The Green Times in Jamaica

Guango Tree

H.D. Carberry's visually exquisite poem," Nature",was written during those heady years after the 1930s when the winds of nationalism was strong and Jamaica's modem political and labour movements were about to put out shoots.

'Nature' is a poem that reflects self-discovery and self-awareness about Jamaica; put in the best of verse.It delves in things familiar;things we have taken for granted.

Logwood Tree

Let us appreciate the creative flair of H.D. Carberry.

NATURE

We have neither Summer nor Winter
Neither Autumn nor Spring.
We have instead the days
When the gold sun shines on the lush green canefields-
Magnificently.
The days when the rain beats like bullets on the roofs
And there is no sound but the swish of water in the gullies
And trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds.
Also there are the days when leaves fade from off guango trees
And the reaped canefields lie bare and fallow to the sun.
But best of all there are the days when the mango and the logwood blossom
When the bushes are full of the sound of bees and the scent of honey,
When the tall grass sways and shivers to the slightest breath of air,
When the buttercups have paved the earth with yellow stars
And beauty comes suddenly and the rains have gone.