Nafumjromwami

"How lovely to be in the present? To be really me in the now! If only I stopped blaming myself of my past And stopped unnecessary anxiety of the future Saint Augustine consoles me in his words: ‘Trust..."

"Death, why a mystery to us?For how long will you remain hidden from us?Even with our sophisticated technologies,We cannot fully comprehend you!You snatch us away our loved ones,At the time we need the..."

"I met Liz when she was an innocent local village high school girlOur friendship begun like a little grain of wheat in the soilWithin a while, it had blossomed.We were like a foot on the pathway in con..."

"NY is under pressure,There is turmoilThe inhabitants are in pain.They have losed their loved onesSome are crying,Some are weeping,Some are wailing,Some are dying Some have lost their live hood, Everyb..."

"Freedom! Freedom! I have longed for you,I have searched and searched, but never fully found you,Freedom, where is your hiding place?Why are you so scarce?Why do you come to me in bits and pieces?You a..."

"I am haunted by the biblical words: “Where your treasure is, then there your heart is” My heart is unsettled in search of its treasure I thought I had found it, found it in money, in my lover, in dr..."

"I have grown up as a country boy, right on the equatorwith twelve equal hours of day and night. With sunshineevery day of the year. Nothing below 55 or above 80I remember when I was a kid; my grandma ..."

"My friend, why like a Chameleon?Why unpredictable?Why keep changing? Why never consistent?Why never stable? Why never reliable?Why never faithful to your word?Why like a Chameleon?Today you are this, ..."

"I am good no matter what they say or do to me Day and night they plot evil against me They say: “what faults do we find with him?” And they create some if they don’t find any They delight in my past..."

"He thinks the same way he thought twenty years agoHe behaves the same way he did twenty years agoHe is stuck in the pastHei, rise up and go! read the signs of the timeAccept change. for if you don’t c..."

"The media bombards us with the criteria for beauty They make us reject ourselves for what we are Why must we subject ourselves to them? I have my cute eyes to choose what is best for me Whether big o..."

"Love! Why are you so expensive?Why do you cause pain in me?I have longed for you!I have asked you to be with me and in me.Yet your response has always been:“If you want to be with me         Let go of..."

"You are all that I have I have no mother, no father no brother, no sister ... Why leave me? I never meant to hurt you! In any case, I have always been there for you Why leave me now? Can one wrong ..."

"I need you woman. I need you You are my other self I can’t do without you Your intuition pierces my heart and my soul You look in my eyes and you know me You calm my fears and anxieties When I get l..."

"How great it is to be a poet! Poetry, a special gift to a privileged few A powerful tool of communication A sacred revelation of reality in symbols But I am afraid to be a poet Afraid, if imaginatio..."

"She was at the age of 16 when I saw her She was all the beauty you can think of I saw the whole world in her eyes She had stolen my heart But come her daughter A little less than an angel but more be..."

"How beautiful the Fall is!When the skies go blueWhen the air is stilland the fineness of the breeze that comes with itAnd when the leaves turn their colours,red, yellow, purple, orange….Who cannot aff..."

"I have a knee injury I sustained eleven years a go while playing this nice but stupid soccer game It was mild at the time, but it is serious- a torn medial meniscus. A major operation I will undergo!..."

"Did you ever think that winter darkness is at its height on 25th December? When the light of day disappears early, and the darkness of the night appears too early And night is really dark? Dark for ..."

"On that day in the evening, she lay in bed surrounded with her loved ones excepther last-born who had ran away 20 years ago.Her chest was out, barely covered. Her face looked miserable with tears roll..."

"You are because you are what you are I am because I am what I am You are because we are and since we are therefore I am Christmas without Easter would be meaningless Man without woman may never gi..."

"I love this saying, ‘When two elephants fight, who suffers? The grass!’ Indeed, when dad and mum fight, who suffers? The kids! When we fight the terrorists, who suffer? Again, when two elephants fight..."

"We stood at the bus stop waiting for the bus to come She had come to pay me a visit. Two years had passed without seeing her and those two seemed like eternity I did not even want to let her go. I sta..."

"It is midnight Saturday I sit in the only chair in my bedroom I am worn out, weary, desparate, angry… I have given up in life, no point of living I have decided and no turning, no more of life No matt..."

"You are friends because of me Because I am your common enemy Because you can talk about me Because you can gossip about me Because you can plot evil against me I am your story I make you happy Your ..."

"Mama, you were everything to me You were my husband You were my children You were my happiness You were my life I did everything to prevent you from going And when I knew I was heading to nowhere I ..."

"I am no longer a child But I am not yet there I am nineteen Soon and very soon I will be there But from here to there It is like eternity Last night I had a dream In the dream I saw myself great- in ..."

"There is treasure in your beauty In the mountains, in the hills In the ocean beaches In the rift valley In the lakes in the plains In the people … The people co-exist with wild animals With elephan..."

"In love and marriage little things matter I did not learn this from books my lover taught me Our lives were changed Our minds were broadened Our hearts were open to love Our focus was no longer i..."

"She was no longer I had before Her beauty was gone Appearance yes But in my heart and mind, she was ugly Where had her beauty gone? Why no longer attractive? Her smile was a curse to me He laughter ha..."

"Like a Hyena on the forest path hunting for his prey, hungry, desperate He can’t wait, he can’t hold any longer Anything that will come his way At this intersection he smells his prey From both direc..."

"A New birth! Light in darkness Joy in sadness Life in death Love in hatred Peace in chaos Unity in diversity We feast! We rejoice We sing We dance Our sadness disappear even if for a moment For we ga..."

"Ooh Mother Earth! What a shame we forget That we are one with you! That we come from you You hold the key to the unknown You hold the power to new life You open up to those who till you And behold ne..."

"Watch world cup soccer Watch Olympic games Watch soccer, watch them play! Watch them watch! Rituals they perform Faithful they are to the rubrics Punishment and reward to all Nothing escapes their wa..."

"I wake up at 9.00. I can’t recall where I am. I hear the vibrating sounds, I am confused, anxious, but excited. Towards the window I move, To my surprise is white snow all over. And the vibrating wat..."

"I waited, waited, waited; Days and days, week after week, Months and months! Year after year. I was disillusioned. I just wanted him to say, ‘ I am sorry; I was wrong, forgive me!’ He dared not. If he..."

"I cannot tell the precise moment our friendship was formed. As in filling a Vessel drop by drop, the last drop made it run over. It was a series of her kindness, which made my heart run over. She be..."

"If true love is god or whatever; then, I Understand why it is a mystery I understand why we cannot comprehend it I understand why it is the most misused term I understand why we mistake it. Woe to m..."

"I see a poor man walking in the streets, he doesn’t have anything to eat. I see a poor man walking in the streets, No  decency in his wear. What can you give, what can you say,  to this poor man that..."

"Tamed is the mind that makes life real Tamed is the mind that gives meaning to things For tomorrow wouldn’t be New Year What is the difference between today and tomorrow anyway? Happy are they who ha..."

"Great minds I have met Good and tender hearts I have seen Your comments have tapped my unexplored minds Your nice words have been a healing power Relations we have established Ideas we have shared In..."

"My dreams: good job, good friends, good family, a millionaire, a successful man. I traveled far and wide. Made great friends, made great money. But barely did I sleep, barely did I eat No time for mys..."

"Sooo many sounds ringing into my ear, So many things in my mind. I am excited, anxious and scared too. No more honey moon, no more safaris. No more clowning around! A mount of tasks lie ahead me My fr..."

"I stood far watching, In disbelief I watched. The cruelty on this cow, As the men pierced her. Ten men struggled, With blunt objects they struggled. Theirs was to get meat, At all cost they would..."

"A smooth start from Lambert. Good and kind security personnel For I do not need to be naked to pass through the tightly security. Take off is not my concern. It is the cloudy sky, the fear and puzzle..."

"Morning by morning I look myself in the mirror Looking for the answers to, whose image? Who am I? And how do I improve my image? Two mirrors I need for my front and back for one is less than real. Jo..."

"“Adam said it is not me but the woman you gave to me. And Eve said, it is not I but the serpent. {And the serpent said, it is not me but you who created me, made me cunning and irresponsible}“ I hear..."

"I stand before my beautiful bed of roses day by day, every morning ready to harvest. The beauty of the flowers in their colours, red, yellow, white, pink, purple… steal my heart. What a beauty? What..."