April 30, 2020

Today’s prompt is to write about something that returns. This poem is about returning of the rose as a flower, metaphor, victuals, and wisdom. Today marks the end of Na/GloPoWrimo. Thank you, Maureen, and all the poets, for inspiring the infinite weaving of the poetry rope. 8th year done despite challenges of finding time to…

April 15, 2020

I joined Letters Live in their #ReadALetter campaign by writing and reading a letter to anyone in isolation, to add a bit of sunshine in their life. The letter focus is on the dandelion flower because it reminds us that even though considered a weed plant, the dandelion is considered by some a symbol of…

March 31, 2020

The early bird prompt challenges to write a poem about a favorite bird. This is a free verse Puente as a socially isolated wild turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the third this yearmy friends pranced into hidingin the far fields of isolation. ~a place where whistling reaches not~ and I gobble from atop my…

March 7, 2020

Contrary to the industry categorization of literature to define various types of fictions, including children’s books, nobody is writing for children only. As an avid reader of children’s books, I would prefer if the categorization of those books were, for example, fable, fairy tale, illustrated, non-illustrated, etc. Some of my books are categorized as children’s….

February 13, 2020

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” ― Alan D. Wolfelt Have you created love in the kitchen yet? If yes, do you still go there to seek it? If not, did you break it there? I was in the latter category until a year ago. In the past year, I found myself…

February 4, 2020

You went to church to seek God and founda tempting hell, pulling your mind to unholy placesexcept the altar where his only son lives crucified. An aching heart goes where others kneel to wail. Inside the holy place, pain sees perfection of others,the heart aches to see more, deeper, beyond shufflingof sacred pages, riddled with…

January 16, 2020

On Saturday, 7 August 2019, together with a fellow Tanzanian writer, Justine Kakoko, we held a book launch event for my bilingual book ‘Jai The Albino Cow: Jai Ng’ombe Zeruzeru‘ in Sumbawanga, Tanzania. The event was attended by thirty-three children. Mostly were from Katandala Orphanage Center and some from the neighborhood. The day’s program began…

January 9, 2020

My eyes weighed with grieve; like a sinking stone in water, I sat down to weep by the river. What would be of those tears once downstream in the ocean? Will the heart feel cleansed? I saw the ocean swelling upriver cutting through the belly of trash wishing it were the mountain snow. Downriver the…