Vilynprakah

In Vilynprakah, Nadirah Alford taps into some of the most painful moments of human experience and contrasts them with deep longings for love, hopes, dreams, and high expectations. She leads us on a quest for balance and satisfaction, while providing us with courage and strength. Alford beautifully illustrates how the delicate human spirit can survive traumatic events and become more resilient. Poetry flows directly from the author's heart. Alford's emotions and thoughts pour forth in a passionate manner, as in her poem "Eight Pieces":

Eight Pieces

Just some girl who looks like her mother

But cannot live without her cover

Pieces that has been broken needs to come back together

Like glass or a crossword puzzle

Something full of mass

Life been tough, too much aggravation and no satisfaction

Attitudes flying and angers rising

Forced apart a puzzle of eight

Pieces scattered, I cannot live without them

My eight piece puzzle

Each piece is important to the other

But now they are separated

Years trying to set the pieces back together

The puzzle is like a life force with each piece missing it's weaken

It's tearing down flesh

It's tearing down blood

It's separating strength

Causing tears of flood