IT HARMS! It harms! What? It is deadly! How? That heinous disease “I don’t know it” That incurable disease “Oh I know” That deadly disease “Oh I have heard of it” It can kill “yes Read More
Jan 022013
Poetry
Jan 022013
Their madness has a voice In the echoes of shatterbombs, And flying missiles mingling with Yuletide death rattles. Drunk With ignorance,they impersonate the devil And play God, Who said ‘Light be!’ And there was light Read More
Jan 012013
That sound again Listen! The wheezing whines of flying horses Hopping and trotting Marching on people’s heads At the command of crazy lords They are here again To serve the new emperor That eerie sound Read More
Jan 012013
Woke up with a smile. Life did not smile back. Vita, why don’t you pick on someone your size? You who takes men halfway and turns back. Leaving them to shuffle along till Mors might Read More
Jan 012013
I write I sweat thinking But I can’t leave it Cos I love it I write Always alone in the dark People ask me why I tell them Cos I love it I Read More
Jan 012013
(In memory of Léopold Sédar Senghor and the stranded African dream) Should I pronounce your name Naett? Is it still wisdom to declaim you Naett? Naett your name has become wild like the leaf of a Read More
Dec 312012
I search for you but i can’t find you i looked and a glimpse couldn’t see you keep eluding me. Where art thou, o fair maiden? You who bestows the gifts of words to Read More
Dec 312012
I wonder how we let them hijack Christmas, but they have done so and they haunt us with it. Our sober ceremony was hijacked and turned into a carnival, and we let them. A time Read More
Dec 312012
I’ve not seen an end without a beginning I’ve not seen a sunset without rising I’ve not seen death without life I’ve not seen rain without clouds I’ve not seen old age without youth I’ve Read More
Dec 312012
Its all lost, ship is sunk Innocence vanquished Regret for each love ballad, each desire expressed O! to be free of this burden called life Life that binds, Life that gags, Life that frees Perpetually Read More
Dec 302012
Blanketed puddle of inward stripes potholes of malicious whispers Rhythms of distant scandals Pledges of uncertainty and diaspora of pandemonium; Caress a perturb heart. Listen to its screams Listen to its angelic rancour Listen Read More
Dec 292012
Ever wondered what a drop of rain thinks on its way down to earth? Does it know so much, or only so little? Does it know that earth was from where it came? Or that Read More
Dec 292012
My fellow poor prisoner, We have been jailed for life But how so sweet our home gives, As we are chained in this hole. We go guided in the street Not to miss in the Read More
Dec 292012
The soup room was quiet and empty Empty and quiet but for little Kaita His mind grave and befuddled As the innards of his bowl glittered Reflecting as crystal his sunken cheeks More Read More
Dec 292012
Our Fathers taught us To repudiate the denigration of Of colonialism To repudiate the smiles of imperialism Our Fathers taught us That our language is sweeter than honey That our land is better Read More
Dec 292012
What happened to us, Our acquaintance and all? When we laughed and lived Like jolly birds in a nest. When we loved and joy even on many F(L)IGHTS Beyond fantasies and awe. What happened to Read More
Dec 282012
Hot in pursuit of great reward and daydreaming about a life of riches and wealth, Oblivious of the wrath hanging overhead, Blind to the danger of his mission, And riding furiously towards his death. Read More
Dec 282012
Life, in our nation, is a world of wonders With people of different manners You find the good, the bad and even the ugly You marvel at weird things you daily see Some so heartbreaking Read More
Dec 282012
THOUGHTS Thoughts in times of tyranny Keep awakening my jaundiced eyes Whispering into them, the realities I never knew Thoughts! Be my castle As I take a bow into it With glittering smiles and wishes Read More
Dec 272012
Jesus is the reason for the season, so are we All he did, he did for us All he was, he was for us He died so that we would live He died to redeem Read More