Tropical night
Last minute shopping before dark The golden hour is in the purple blue phase Tropical night will suddenly drop like a curtain Birds will go silent as the frogs pick-up the music The unnerving hum of hungry mosquito hordes Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery
From the far edge of reality starts another reality We sit watching sunset and replay our sugar-coated dreams Along Sunset Boulevards in some faraway place Pink stars lie on the floor calling strange names In the desert the stars still hang from the sky above in their own name And the magic moment of eerie […]
Time seems to slow for the dusk hours It is the reprieve from the hot day past until the next People take time off the time to chat and play Tropical night come suddenly, shrouding the city Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery
The elders, the young and the youngest gather for the end of the day They take a few minutes to watch the sky turn gold and then blue Night will fall at tropical speed, the sky will turn into a lapis lazuli canopy The flickering stars will send their mysterious messages light years away Patiently […]