Global Food Basket Poem by Dela Bobobee

A mango African open orchard I ate
a wayside the seed carelessly tossed
passing by again I saw a bud in eke
with no tendering as a star crossed
but the rains and the sun nurtured
its nutrients from the mother earth
where on earth can this be captured?
Africa, with its caring warm hearth

where nature’s effervescence is apt
its plentitude is also fruitless implicit
this land of plenty is barren till adapt
to the paradox of wisdom so explicit
but when greed suffocates the greenest
all roads leads to this land of poverty
where greed stunted growth in honest
will be the same to replenish property

Africa will assuage this global hunger
in granaries to feed the world in blunder.

Written by
Dela Bobobee