Best Ackee Poems
Jamaica's National Dish: Ackee and Salt FishBring the fried ackee well dressed
In fresh herbs and spiced
Blend in codfish, like a breast
Flamed suckled, sufficed
My tongue to taste this
Dream of bliss.
Joy!...
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Categories:
ackee, food
Form:
Epulaeryu
AckeeThere you are
Red, black, and gold
And in the wind
Your dress uplifted, the tease
Of hungry men appetite
For I have looked up your tree
With jealousy
At birds beaking your breast
And felt my tongue
Its passion flaming
Longing to lick your fatness
Like a plate.
O so intimate are my desires
From the plump...
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Categories:
ackee, food, nostalgia
Form:
Free verse
TabooTaboo
I can't keep my eyes off
Your rosy peach complexion
Just hanging in the warm
Haitian breeze...
So close but firmly shut.
Guarded by your spiky skin
As if to say wait for you to ripen
under the hot August sun.
To see you smile with
black pearls exposed,
To see you...
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Categories:
ackee, america, black african american,
Form:
Free verse