Photo Hugh Ardoin
A lull in the storm that rushes down Chepstow A chic fashionista left almost unscathed from the paint assaults Between a Bob Marley fan and an aspiring Diva goggled like a bee It is rainy tonight and I look at the patterns drawn by the water on the window Memories flash back at the rhythm […]
Boy meets girl and wants to show her around She is half naked and acts like some shy stripper Noting serious happens at masquerade, yet it happens It is just everyday life accelerated so the downside gets blurred Motion blur induced in the corner of our eyes by the smiles on our face Photo Hugh […]
Enthralled by the sound waves Bathing in a rocking black sea Young blond beauty let her shirt do the talk Like the writing on the wall would be a play of words Words you could not hear in the unrelenting din of masquerade Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
What is allowed on the paper will not be in the flesh The definition of the original sin revised by marketing geniuses You would get arrested if you walked the street like this Yet publicity uses glamour (envy) to sell its wares While “Farcebook” screamin’ mimis sing in unison”vade retro Satanas” The brave new world, […]
Enigmatic and piercing eyes peering under her weaved braids Like a mermaid emerging from the Sargasso Sea Casting the Great Cthulhu worshipper’s mesmerizing gaze She’ll catch the castaways in the web of her tentacl’d hair And draw them, hapless and breathless, to the brim of her lips Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival […]
All sparkle and braces like little demons escaped from hell Young masquerade debutantes are all smiles for the camera Girls going to parties full of hopes, kissing every frog Princes charming in the making, mere tadpoles That quietly loll in the troubled waters of their dreams The pond looks like a vast ocean, it is […]
As the rigs they were crawling down the Chespton Row Reggae music blaring from the monster speakers We remembered Bob Marley and his gentle words Everything’s gonna be all right, and we cried and we laughed Joy is like rum, it needs the right mix with the pain Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 […]
Keeping an eye for tidal waves to come A London mariner stands on the deck London is an island in an island Everything will come from the sea The Normans the Danes and the “who knows” Would it be so different if it was the Caribbean ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
This couple has been coming every year to masquerade The man waving a flag in a most expert manner The woman holds the bottle, while keeping tabs on him Now it is water, it used to be different We grow wise in time as long as we survive Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 […]
The beautiful differences beer or chocolate Black girls splattered with chocolate A soft remake of the masquerade molasses The old emancipation tradition White fashionista holding her ice-cold beer Participants or spectators, that is the question Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery