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A Caribbean poem

Fruits

mangoes
and ripe bananas
jelly coconut
and pomegranates
jack-fruit
and stinking-toe
june plum
and nase-berry
sweetsop
and sour-sop
tamarind
and jimbeli
cane-juice
and coolie-plum
star-apple
and custard-apple
navel orange
and wild cherries

fruits everywhere
brimming with life
spread out in front
of market women
buy some
and experience delight

By Opal Palmer Adisa

Ideas for Literacy/English activities

From the Go Bananas! online resource

From Cool Planet - Oxfam's website for teachers and young people: www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet