Epilogue

Teacher. Karen Ferreira-Meyers, Institute of Distance Education, University of Eswatini

Poetry offers us a remedy in most of the circumstances of our lives: difficult episodes, happy times. It was in this state of mind that I received and read the collection of my colleague and friend Ilongo Fritz Ngale, entitled L’aube du printemps. Spring, each year, is a time of renewal just as much as dawn represents the end of the night, the start of a new day. Ilongo Fritz Ngale delights us with more than 70 poems, ranging from one page to six maximum. It addresses several themes, as it should be in a collection. The poet uses different techniques; he understands the poem mainly as a poetic work in verse, endowed with metrics and rhythm, varied in structure, melody and intonation. He thus follows all these “unknown poets” to whom he has dedicated his collection and whose origins date back to the time of ancient Greece.

Ilongo Fritz Ngale’s lyrical poems express the poet’s “inner self”, as well as feelings of love or friendship. His epic poems, combining fantastic passages with real elements, have religious and ideological themes. Everyone will appreciate poems, young and old, men and women, those with literary training and those without; there are poems for everyone in this collection. Some poems contain consonantal rhymes, others shine with their assonance rhymes. There are free verse poems, others are more fixed in their metric.

It is always nice to discover a new poet donating his talent to the world. Ilongo Fritz Ngale is sure to have found his voice as a poet: the brave, the beggar, the genius, the key man, the celibate thief, the ignorant self, the nether man, the sublime being. . The poet describes moments, moments, short or long. He asks us to reflect on the great questions of the human being, namely fate, fanaticism, despair, talent, instinct, intuition, hope, the enigma … We find ourselves ” on the edge of glory “,” on the threshold of freedom “,” in the heart of the five elements “,” in the land of shadows “,” in the land of crumbs “,” in the heart of the clouds “, in the” kingdom of Pegasus “.

The words of the poet himself express the energy, the incessant need to create which is the basis of his writing project:

“From morning to evening through the night

The crucible of burning creativity is polluted by ghosts without charisma

Miasmas of an unbridled imagination,

Shaken by spasms of a sensual frenzy with no way out,

Generator of heresies in all complacency

Stripped of all happy offspring. »(Extract from La montagne de sable).

 

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