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Brown Fields

 

Brown fields
The trees are bald.
Then they grow pellos.
Flowers are their hair.
The flowers smell like
fresh air.

The flowers drop off
and little green balls appear.
They get larger and larger.
The balls change colors
to a yellowish orange.
It almost looks like a small sol
shining at you.

It's time to pick the oranges.
You need clippers, a moral, and a ladder.

It's hard work.
The moral gets heavy.
Finally you get to dump the moral
into the bin.

You get real thirsty in the brown fields.
You can pick a naranga.
You peel and take a bite of the naranga,
it tastes like sweet water.

 

Spanish/English words used

Pellos-hair
sol-sun
moral/a bag that hangs on your body
naranga-orange

 

Poem written by Abel Grade 3
Poem inspired by In My Mother's House by Ann Nolan Clark
Alta Elementary School
Reedley, CA

-- May 2000

 

 

 


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