Pippa Marshall: Donkey

A figure of fun
but you are in on the joke.
Laughing and smiling,
your brown and grey coat
covered by a rainbow.

Dwain Bryan: Character of a Donkey

The donkey stands up most of the day and chews on grass
And at times makes a horn sound
People look at the donkey and know what its good for
Carrying things or taking you on a ride
And can be good to be a co-worker
You can put bricks on its back
And it will never lack
And be as strong as a bull
And usually be relaxed on call
Donkeys like carrots and probably any other vegetables
Feed them well and treat them well and they will be your best friend
And they can be loyal to you to the very end
Donkeys can be either grey or brown and if you’re
In the right place you can see many of them around
Don’t stand behind them as they can give you a kick
And that can be the end of it.

Eve Smith: Happy Jumping Donkey

Jump Jump goes a donkey
And a donkey can jump a long way
Happy Happy donkey all the way
Jump Jump for the donkey and you can be happy too
If it is a nice day you and the donkey will be happy and everybody will
like it just that way.

Dawn Barber: Donkey

I put my head on the fence
I am a donkey
I feel grumpy today
I want the carnival to come my way
It happens every year
Oh dear I want to hear the donkey sounds
I need to feel alive
Then I take my head off the fence
And shake my head
The carnival will be hear soon
It’s just a little late not dead.

Huma Butt: Donkey Character

My Character of a donkey.  Saying you have a donkey.
Then its lips take you to red strawberries. Then its blue hat is like blue sea. All know is you will know red lips, then blue hat.
Shining white teeth for a donkey. With teeth full to show off.
Character for my donkey taking place.
It’s thinking how cool to be a donkey.
All for rider to take off. Character of the donkey.
Sometimes you can have eyes that shine like the moon.
Blue sea eyes for this time and what fine eye lashes you have.
What a green mane I see. Seem it like mild green fairy liquid.
Your character shapes. All with re-cycling from kitchen.
All ready is from the kitchen into a donkey.
Character all out there for you to take. Taken for now is my donkey.
Seem all there. Nostrils are on the donkey. All character blooms in donkey. Ready for Kitchen Carnival 2025.

Robert Punton: Don Key

Have you met Don Key the fearless explorer
He and his forefathers and foremothers
Has accompanied every human exploration you can think of
They have carried us, supported us at every turn
On every hairy moment they have been there by our side
Always faithful, always friendly, forever steadfast, constantly strong
All they ask in return is a touch of kindness, a sign of compassion
Somewhere to get some shelter during a storm
For us to hold a hand of friendship in their time of need
Hopefully that hand will hold something tasty for them to treasure
Not a whip to punish them when we no longer need them
Look deep within their eyes see the love that radiates from within them
Surely, they deserve some love and compassion in return.

Eve Smith: Different Fancy Hats

I like fancy hats
They can come in lots of different colours and be bold and bright
And they look really nice to wear
Some people might stare
As you walk out with your fancy hat’s that’s there.

This is not the Endo: Hatpin Panic

I used a hatpin in self defence
Now lets watch outrage commence
At the idea of women protecting themselves
Now men fear they will be left on the shelves
But their reign must have been paper thin
If they can be replaced by a simple hat pin.

Glory Sengo: Fancy Hats

I was wearing a fancy hat with Andrey in Central Park Road
On the ground serving everyone to eat fruits
Then Hannah got a fancy hat
So did my next door neighbour Emily
My new neighbour Georgia
Then we were going out for a walk to meet
Tinkey-Winkey, Laa-Laa and Po
And they had got their favorite things too
Tinkey-Winkey has go a hat
Dipsy has got a fancy hat in black and white
Laa-Laas got an orange one
Po has got a pink and blue scooter
While we was going out for a walk.

Dawn Barber: Fancy Hats

I feel special when I put on my hat
All different colors of flowers
I could look at it for hours
I hope people notice me as I walk down the street
I hope they will notice my hat and not the shoes on my feet
I even have a big round box to put my hat in to keep it clean
My hat is my beautiful dream.

Dwain Bryan: A Fancy Hat

A fancy hat you put on your head
That fancy hat you put on when you go out
With a view of flowers and fancy dressings
If it is extravagant you may see a view of different fruits
Bananas, apples or a single pineapple
People look and they are amazed
And in a way it brightens up your day
You look different from the other people
And you stand out
And you shake it all about
People ask you where did you get that hat from
It was passed down through my generations
And I’m here to represent all nations.

Kathleen Jackson: Fancy Hats

When we go to the circus
And the people take their fancy hats off
And the clowns wet everyone
With fancy hats
And the donkey wees on it
And the clown picks the hat off of the floor
And everyone says take your hat off
And people say take your hat off
Take your hat off!

Robert Punton: Where did you get that hat?

Where did you get that hat? Where did you get hat fancy hat
They say if you want to get ahead, get a hat
Well if that is the case then you are miles ahead of me
Wearing that headwear
I suffer from a serve case of headwear envy
I am afraid to be seen in public with you
You portray such fine plumage, while I don this paltry cap
I have never felt so handicapped by my headwear.

Robert Punton: Fancy hats

I always associated fancy hats with fancy people
The rich showing off their prowess and privilege
At fancy places like Glorious Goodwood and Henley boating regatta
I guess that id down to my class upbringing,
Believing that only the rich and pampered can avoid to waste money
On such frivolous fancies, to sip Champaigne,
to dance the day away carefree, while poor people need to toil to survive
But poor people have the right to let their hair down too
The people of Trinidad show us how to Carnival ‘Ole Mas’ style
Fill the streets with colour, music and wonder
Costumes of wonderful colour and style takeover those streets
If only for a couple of days, people can party,
people can dream of better ways and happier days.

Huma Butt: Fancy hat for Donkey

Donkeys all going to have fun. Fun in Kitchen Carnival 2025.
All different will be. You will find one with a fancy hat.
I like fancy hat. You wear what you like.
The fancy hat will do for me to. All donkeys where surprised.
Surprised for donkey to. All for a fancy hat.
Why your hat is so fancy donkey. Donkey you look different.
Fancy hat makes me have style and joy.
Then all to wear fancy hat. Donkeys all go carnival.
Yes will wear my fancy hat. See you go there.
Yes elegant hat for you. Keep busy and have a great time.
Let happen out there. See you with fancy hat.
Donkey you are there and so different.
Different are all donkeys.
Just remembered Carnival 2025 and that donkey with a fancy hat.
Every year carnival happens. All for the kitchen Carnival 2025.
Ready are all donkeys and you catch the one with fancy hat.
Happens donkeys great day, for them.
Stick in mind fancy hat for donkey.

Huma Butt: Fancy Hat

It’s a windy day, wind, wind come.
All for the wind and blew my hat away.
Away it flow into the darkness of the night.
All of the night dark as it be. My fancy hat took me by surprised.
How nice, fancy hat. How nice looked, yes for my fancy hat.
All going well, left the house. Wind, wind outside.
Only blew my hat away. Its a full moon and dark as its been.
Only for the moon in the night sky. Going out in the night.
No fancy hat left. Blew, blew away and no sign of my fancy hat.
Never knew the weather. It’s fast that wind, never knew fast as can be.
Take my fancy hat flew into the night sky.
How nice fancy hat, flying in the night sky.
Not sure, where it take it. Fly, fly, enjoy the night sky.
Settle when its calm. Lost my fancy hat for know.
Where wind take my fancy hat? Calm, calm soon.

Eve Smith: Fancy Fancy Fancy Hats

Fancy Fancy Fancy hats
It is what it is and just like that
Fancy Fancy Fancy hats
They can be fantastic and won’t be missed.

Zillah Bosworth Coleman: To All the Others – About Fancy Hats

London.
You laughed at me
when I wore a fancy hat
to the Oratory garden party.

Auckland.
Putting things in the boot,
you said to him
I was ostentatious —
delusions of grandeur.

Spain.
We three walking through Torrevieja
to church in 32° heat.
You sneered at my sun hat —
You look like you’re going to a wedding.

Auckland — no fancy hats there.
London — only if you’re worth it.
Spain — never if you’re Spanish.

In the land of the setting sun,
Berber men wear wide straw hats
bright with pom-poms.
That’s for the men.
They walk proudly,
looking — by some standards —
quite, quite…

Time to look like a G —
or something from the H —
or your Great-Great-Grandfather.

Fancy hats stacked in Really Useful Boxes,
sloping toward the middle
of a clapped-out 1940s wardrobe.
I hid beneath a black lace veil,
first mourner behind
Richard’s final journey,
wearing my fancy hat.

Epilogue.
Richard liked fancy.
Richard liked hats.
Raced like the driver he was.
Boarding school at eight.
Passed on — choking outside
a notorious Sunday-night watering hole,
fifteen years ago.

The rain poured on the drive to Oxfordshire:
first to the lock-up with
the remnants of your life,
then to fetch the Ferrari,
towing it with the cheap Jeep.
Lost your way in Chelsea,
trying to find the car.

I took you to Age Concern,
baby in my arms.
And then I had to let you go.
One night pitched out behind my window
was enough.

All those top hats falling from Ascot rain,
fluttering down like roses,
like Alice
before she meets the Mad Hatter.

In my bedroom, it’s a long
time for a hat to wait..

Eve Smith: Carnival

Carnival full of fun
People walk rather than run
In their fancy costumes just for fun, that’s the one.

This is not the Endo: Carnival Colour

Paint my life with your carnival colour
Erase the memory of that monochrome lover

Fill the void with your glorious light
Take me away from the never-ending night

Echo in time with your rolling vibrations
Help me forget the woes of a nation

Paint my life with your carnival colour
And let’s get lost in painting one another.

Pippa Marshall: Carnival Day

Today is carnival day,
the preparations are complete.
We bring music with us
and ask you to dance with us
for today is carnival day.

Today is carnival day
with dancing in the street.
Our shadows will dance with us
and the light will dance with us
for today is carnival day.

Today is carnival day
with smiles for all we meet.
The world will make way for us
and the world will dance with us
for today is carnival day.

Jay Joshi: Carnival

Carnivals are beautiful festivals of colourful costumes and gorgeous cultures and the smell of food fills the air and the stunning rhymes of the music fill the souls and feet of those people who love to dance at these wonderful specifics of radiant carnivals.

Glory Sengo: Central Park Road Carnival

When I was in Central Park Carnival
Dancing on the road
On the street
Then we were dancing to the music
We were dancing to the cat walk dance
Then we were singing
We were singing
When there’s no getting over that rainbow
I was singing
When there’s no getting over that rainbow
And we were dancing more
And I went to get chips and fish and a drink
And also sugary doughnuts to eat
It was fun
Very fun.

Glory Sengo: Carnival

I’m going to the Carnival with my group
I’m going to celebrate festival carnival with my friends
I start walking around with them
I start dancing to the music
And start going on the bouncy castle
And start eating and drinking
And go home.

Dwain Bryan: Carnival

Those people of culture
Hats
Dresses
Colour
Bold
Confidence
Swagger
Passion
Determination
Energy
And cool spirit
Many carnivals I’ve been to
And every time I’ve enjoyed myself
And I find out my passion
And into my action
The beating of the drums
As the man uses his strength and beats away
We travel though many streets and alleys
And people look in amazement
They seem to act like they’ve never seen a carnival before
And some of them drop their jaws
The passion and energy is amazing
And you just can’t break away
And you realize you are there most of the day
It gets a little late and things seem to quite down
And in your mind you feel a bit home bound.

Dwain Bryan: Carnival

I plan on going to carnival this year
With my friends and peers
Ready for that carnival vibe
And I’m going to be so alive
People drinking and eating
And doing you know what
Floats of music
Banging out load music
Playing your favourite songs
And you feel lively and strong
There is much to eat and drink
But people have to pay nothing
It’s free these days
You grab your patty and Jamaican beer
And sit down in a comfortable place
Which could be anywhere
The party vibe is always there
You see many ladies and men
But the ladies stand out
And in my eyes they are shaking it all about.

Robert Punton: Carnival Queen

The carnival is coming to town
Put aside your woes,
Let’s give joy and happiness a go
Put on your fanciest hats, your brightest most colourful outfits
Dust off your drums and whistles, let’s make some noise
Take over the streets, drive away the motor vehicles
It is time to free your minds, free your spirit from the daily drudge
If you are inclined partake in some strong spirits
The only competition we are interested in, who can make the loudest noise
The brightest, the loudest there
Shall be crowned our carnival King and Queen
Our most majestic couple who will share the throne for the coming year.

Zillah Bosworth Coleman: No Carnival

I heard the desert scream an
old-woman-painting
Lie down
Like a starfish
Splayed out in an
imprint in the sand

The rivers thirst
People running
Fleeing and desperation
Parched and burnt
by sand and drought

Hue after hue
They reached the mountain
And then there was another
Again, 40 days and 40 nights
never to reach me

You wonder?
Why am I so lucky?
Am I next
As the bell tolls
and the hospital notes
are freed –
259 pages of intimacy
And the whole world will
see what I had for
breakfast and hear
my private fears

‘I feel like I’m fading away’
‘I am dying but
I know I am not’
What curse
What karma
What previous life
caused this?

To make old-woman-painting
weeping
No holding hands in ritual
carnival, no carnival, no carnival, no carnival!
Ochre over Ochre
Thirst only for more thirst
Earth’s heart breaking
with cracks at the
Riverbed
Why do I get to lie
Peaceful in my green
Water gently caressing my
Shores
Dots of sheep feeding
happily on my breast
Why?

Huma Butt: Magic Clouds

Clouds and clouds, all moving in the sky. Sky full of clouds.
Clouds all going on a journey. Where will the clouds take.
Take along, if you want a ride. Ride may you will, yes why not.
Where and where the ride take.
Enjoy ride on the cloud, what ever next.
Next to the clouds and more and more.
Bumbling away to make more ride.
Clouds and clouds in all direction. Direction all over, for the ride.
Ride on a cloud and then lets go for journey.
Journey to Carnival. Clouds and clouds want to go to.
They know of Carnival. They coming for the ride.
Clouds go for the Carnival. Riding along to get there.
Only some get there by Cloud. Safe and clouds know.
Ride with clouds, take you there.
They all moving and will enjoy Carnival.

Huma Butt: Carnival 1

It takes time for the Carnival to come. Takes away a piece of me.
Sad when last of the Carnival. Sad and quite will be again.
Takes time, then when it comes. All will seem there for the Carnival.
A blink of the time gone. A blink and it will be back again.
Never think the end. End is the end. A time and place for the Carnival comes. Carnival get all together. Together and together for the Carnival.
It’s not the end and it will go forever. Ever in time, never Finish.
Let the Carnival begin and not end. Never ending Carnival.
All and all for the Carnival. Time and place, the Carnival is on the go.
All for the move of the Carnival. Where will it take you.
You think not, never ending. All you want is more and more.
More of the Carnival taking place. All time and place, you waiting for.
All at Carnival. This Carnival is forever and ever.

Huma Butt: Carnival 2

Let’s dance and dance with the music. Music goes well at the Carnival. Very well for the dance. All will be dancing.
Music continued then all to the beginning. Allow you to get there.
All then Carnival began. Began and loved all dancing.as it began to.
Ready as can be. All the music will allow you to dance.
Away till the last sound comes through. Through dance with the music.
Allow yourselves to follow to a beat of the sound.
Dance away as music comes. Carnival there and whatever you do
Do with style, do with the music. Do and do till the music gets you to the Carnival. You will be dancing and all dancing. All with the Carnival.
Dance with or let yourself go. Step back and its Carnival time.
Time of dancing and music will play. Play the music and dance away.

Huma Butt: Carnival 3

Carnival and Carnival. There and then the Carnival.
Carnival and Carnival then. Now then for the Carinval.
There and all at the Carnival. There and magical you see.
Magical then and now there. Then at the Carnival.
Where magic all there. Then you let the magic in.
Then out of magic as all is quite.
Quite and magic of the Carnival comes to light.
Light out and let all have magic come
Come, come and takes you to more music of the Carnival.
All starts quite then the magic of Carnival comes to light.
Alight all going. Light for all. All the lights in the Carnival.
Let the light come and go. Go and go at the Carnival.
What ever comes. Take the magic all at the Carnival.
Carnival and Carnival magic all around. Around and round you go.
Go and the magic stays. Stays to a magic place, all at Carnival.
There and now magic all for you.

CARNIVAL DANCING