Poetry--By Vivian Belford--Nigeria

Poetry

It all begins in a vision

Engraved in creative minds

Quietly it nags at our mindfulness and

Slowly it comes alive in print

True stories in hues of earth, in light and dark

This love of words, though secretly untaught     

                                                  

From old torn newspapers and wrinkled hints

Of puzzles, crosswords and conundrums

Has publicly wedded the he(ad) and he(art) in

A ceremony of prose and paradise of poems

Deeply immersed, submerged and engrossed

Held spellbound by your skill and flair

Your artistic force, pull and flow

Teases our hands to speak in ink

For our minds is stripped of fear

When we lay the soul bare on white sheets

Repeatedly slaked in unspoken words

And unabashedly culminated in candid rap

Vivian Belford is a freelance writer by day and an aspiring actor by night, she started writing professionally in 2013. Some of her work has been featured in Indian periodicals, Tuck magazine and Creativity webzine. She is currently starring in her own movie "living and dying with a smile." She writes from Abuja, Nigeria.