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Best Ackee Poems

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Jamaica's National Dish: Ackee and Salt Fish
Bring 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
Ackee
There 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...

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Categories: ackee, food, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Taboo
Taboo

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...

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Categories: ackee, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse

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