Fairtrade Fortnight poetry competition winner is from Clifford (From Hereford Times)

Fairtrade Fortnight poetry competition winner is from Clifford

8:30am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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CLIFFORD Primary School pupil Patrick Morgan came top in a poetry competition arranged by Fairtrade Hay.

The year one student’s verse about bananas won him the top spot, a book of poetry and a book voucher.

Julia Roberts, who helps run the scheme in local schools to mark Fairtrade Fortnight every year, said: “Our judge chose it because it is well written, has a clear Fair Trade statement and also has a sense of fun – it made her and all of us smile.”

Mel Prince from Hay’s Poetry Bookshop decided on the winner and also donated the book prize.

Patrick’s winning poem:

The Farmer’s bananas are as yellow as the sun

And I really like them as much as my mum

The people come and say yum yum

And buy the bananas as yellow as the sun

They pay a fair price so the farmer can buy rice

And build his house so it looks very nice

I sit at home eating my banana thinking

Of the farmer who farmed this banana