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Young West Indian beauty shows the flag Small snake shaped islands East of Puerto Rico Understandably rare flag on the Carnival With a 17 000 plus population only She came snaking in the sunset with a big smile Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Westbourne is Carnival’s Sunset Boulevard Where diosas and shooting stars play debutantes Riding in the sunset is the dawning of a glory Their name in letters of bold on the billboards Dreams of fame that last as long as the avenue Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Temperatures rise and twerk lines start on the sidelines A feverish craze like an irresistible urge to rub their bodies Be it a tree, aman or another woman, to twerk is primordial The frenzy follows the music and the dazed individual’s whims Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The sidelines are abuzz with all forms of life A quasi-jungle habitat with its peculiar fauna Mom takes her young one for a lesson of life Close review and dual controls for a first flight Solo will come soon enough Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Dancing in the streets, dancing everywhere She is the universal dancer, the Terpsichore of Soca And the crowd stops to watch in awe, wish they would dare Their feet are tickling but their mind is completely numb Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Away from the Western selfish materialist societies Where confinement is made possible by individualism Where a two persons gathering becomes a legal limit And lockup has a meaning only because of the locks Exceptionalism is the disease, fortunately less contagious Self-isolation is just an acute form of Narcissism This ignorance may save the ‘invisible’ part […]
Multicolor technicolor fairy on Chepstow Striking like swift lighting, killing softly with a smile Golden jackboots, like them bovvers but silk black skinned Hermes girl or Aphrodite, what message have you for us ? We’ll take both Love or Death as good news, if we have to let you go… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
A sudden lull in the slow procession of the music rigs Attendants and performers two by two move to their meeting points To gather around their favorite Mas Band trucks when they’ll start moving again It won’t be long before the tintamarre picks up and the crowds shake and dance Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
Divas play the Playas in front of the Plaza Boys in blue play wallflowers on the Plaza Wall Dry cleaners & laundry says the sign on the closed shop Of the boys or the girls, who will take you to the cleaners ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery