Soul
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 […]
Young Black Beauties in their shining armor The Knights of a midsummer dream coming in colors The fairies let loose to cast their spell in your troubled mind Their image will fall like a stone in the deep well of your soul Turning water into fire, until your heart is reduced to ashes Hugh Ardoin […]
Wild wild West London on Carnival days Anything goes as girls run out of control Music, drinks and laughter, the tinkle of the broken dreams The difficult labour of forgetting while remembering The spirit, the soul and the inebriation Counting the clouds until nine… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery Hits: 12
On the market days in Niamey On a deserted yet crowded place An apparition, the war between the angels and the fairies The onions, the sweet potatoes and the spices from the underground fires The turmoil of a broken inner peace Your soul is but a smoldering wreck A marooned starship… Hugh Ardoin The Niamey Streets […]
The ladies crossed the endless barren desert plains to attend a wedding Dressed in their best finery, a fluttering of colors like butterflies in the wind They wave to greet the passerby offering traditional cakes and sweets They are the wedding party moving in the desert they are the seeds of life I measure what […]
Empty jars and bottles, one of the Katako thriving businesses No more question of half empty or half full, this is the real optimist kit The buyer supplies his hopes about the future and its fulfillment Genies and other accessories for believers come as an option Crossing the desert carrying your soul in a bottle […]
Life is a straw swept away in the storm of time What we save now will ultimately be lost We must keep our bearings and choose the road There is no right or wrong road The decisions we make will tell The toll booth is at the end of the road We will pay with […]
Standing at the street corner and waiting for nothing Indifferent to the tide of humans riding back and forth Waves of a dry sea holding like mermaids to the un-drowned The flotsam and the jetsam, empty shells of all endangered lives Every soul is temporarily lost at sea until it reaches its final shore Chipping […]
Standing stranded like bungalows and beach houses after the sea took the last train to the coast Night will bring back the cohorts of dreams and mares behind the windows of flickering light that shelter the dwellers for the night but no more The morning will come too soon with its daily chores the incessant […]
On the roads of an unmapped world where the satellites remain silent A place with no understandable names to our pseudo-civilized system It is a blank space on the Google maps, because there is more to name than a geographical position, it is the history of a people the collective memory of their language and […]