Waiting …because, A Savage Need fills the mind, the heart, the body, Violently tight, deep inside, still, can’t break through, to the other side. …because, the other side seems happy, filled with smiles, in their minds, their hearts, I think, ‘Why can’t I break through to the other side?’ Yes…this woman she’s a child in […]
Category Archives: Poetry
You I Love -I’ll Always Remember
When those we love are gone, The pain like a deep hole, inflates so wide, A new world starts, one without, a world alone, Still…no one knows or understands, This pain, how it yawns ahead like an abyss… When those we love are gone, One, Two, then Three years, We think of them, heart […]
From the Garden
See Me
See Me Would you see me, If we had the same skin? Would you hear me, If I talked like you? Would you get me, If my ideas were yours too? Would you hold my hand, If I offered to hold yours? Would you dance with me, If I listened to your music? Would you…., […]
Love like Fruits & Veggies
Love like Fruits & Veggies My Sweet Potato, Sugarplum, Honey and strawberry, I think of nothing but you, My delicious pumpkin, So soft, like a papaya Oh you make me, crazy like a lemon, I simply can’t forget you, My wonderful Arrow root lets meet in the garden, That place where the bananas grow. […]
Mint & Spice
Mint & Spice You sat next to me, In the bus heading home, Your scent; Mint & Spice, made me wish you’d move closer. Your thigh brushed mine, firm, strong: made me wonder, about you. Are you Strong? Are you firm…in your decisions? The bus went too fast, Rocked us all over a bump, I […]
Rain on Me
Rain on Me Fat drops, land on my face, Cold kiss, sharp kiss, Startling, refreshing I shiver; Minutes pass, I’m soaking wet. Still, the drops fall, Unrelenting. I want it to stop, Wish it would stop, But the rain turns gentle, the cold wetness comforting, that pattering; Drops dancing on each and every surface, Like […]
this African Girl
This Girl, she stands, ready to face the world. She stands, with her head held high, facing you, facing me, facing countless faces. In a crowd, a class, on the street, she stands, up to judgment, against the hate, despite the constraints, holding on to the support, she finds in those who value her the […]
Somewhere Else by Mathew Shenoda – Poetry Review
Somewhere Else by Mathew Shenoda From the river Nile to the teeming streets of Cairo, from the indigenous, pre-Islamic Egyptian Coptic civilization to an America struggling with its fear of the Arab world, Shenoda’s poems recall the sacred traditions of an ancient, enduring culture as they widen the political conversation surrounding ethnicity, pan-Africanism and pan-Arabism. […]
Poetry Week Ends – Recap
Poetry Week Ends! I’m kind of sad about that because there are so many poems. I found so many that I don’t think I could reach the end in the next five years. There are a lot of poets from Kenya out there, quietly posting their work and talent on their blogs. Which made me […]
