Groanings

The ever-flowing unshed tears The gasping for words and breathe Undecipherable Lamentations bubbling from the core Expressing itself in thousands Wordless words   Liquid pains surging Sending lightning bolt jolts Pain monster caressing my joint With phalanges of hydra Probing my very breath Until my pain and groan blend   As I stutter to describe …

Motherhood

MOTHERHOOD Cuddling my bundle of joy, swaddled in a fluffy shawl, with her pink lips eagerly searching out with a closed eye looking for something to suckle, I behold the mystery of creation. She is the most beautiful baby of any gender I have ever seen, with tiny hands and legs grabbing and kicking, her …

Lessons Gleaned 7

Lessons Gleaned 7 Patience is a virtue that must be cultivated at all cost if one will ever amount to anything in life. There is an African adage that" through patience, a stone can be cooked". We are wired to get things done at the speed of light in this age. That is why we have …

Painful Love (poem)

PAINFUL LOVE Knowing that the colour red depict love Love is also a heart depicted The colour red blood a depict The heart fragile … True love is based on the bloodred sacrifice A life juice aflow in a relationship The basics of life kept hidden but painful When visible Love life and live love Smearing the …

Lessons Gleaned 6

LESSONS GLEANED 6   “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”  ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”  ― Stephen R. Covey   “Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and …

When I was my mother Son (poem)

When I was my mother son I was a precious jewel to her Getting all I want and need No price tag is too heavy to Unseal   Relentlessly spoilt with goodies of life Unashamedly attached to the golden apron Unattachedly attached to the Golden Fleece Milking all to my fill   Here we are …

Lessons Gleaned 5

LESSONS LEARNED 5   I will be going down the memory lane to dig out a truth I learn early in my twenties. We all like it when all is rosy and moving on smoothly. No one really appreciates it when things go down south. No one is interested in a topsy-turvy situation. We all …

Lessons Gleaned 4

Lessons Gleaned 4   “Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”  ― Frank Zappa   “Always hear others out and remain open-minded; …

Lessons Gleaned 3

Lessons Gleaned 3   Life is transient. A life well lived and good legacies left behind is the memory that can lay claim to immortality. Less than two years ago I looked at the lifeless corpse of my dad and countless emotions ran riot through my mind. What is the essence of life and what will you be …

Lessons Gleaned 2

Lessons Gleaned 2   Piecing together snippets of wisdom grains gleaned can be arduous and nerve-racking. Beginning and deleting is the order of the day.  I believe most writers can relate with this plight of mine.   After staring blankly at my PC for a period whose length I could not even say, I finally …