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  Interview by Lise Kiberwa (Rwanda), edited and curated by Frank Njugi (Kenya) 1. Hello Naomi, It is a pleasure talking to you. You have been termed a strong Kenyan voice in the [...]

My house is no longer a home, My friends fear for what I have become Some say I was a fool to fall for you, But beware of what love can make you do. You kept feeding me lies, in every word, every [...]

I don’t know about this song, It rings in my ears like a dreadful death-wish Or a death wish it is. Smiles withered into pale and grey And dear dad sat on the edge of life And embraced death like [...]

Broken into pieces none to reminiscent, To what was foretold, we faultily behold. The promise we deem makes no sense, Do not refute, it’s the feast of loneliness. Plain words from the Word, we [...]

I am a nomad, led in hand by my crimson past, carrying satires across the wastelands of sighs & of heaves. I’m a nomad—a bird of passage– a wandering star, living in a sky I can not call my [...]

By face value it is sadness because it is only you and only you you have no one with you if you need a hug, there is none to receive from if you need to cry, there is no shoulder to lean on if [...]

The last kiss you stamped on my neck when we made love Flooded my eyes with tears And it made me lose a trace of even myself since I was soaked in a storm of fear When my lips got cracked. [...]

There was fright here, from this ancient fortress. The sun so soon became as black as figures; clothes five feet high The skies fell forth, clad in leather jerkin to the desolate. The moon turned [...]

Adrenaline glues my knees to the floor, As you betray me one more time. I do not fight it, Instead, I take a trip down memory lane, To our first date, under a beautiful red sunset, And I, a [...]

  Balancing Message Delivery and Language Prowess In our inner character, poetry is powerful psychotherapy. Its emotive power connects us with various attitudes and thoughts popping up in [...]