The River Afar Off. (An Original Poetry Plus Poetic Analysis And Literary Appreciation)

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The beginning,
a savour, smouldering
cooking like impatience!
scattered on eager plates.
the heart is a nincompoop,
led astray by fragile things
for the essence of Genesis
is like a new wine
waiting to be gulped
but spilled on undeserved floors

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We're left alone,
furthest into the deep!
as the last hour struck!
a howling of wolves
signalling hopelessness
empty baskets
with kempt hoes
and sparkling axes
for the day was pregnant
but now, we wait to wait no more.

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Love and dagger!
a Siamese twins
that cloaks the future
like a spreadsheet that masks
rotting things
we see a land
flowing in milk and honey
but sometimes, the eyes
is crawling with spectacles
that ushers deception.

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In earnest,
we're come too quickly
to harvest
for our efforts are still tender
as young cicadas
with fragile stems
and our baskets filled to the brim
with obvious disappointment
we have seen too soon
and we're tongue tied
to tell the tales.

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POETIC ANALYSIS AND LITERARY APPRECIATION

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The River Afar Off, is a poem that entails the disappointments of the poet persona over doing something too quickly and at the end, didn't achieve a fruitful result. The poem details the struggle for relevance, the deception of the opportunities we see as being favourable because of the things we see on the surface. The poem speak of doing things too quickly and it basically focus on harvesting and planting and how our efforts tend to turn out when we don't nurture them well.

The River Afar Off Shares blistering details as to the how failure feels when we underestimate how difficult it can be to achieve success and the poem is like a warning, a kind of admonition to people who embark on a journey without preparing for the outcome of any eventuality. The glitters outside definitely aren't gold and when we look deeply we Might just understand this

The poem regularly is a four Stanza poem that shows a free verse Patten, however heavily rhythmed as a result of the constant alliteration or the assonance, it's not really rhyming not possessing a rhyme scheme, but it embodies figures of does speeches like hyperbole. The use of simile and metaphor was usual and the imaginative aspect of the Imageries allows a reader into the realm of the poet persona.