Monday, May 15, 2023

Innocent Inalegwu Alifa

Garlands


Who is in the mirror to see the face

emblazoned on my memory today

as yesterday meets today face-to-face

to reconcile history’s flaw by the way

                                           

of nature’s good inspired by endless grace

before faces with garlands of sweet bay

extolled for acts of poetry on life’s race

reflecting on life’s mirror day by day.

 

The face in the mirror has swollen eyes

on a head above the shoulder of pain

carrying a burden without a prize

 

seen in the mirror as gifts for the eyes

for tongues to sing and ears to hear of gain

in figures of quality above size.

 


 

Resuscitation


The price of excellence is not the prize

shining more than gold under the sun’s ray;

it’s not in the dimensions of the size

of work written in words that speak and pray

 

for the end of cov-19 whose one prize

is the destruction of the world by day;

health’s resuscitation against night’s vice

before the entrapment of prize one day.

 

The sun and the moon shine against the gloom

hidden around the walls of the whole world

where to live is to be around the edge

 

and to rise above the snares of world doom

is not what passing feeling and a word

can make the world not to be on edge.

 

 

 

Fecundity


The prize of living lies in-between birth

through the cradle and not mortality

which opens the floodgates of joyous mirth

in this life and in immortality.

 

Life flows like the ceaseless flow of firth

into a river of fertility

where the end meets the beginning in birth.

The glory of human fecundity

 

is praised on the altar of human love

which no drop of ink can show its splendour

through all the world of human words and grace

 

because the love of Adam is God’s love

shown in human faith lost in love’s candour

if not vanity will be of life’s race.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Patrick Thomas Jeffries

REBIRTH   In Lilac  thirst and  breath Love is  Life’s first  dance with Death The project  to collect   as we ad mire what the  pond   does...