Photo Hugh Ardoin
As if the clocks of time lost all their hands And a moment of joy becomes suspended Frozen like bright colored Eskimos, the dancers smile The public reluctantly tries to steal the show As the sleepless nights take their toll Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 7
The crowd is a kaleidoscope where we reflect ourselves We are one in a million and yet we are a million The target, the arrow and the archer will meet at some point Beauty is a cloud running in a bright eye, the brush of a lash Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 5
Waiting for the train to roll or Charon the ferryman The tracks are the Styx and the Lethe between anger and forgiveness We follow the flow and keep a penny for the fare Life is a slow river and in our modern fears We have scattered help points along the way But they will not […]
Young black beauty in a skimpy outfit has second thoughts Protecting her beauty from the cameras and the gawkers Having second thoughts about her budding cleavage Does she know about the French 16th century poet, Pierre Ronsard And his famous words about youth that I will attempt to translate for you “O pretty young one, […]
The streets have ears and police cameras roam free Art is the outlaw, the vandal from beyond Hadrian’s wall We marvel at the anonymous and ephemeral works They carry the message of a culture, unlike the sterile ads A penny for our thoughts, a fistful of dollars for our soul Art by talented mural artist […]
A young beauty wrapped in a Bolivian flag Waiting to unfurl before our very eyes Red braids for a gun-toting pasionaria Revolution is turning heads, sending the world into a spin Wanted, dead or alive… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill Carnival Galleries Hits: 7
We cast ourselves in the private show of our dreams We act in our roles to an annoying level of perfection We search for our name at the top of the billboards Discolored posters of an elusive fame in the challenge of time We rattle the sabers of our ire and carry savage attitudes To […]
This is dedicated to Julian Assange An image is worth a thousand words In the deafening silence of the MSM Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates Of Emergency Gallery Hits: 10
The summer stole the tears from the clouds And the rainbows have become a symbol of the new But the world turns around to come back to the same place You may give the places and the beings other names Paint new colors and claim your rights to the throne Nothing really changes as human […]
Typical scene of an African alfresco kitchen Cooking for the family and selling on the street Giving away food for the street kids An organized bric-a-brac of colorful kitchen wares The poetry of a scene from the simple everyday life People may be poor by ‘western’ standards, but not proletary Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by […]