Red
It is a battle at the top as to who will be the queen of queens Who is the fairest and get the golden apple from the Hesperides Garden They were called in faraway times the daughters of the evening Red is the official color the real revolution, be it for only one night Photo […]
She dances with the red bus, putting her hands up in the air A Jamaican flag in one hand a bottle of strange brew in the other She dances away with her strange partner, beauty needs no mirror The music plays loud and she plays with the music as she waves and weaves away Hugh […]
The River Niger is a blue green serpent in the desert It leaves a small track with only few greens around Two women walk against the flow to their destination Small dots of vibrant colors int the giant landscape Red iron ore and yellow millet chaff bring an alien perspective A solitary tree survived the […]
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, […]
In a land of red on red as the iron ore comes to the surface Women dressed in red walk the long miles under the sun Carrying the children and the payloads, they move undaunted There is no task or weather to stop them in their tracks I always imagine ancient people living on Mars […]
Red is the Christmas color, and for Santa and his little big helpers It seems that they go by pairs to offer the comfort of a happy holiday A day to wallow in food and candy or to rest on a soft pillow The colors meet in the prism of light to spread like a […]
The shards of our broken hearts are turning to rusty red The reflections of a long dead love shine in the window We are the rotting craft that once flew and sailed Now sinking deep into the Dead Sea The salt from your lips has dried on my lips Now you can see my blood […]
A nineties vintage Toyota Starlet taxi speeding along a hard road in Niamey It seems that some time-warp spilled the worn-out machines on the roads, like a swarm of wingless locusts Survivors of a teleporting accident wile shuttling to and from the Enterprise Dr Spock can you read me? The background is all rusty sand […]
In our suburban wastelands where machines are returned to the wild to die A herd of red buses gather under a metallic tree in a jungle of plastic and steel Beasts huddled in the fear of the iron-monger, waiting at the watering hole To slake the thirst of their of old their growling motors at […]
As the long poem languishes about the final defeat of the Napoleonic armies Victor Hugo reminds us of the moments of glory and the vanity of human ambitions and purposes The victories and the bricks that built this shaky empire now lay in ruins in the sombre plains of Waterloo under the frozen watch of a […]