutting on the alleys of the Hill The fool sits on the sidelines gawking at the giant swirling planets Is it the reincarnation of Mae West or Jane Mansfield Fantasies are the roller coaster of the brain the safety valve and cut off switch Looking in the eye of the […]
Flying the colors two young Trinidad and Tobago black beauties defy the camera One like a she-Cyclops she stares at the lens and perhaps at the man behind No rules is the rule of Carnival, anything goes and beauty comes as the famous cherry Our heads in the clouds, we follow the music on the […]
A flash of bright colors patches over a brown body shining like a flame The patched outfit of Harlequin, faithful servant to the lovers Or the feathers of the peaceful Arawaks who greeted the long boats Carnival was the transition between religions in remembrance of the idols New books come with new rules, but nothing […]
Plummeting from the low flying clouds or climbing out of the long stairway from the world of below Doe-eyed red caped angels with lily white feathers looking at eternity through my lens The forbidden passage to the forbidden garden of Eden, guarded by terrible Cherubs In the haze of the maze of our troubled selves, […]
Shining like little mermaids just pulled out of the sea A school of young black beauties dressed in flashy colors Milling around as they wait for their marching orders Wild-eyed wanderers looking at the crowd that comes looking There is an invisible barrier between the dancers and the watchers A different trance and a different […]