Best Kampala Poems

A flight of birds
Flaunt their enormous wings
Spying the light blue skies,
Of a city protected by trees
Whose sheer leaves 
Dance with the January breeze
That hovers over
A people of different origins

A chrysalis unborn,
Wrapped tightly with love
Soon to flourish into a butterfly
This city is,
Of men and women
That toil...

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Perched on the shore of Lake Victoria 
Is Speke....
Of its beauty I will speak
In any place I shall be

Granite stones chopped into bricks
Layered one upon another....glued by cement
"Monomutapalian architecture perfected" on the shore of Lake Victoria...

Of its hospitality I will tell
To all l shall meet
"Welcome"...

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Be Aware of Kampala. Part I

Pavements are not for pedestrians but Boda Bodas, you will be knocked down.
Zebra Crossing are not for safe crossing unless you want to be asked if you are a zebra, at worst knocked before questioning.
Traffic lights don't mean anything, even...

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Great performance on the piano
And it gave her a Murano.
Last year, it was her soprano
And it grabbed the wealth of Ono.
Now wears Japanese Kimono,
As if there's no tomorrow
In their still quite safe Comorro
But with kimono not Chinese, 
Let alone by half Nipponese.
Soon shall she be...

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