Notting Hill Carnival 2017
Between the Mas Bandz floats, the sidelines take control of the street Tha armies of the Mughal Empire were vanquished by Shivaji The warrior king defeats the Emperor and the sack of Surat in India Meanwhile the Kronenbourg brewery was founded in Strasbourg Back to the future, sipping at your ice-cold beer Hugh Ardoin The […]
The sacred fruit from the Garden of Eden are the road to perdition Who said that nothing ever happens on Notting Hill Moving the mountains at Chepstow and but signs said stop The message is almost an invitation to translation It is all for the eyes and you should not complain As the sirens riding […]
As the spirit of Carnival spreads like fire in the minds of the revelers Under strict supervision of their elders, young dancing troops perform their duties Girls in bright shiny colours are ushered into the world of show-business Sometimes, hopes of becoming rich and famous obscure the fun of the moment Like Prince’s famous album […]
I had a dream, I saw a crow hanging on a tree His name was Jim I saw thousands of boats sailing from Africa I saw the gaols of Gorée The Middle Passage and the great oblivion I saw a ship coming from the Americas Her name was ‘Windrush’ Claudia, the Carnival is your only […]
Zabriskie Point is one of the lasting Wild West legends, a remote and beautiful place in the Death Valley – California Badlands surrounding a collapsed lake, it was called the point of no return, if when you got there you had to carry-on or die In 1968, Michelangelo Antonioni shot his eponymous and famous film […]
Beauty needs no mirror It is a reflection in the eyes of the beholders Millions of eyes like stars looking at the stars in a nightly lake Be the Queen in the Sleeping Beauty’s castle asking mirror, mirror The fairest of them all is somewhere out in the crowd Now the spell is broken and […]
There is a long corridor of darkness that leads from Chepstow to Westbourne Where the winged and unwinged angels come to meet with their demons A kind of place where the good and the evil hang together in limbo Immune to the music, the lights and the commotion of the masquerade A road to perdition […]
More fans than they can handle, as the sign says No Two young black beauties in Carnival attire More skin than silk and more skills than meets the eye The shades of the shades, but no gray, full colors ahead Like flags unfurling in the wake of the parade They will disappear from our vision […]
On the very same road somewhere between Farje and Bomboulassa Where the recently resurfaced still leads to the broken ferry The children walk to school and have children’s disputes on the way A parched land where education is now available to girls and boys alike We all carry deep in our heart a dream, a […]
All eyes are on her as she dances oblivious to the ogling crowd Sailing around the Jamrock waters and like the Iliad heroes Caught between Charybdis and Scylla, the rock and the hard place Lured by the siren’s song, you lose your ship to the crags and the cliffs When all is lost and the storm […]