- Chicken
Dinner
-
- Mama
don't do it, please,
- Don
cook dat chicken fe dinner,
- We
know dat chicken from she hatch,
- She
is de only ne in de batch
- Dat
de mongoose didn't catch,
- Please
don't cook her fe dinner.
-
- Mama,
don't do it, please,
- Don'
cook dat chicken fe dinner,
- Yuh
mean to tell mi yuh feget
- Yuh
promise her to we as a pet
- She
not even have a chance to lay yet
- An
uyh want to cook her fe dinner.
-
- Mama,
don't do it please,
- Don'
cook dat chicken fe dinner,
- Don't
give Henrietta de chop,
- Ah
tell yuh what, we could swop,
- We
will get yuh one from de shop,
- If
yuh promise not to cook her fe dinner.
-
- Mama,
me really glad, uyh know,
- Yuh
never cook Henny fe dinner,
- An
she glad too, ah bet,
- Oh
Lawd, me suddenly feel upset,
- Yuh
don't suppose is somebody else pet
- We
eating now fe dinner?
by
Valerie Bloom
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Fruits
- mangoes
- and
ripe bananas
- jelly
coconut
- and
pomegranates
- jack-fruit
- and
stinking-toe
- june
plum
- and
naseberry
- sweetsop
- and
soursop
- 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
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Mammie's
Coo-coo and Callaloo
- Every
Sunday
- Mammie
cook coo-coo and callaloo
-
- Sometimes,
there's
- peas
and rice and salt-beef stew;
-
- I
don't know what I would do
- without
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo.
-
- Sometimes
there's
- chicken
with pumpkin and dasheen too;
- I
don't know what I would do
- without
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo.
-
- Sometimes
there's
- pelau,
and on the side spice manicou;
-
- I
don't know what I would do
- without
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo.
-
- Sometime's
there's
- poun
plantain with curried cascadoo;
-
- I
don't know what I would do
- without
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo.
-
- Mmmmm,
mmmmm I would like some now.
- Would
you like some too
- of
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo?
Yeeeeeessssss!!!
- I
don't know what I would do
- without
Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo.
by
John Lyons
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- Poems
published by Walker Books Ltd 1994
- in
the book "A Caribbean Dozen - A Collection of Poems"
- ISBN
0 -7445 -2172-6
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