Nature Poem by Folayemi Akande

She is laden with beauty and comely
She wears all colours in wealth and glory
She sits world atop and valleys below
Richly her beauty to human bestow.
Should life exist devoid her one accord
No her, life in beauty cannot afford.
For she lends not but give to those who crave
Upon her forehead is our time engrave.
Eternized in the belly of the sea
She, never with a sore of ecstacy.
She threads our path like the pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and teasing as a joke.
Her height as taming as Margheritha
She plays her breath softly as orchestra.
Red as a rose that is inlaid with love
Green as a field, come season do not rough.
What shall I compare you, fairest nature?
The trees of the seas as green as pasture?
Fair are your eyes, the moon behind your veil
Breath is as thick as though the ocean sail.
We give no hail, yet rich in your beauty
What manner of praise shall fit you duely?
Your teeth, your face, flourishes as the ewe
Your scarlet lips, your mouth, where shines the hue.
I shall compare Nature forevermore
Forgive me poor earth, if I broke this Law.