This poem describes the tropical climate and seasons of Jamaica, which does not experience summer, winter, autumn, or spring like other places. Instead, it has periods of intense sunshine and rain throughout the year. The poem focuses on the beauty of nature in Jamaica during times of flowering mango and logwood trees, buzzing bees, swaying grass, and ground covered with yellow buttercups.
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We have neither
Summer nor Winter The personas country
Neither Autumn nor does not have the four
Spring. seasons
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We have instead the It has a tropical climate
days hot and wet all year
When the gold sun round.
shines on the lush
green canefields-
When the sun shines it
Magnificently.
is wonderful.
It has plenty of
sugarcane fields
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The days when the rain Sometimes it rains very
beats like bullet on the heavily that
roofs
And there is no sound You can only hear the
but thee swish of water sound of water flowing in
in the gullies
the drain
And trees struggling in and the sound of the wind
the high Jamaica blowing hard at the trees
winds.
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Also there are the days There are days when
when leaves fade from leaves fall from the
off guango trees
guango trees
And the reaped The cane fields become
canefields lie bare and empty after harvest and
fallow to the sun.
becomes pale brown
But best of all there But the best time is when
are the days when the the mango and logwood
mango and the
flower
logwood blossom
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When bushes are full Bees are busy looking for
of the sound of bees nectar and you can smell
and the scent of honey, the honey
When the tall grass The tall grasses sway to
sways and shivers to the blowing wind.
the slightest breath of
air,
When the buttercups Buttercups have grown
have paved the earth and covered the ground
with yellow stars with its yellow color