by Benard Makaa | May 6, 2022 | Learning
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young by Mary Schmich: Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 7, 2022 | Poems
Why do they do it? Why do they do it?Why do they stand on podiums and pulpits-Lying and lying and lying and lying-Even though we all know that they lieEven though everyone says, I knew it! How can they do it? How can they do it?Spinning and spinning webs and webs of...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2022 | Culture, Poems
Come, gather you, people,And listen to a story I’ll tell,Of a boy smitten with love,From Mbooni hills. Come, gather my friends,And listen to my tale,Of a girl in love,From the Nandi plains. Atop a hand rowed boat,Was the question posed,Under the calmness of...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2022 | Birthday
“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 25, 2022 | Poems
I love you with all my heart,Come I take to Mbooni we establish our family,Now and forevermore you shall be Mrs. Mumo,Just a little patience, the day is near. I have loved you freely and it’s not a lie,Our love is eternal,I promise you a daylight wedding,In front of...