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Come what may if you come as you are Carnival is open to all, just bring your smile You may bring your personal shark to safely cuddle Imagination has no frontier, as long as it makes you happy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Red Caps but not the MPs from the army A beaming smile like a flashing light Perfectly matching the light in the eyes Moments of sheer joy, the spirit of Carnival Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Babe shoots a big smile with a sling and we go down in flames Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Spaceship on fire and falling fast From the cockpit, captain shouting on the intercom Brace, Brace! as her smile is growing bigger We are flying to the moon with no hopes of return The crescent of her smile […]
Emerging from the waves of a human sea like the lady on the shell A Black Aphrodite, the original Hathor of the Nabta Playa times Just landed on Westbourne Grove with a radiant albeit lethal smile She waves like a Queen at the bemused crowds as she walks away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
A wink and a twinkle, the gleam of a smile and a sign The selfie sign or “pīsu sain” that Japanese idols use The flap started here at the beat of a heart and the jungle drums It rose up to the sky and flew away beyond the clouds To grow into a hurricane at […]
As if the clocks of time lost all their hands And a moment of joy becomes suspended Frozen like bright colored Eskimos, the dancers smile The public reluctantly tries to steal the show As the sleepless nights take their toll Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Like the girl on the shell immortalized by Raphael A mermaid springs from the ordinary human wave Offering an extra-large smile and sparkling eyes to match Teetering on the edge of a dream in a dream You slowly let go and sink beneath the waves Hoping to lure her to dive after a drowning sailor […]
Like Aphrodite born from the sea a young black beauty emerges from the waving crowd With a necklace of feathers resembling water lilies that escaped from Monet’s brush The ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, the Lady of the Southern Sycamore She waits at the sacred tree to greet and give a present to those leaving this […]
Wearing ha big golden woven hairdo like a crown Not just a Princess anymore but a Nubian Queen So the troop of her subjects can rally behind the panache Scantily dressed to show her irresistible advantages We have to beg for a look and grovel for a smile All the way down Chepstow, the Amazons […]
The sweet scuba from Trinidad and Tobago Sailing through the crowds on a big smile, like a white skiff Wearing big goggles, a feather, a flag, and a few clothes Beyond the “come as you are” the disguise is the guise of reality This is the magic of the moment, when every girl is a […]