Long Kenyan 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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The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein 
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated, 
representing the...

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Black Blood was used to paint a picture on a Black Wall. Black Blood was used to paint. Black Blood. Blood bought from the very same people who stood side by side with you 25...

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I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy to summon the smart, south to Saturn where I rest...

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*IF* THIS IS *DEMOCRACY* THEN *I DON'T WANT IT*

If democracy means gunshots at night
Fires in the streets
And the women and children cry in screams 
Then I don't want it

If democracy means
Queuing in peace with strangers...

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I remember meeting you many years ago
That warm Sunday afternoon 
I remember the love I got from you, your mum, your dad and your sister 
Like an avalanche you guys embraced me with greater love...

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Open Letter to you,

MY LOVELY HATE SPEECH
I hate my speech today, yesterday and the day dust rises.
I was there opening my eyes carelessly, smiling like an idiot
I was gazing shamelessly, walking like an idler without...

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Do i have to first change my name to 
Poet Destroyer to top the list,
Or add my all three names like 
Carol Sunshine Brown to come second?
Is it wearing sun glasses like Andrea Dietrich
In my...

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Africa Kills Her Sun in Ken Saro-Wiwa short story
So far the greatest short story  i've ever read
Where the blackest pen lives
With the blackest ink with the darkest hue
Yet the blackest truth out there even...

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I am Dedan
I tell tales
Tales of fight
Tales of freedom
Freedom to breathe
Freedom to think
Think to prosper
Think to liberate
Liberate Humanity
Liberate my land
Land is the mother
Land of my origin
Origin of human
Origin to be evolved
Evolved you are
Evolved from this...

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...This happened when we were undergrads,
but then in his graduate studies
when he was working towards a career
that was entwined with biology,
he was working with a group that sought
to raise up the national IQ,
and then Charlie,...

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In this land we had a President teacher
So was our nice neighbour next door
A fertile ground to hold holy such a duty
An easy guess : respect was far more important
Than what we thought of compensation...

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An old Ethiopian veteran of the love wars 
once told a newlywed Kenyan kid:
If you want the infant marriage to survive,
make it to the golden years Mt. Kilimanjaro side
You gotta keep the giraffe standing up,
when...

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I awoke from a dream I had been dreaming  
With sweat that was popping from my head 
I knew I had to shake it off 
So I got up out of bed  
I...

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The CRY OF A KENYAN. 
Rihanna talks of The New America
American Oxygen
It seems same for poor Kenya
Our one and only treasure
Drowning in the dark
Driven by cartels of no concern
No care for the next generation. 
And...

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So you're stuck on 15-down for the name of a barren of mules!
Groups of creatures...

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Put your finger down 
If you  believed 
That Maandamano (Protests) would change the country 
Put your finger down 
If you were caught in the feeling 
That the revolution has been televised 
Put your finger...

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I envision no romantic, grease-splattered engineer
Overseeing the direction of my particular train. 
It just follows the course of the tracks laid down 
Within the fractal flow of nature’s symmetry.
It curiously transports me from one sad...

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By Ombuge Moses

Mama!
You sleep on a crack ground
Empty is the stomach
Hot is the sun
Nothing to quench the crack
The thirst is killing
Cracked is my throat
Helplessly you lay
You sleep on a crack ground

Baba!
Your cry is echoing
My ears...

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The white tribe

In Europe and in other countries, with sizable white populations, the worry is, are the white becoming a minority? 
It used to be easy, the white were the English, Scottish, and, reluctantly the...

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None Man
I am not doing politics anymore
I will support none Man
To betray mine bet
I respect thine noble profession
but why only your possession
only you eat on us spit
The promised deeds lost in greed
Underground systems,same skin
Veil,veil,veil,curtained in...

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I had to down my tools
I had to terminate the calling
I struck wielding the ngungi..
I struck the great gadgados
Defender i neutralized
What is mine by right

The mob was unleashed on me
Thoughtless humans trying..
Nay baying for my...

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War! War! You came between us,
Destroyed the only love we treasured,
Firepower of our love so sacred,
The dreams and visions we dreamt,
The colorful wedding, we dreamt,
War! War! who sent you to us?

I am left weeping as...

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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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We are kenyan superstars,
That is what we are,
Kenya our mother land and pride,
Shines so bright that it cannot fade,
Today we hear,`Kenyan athletes bring home,
Bronze,Silver and Gold,'
Tomorrow,``The Kenya Rugby 7's defeat New zealand again.''

The Maasai culture...

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