ROMANCE: "THE BRIDE" BY KABEDOOPONG

Your unadorned beauty brings forth the dawn,

Golden as the sun, shines your wedding morn;

Unyielding like a sunflower in bloom,

Radiates warmth, dispels impending gloom.

Your face, a canvas, for the heavens to design,

A beauty unmarred, truly divine;

In your eyes, glimmers an immortal tale,

Alive with love that will forever prevail.

Your words, an opus of wisdom and grace,

A sweet serenade that brightens a stolid face;

Born of virtue and honour pristine,

A heart of gold, for all layers unseen.

Deeds not of grandeur, but of love pure,

In the hearts of your children, you're demure;

A moon among the stars, you innocently gleam,

For love is the fount of your cosmic beam.

© KABEDOOPONG PIDDO DDIBE'ST

- Uganda

The poet persona praises a new bride. The voice of the poem gives the beauty, peace, wisdom, imitable character and others which is seen in this woman. Thus, portraying how a bride is meant to be.