Living in the 21st Century (9): Fashion Model

Louis Egbe Mbua


She is the one with the smooth hair silky

So created as to flow down as smoothly

As coated feathers of the plumed doe-eyed;

Black and sparkling as though in painted flocks

By the ambidextrous hand of the art skilled

In placed talents on the Sistine ceiling

Chapel of angels and heaven it shows.

Her temple is a pure workman’s sleight hand,

The colour of the face of pure worked bronze;

Her eyes the colour of the hair the same,

Round, perfect clear charms like a disc fitted

Into an Egyptian painting plastered

On the walls of the palace of Pharaoh,

Her nose like the sculptured end to follow

Pointing down as opposite to the end

Of the Empire State buildings glory blazed,

Her lips dripping with full nurtured honey;

And voices from the lips like an angel

Descending from heaven’s gift to all men,

The height of proportion has she in blend,

And the mystery of beauty of ratio emphasised

From head to toe, her beauty surpasses

All women on earth, in fashion famous

Waist as slim and bosom in magnitude

As though carved off the moulded human clay,

All as pleasing as was Rachel of old,

In form and manners nature exquisite

For beautiful women always return.