Long Granaries Poems

From my lowly bachelor’s house
Proudly christened ‘Embassy Fair’
I woke up to the chirping of birds
On the trees above and across the vale
And the riverine bushes in-between
I woke up to the crowing of cocks
And the mooing...

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behold now everything on this earth;
    the fields with abundance of grain,
    palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
    the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that...

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I make haste to the earth 
And anoint its rebirth
When my mother, the cloud, is above, 
And then mildly caress 
The irradiant dress
Of the hills with immaculate love. 

I descend upon leas 
And respond to...

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A civil war flared up and raged on for freedom
Unequal it was, this bloody war for honour and secession
The natives renamed their land Bangladesh
Inviting anew the wrath of a desperate West

The army’s presence then, was...

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After scary Halloween and its ghoulish pranks
November dawns with all-saint’s and all soul’s day
Carrying a pious note in the balmy wind
Along with the haunting memories of our dear departed

November parades herself in a riot of...

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Memories go back to my vanished youth,
And I reminisce clearly my master’s beautiful farmhouse.
With its granaries full of corn and wheat.
He was once a zealous farmer working day and night,
With me- as his inseparable companion.

We...

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I am tire of being a Kenyan,
I didn't intend to say this,
But allow me to talk about it.
From the time I was young.
I have learnt how to be patriotic.

I am tired of being a Kenyan.
Not...

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God-endowed resources present
     grasses serving as pasture haven 
          with vegetable terraces for well-being nourishment
       ...

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Seven cows, fat and plump,
Feeding in the reed grass,
Emerging from the Nile.

Seven cows, ugly, thin,
Stood beside for a while,
Swallowing the fat cows up!

Seven ears, plump and good,
All growing on one stalk.

Seven ears, blighted, thin,
Swallowing the...

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There is no labor described as low and unworthy doing
nothing man does to earn genuine living makes one a dog
those who sit on rolling chairs and talk through wise gourds
 are brain- bees who ...

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Majesty, royalty
         such dignity, a rarity
Oh Purple,
         the color of 
        ...

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I want to trust in other people,
That could be my biggest flaw,
Like God the Father, I am dreaming
All will come to love His law.

It’s sad to see so many people 
Bogged down in their Hellish...

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I live as orphan but I am not orphan
I live with mother but she is no mother
Her fingers cannot  feed me, her child
As she is a mother without breasts

Whenever visitors come she gives all
And...

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Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
When my heart bled and spilling out
On madness, loathing minds awry
Lead to crime where love fading out.

On the streets where striplings beseech
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
For some...

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There In Morning Sun, Hope Circled Enticing Dreams


From inside gaping jaws, golden honey slow drips
its taste as if bitter hell came with deadly judgment
life turned into a bevy of sunken ships
with the dried up bones...

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they say 
your thoughts
create your world
my third world was birthed
when the white storm
swept across our homesteads
do i get to recreate it
by simply thinking
of meadows and prairies
crystal jars
of milk and honey?

i think of thorns
pricking her beautiful...

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O, Chief Spirit,
thank you for the harvest
that fills our granaries
to the brim.

Thank you for the blue sky
that fills our souls with dreams
and beauty.

Thank you for the waters
that replenish us ceaselessly.

Thank you for the rain that...

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I know I’m  bat and bird
other birds chorus to me
hunger, hunger, hunger
Do we have any factory
to manufacture hunger?
look at  birds kingdom
they live healthy lives
in the bush they are okay
Does the bat feed them?
If...

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