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Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand Poem
In your eyes I've seen my past arise
Though the shaft decays in the time below
The afterglow blooms in your girlish eyes
Your life was my life when the moon was low
Curiosity lived in us and our stars
Darkness and fresh moon were our worshiped duet
They bartered sleep with nightingale and hearths
We danced and played among stars and crickets
When you swim in mud, hunt the sun's abode
Watch hawks return, and trade meat for a tale
It's life's requisite, and soon shall implode
A new light shall spring from the ember's tail
-The fire of youth, and shall erode your mind
In the dying glow womanhood is confined
Copyright © Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand | Year Posted 2015
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Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand Poem
As we raised ridges on reluctant lands
Our poor spirits wallowed on dwarfed harvest
Castle offered solace to her drudging hands
And she threw my sanguine name off her chest
In the king's arms she twit our blooming love
And rummage pride and diamonds at his feet
Such towering aloft drudge and ill-luck
That spread arms around the girdle of my wits
Her face neither subdue' darkness like sun spark
Nor blur the lustful glimpse of curious eyes
But like shy stars, she twinkles in the dark
And time would not her virtuous glows short-size
I pray passionate venom leaves her flesh
That my gray love might possess her afresh
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Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand Poem
If wisdom, so revered, accrue with books,
Then our leaders should be vastly nourished;
Their vast towers parade books of giant looks,
And numberless pages have they relished;
If wisdom arrives with foreign trips,
Then by reason of the lands their boots touch,
Like roses and dew, drops should clad their lips
And for this ravaged soil compel their watch
Earthly books only breed earthly knowledge;
Knowing without understand'ng is ill-luck,
For wisdom comes as understand'ng fledge;
Only on God's inspired Word does such stuck;
Crude spirit lives in man, only God's breaths
Accord him rich wisdom of a noble birth.
Copyright © Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand | Year Posted 2015
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