cape verde

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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