Soca
Young Divas on the digital highway Pouting hipsters on hyper connection Talking to Venus or Mars in the din of Soca Reality has nothing to do with reality anymore Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2013 Carnival Gallery
Marching down Chepstow like an army of stragglers The dazed troops of Soca show signs of battle fatigue Rum is a friend and foe while weed is a smokescreen While music booms like the big guns of a battery And the helmet-wearer is still alive… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Devils of all colors follow the Carnival’s cortege Mourning the years gone by and celebrating those who may come A year will come and a year will go some will drop out of the life-line Become spirits that relive and revel in the music the soul calypso The young will join unaware that the souls […]