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Baia Dos Tigres, Angola – A Poem
Baia Dos Tigres, Angola
© Garth Dutton 2010
I can envisage a bay
with shifting tides and currents,
and tiger stripes of sandbars.
The name suggests to sailors
that they sail into the bay
as one would walk into a jungle
in which it was known
there were tigers.
The name also shows
that the Portuguese Navigators
knew what tigers were
long before they reached India.
Cape Verde – A Poem
Here is a poem that is part of a series of poems inspired by Portuguese place names on the African coast
Cape Verde
© Garth Dutton 2010
After the long, long sail
down the Sahara Coast,
they came to a Cape that was green.
Not just green,
but verdant green.
So green,
it was like an emerald
at the edge of the sea
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