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Borrowing the horns from the “Jab” and the molasses from the cane A beauty celebrates the emancipation of her forbears In a grand style to remind the masters of the Judgment Day They will go where they belong with chains, molasses and devils May they unrest in un-peace… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 […]
Riding the waves of music, a mermaid swallows her cheeks A refrained smile or a secret message to the beholder Dancing Queen rocking at the threshold of a trance The Jab’s call at the blurred edge between Soca and Voodoo Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2015 Carnival Gallery
Like the stomping of all these people would break the Earth open An from the deep chasm flames will rise to Heaven in the sky above A furious volcano spewing swarms of fiery incubus and succubus Like moths attracted by the light, the angels will come fluttering to play with fire Joining the the fray […]
The temperature rises above street level as the crowd prance and dance A blonde girl in red with bright red lipstick and a mask laughs her head off She is covered with black molasses as the Jab celebration duly requires It is the moment of glee when we forget our woes until it all wanes […]
The “Me Too” spirit runs wild in the streets A black and white girl-girl twerk was once unthinkable Now the masquerade culture gets closer to the Jab’s realm So let’s be careless and let’s be free, Hell is just a place on Earth Twerk and dance into the night, tomorrow will never come Photo Hugh […]
A young black beauty shaking it for the good and the wicked This is the move in the heat of the ‘mas’ calling the ‘jab’ in you But what does matter for two days and three nights in a whole year So, for this special occasion with your pink glasses on, And your admiral’s uniform, […]
At the narrow junction of the Americas At the very mouth of an man-made estuary Panama City rises its hundreds of towers to the clouds From the Pacific shores, knives of steel and glass take a jab at the sky An down below in the shadow of the modern Parnassuses Sprawl the mean streets where […]
Looking for exotic adventures young white girls go black It is the open day mix and match, only at Carnival The purpose of Claudia Jones Cumberbatch was to bring communities together Notting Hill Carnival allowed to share the African and Caribbean cultural heritage Masquerade or ‘Mas’ is a Caribbean tradition to celebrate the slave’s emancipation […]
Three Musketeers drinking beer and up to some mischief The Musketeers were white and Alexandre Dumas was black Son of marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie And Marie-Cessette Dumas, a slave of Afro-Caribbean ancestry Like a Pre-Raphaelite painting, pale complexion and flowers in their hair The masquerade is about the Jab (Diable or Devil in creole) here […]
Out of control young black beauties shake and tease The beat goes on and every minute is a happening The spirit of masquerade is everywhere, bring the molasses Lured by the screams and the music, the Jab will be rising Bring the horns, the chains and the naked bodies… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 […]