We have neither Summer nor Winter Neither Autumn nor Spring |
Jamaica does not experience the four seasons. |
We have instead the days When the gold sun shines on the
lush green canefields - magnificently |
It is a tropical climate with lots of sunshine... lush - green |
The days when the rain beats like bullets on the roof |
It
is
a tropical climate with lots of heavy rain. |
And there is no sound but the swish of water in the gullies |
gullies - ravines, ditches, drains - water flows rapidly in the ravines swish - a rushing sound indicating the water flows rapidly |
And trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds |
it
can
be very windy in Jamaica; and the trees are blown about by the
strong winds |
And
there
are the days when leaves fade off guango trees |
there are also days when the trees shed the leaves |
And the reaped canefields lie
bare and fallow to the sun |
there are also days when the canefields are bare after they have been harvested The
canefields
are fallow; they are not suitable for planting / uncultivated |
But best of all there are days when the mango and the logwood blossom When 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 |
the last lines describe the days which the poet deems or considers as beautiful - the days when there is no rain / the rains have stopped, the days when there are fruits and flowers in the trees, the days when bees fly and produce honey and the days when the fields are filled with bright flowers |