Merthyr Tydfil Housing Association
September 2012 saw young people living in Merthyr Tydfil Housing Association properties work with celebrated local poet and author Mike Jenkins.
The group created poems inspired by healthy eating and living to link with the Abergavenny Food Festival. The young people were also offered the opportunity to visit the Abergavenny Food Festival free on 16 September courtesy of the Chief Executive, Kim Waters.
Abergavenny Food Festival is an annual event with true culinary crusaders. It is their mission to inspire, motivate and encourage you to experiment, be brave, try something new. The festival includes for masterclasses, tutored tastings and food talks, as well as over two hundred hand-picked exhibitors. Literature Wales has engaged with the project in the past five years holding events with Ric Hool, Jeff Rees, Daniel Morden, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and National Poet Gillian Clarke.
Poems/Riddles
My name is a colour
I’m round
I’m the colour of the sun
I taste great
I can be juiced
I can be small or big
There are different names for me
My name is a colour
What am I?
What am I?
I start off green
The colour yellow is next
Then I sprout into red
When I’m at me very best
I can be used with pastry
Or with any jam
But with cream
I am very tasty.
Guess
I’ve got a yellow, browny face
But if you cut me open
Which I would not like
I will be yellow
I am sweet, but can be sharp
You can turn me into juice
What am I?
Potion
A handful of green grass
A dash of sharp orange juice
A squeeze of blueberry juice
A slug of cherry juice
A squashed kiwi
A drip of pulped strawberry
A pint of creamy milk
Mix it all together
Swallow quickly.
Eat fruit and be healthy
Juicy pineapple
Chunks, cubes, slices and rings too
Sweet as sugar.
My Apple
I love eating apples
They taste so nice
You can cook them, peel or
Best of all EAT them
You can add sugar
Crumble or custard
The apple that I ate
Was sooo good.
My favourite Fruit
I have a bright red face
From the sun
I have a green house
I have spots
All over my face
What am I?
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