by Benard Makaa | May 6, 2020 | Poems
Nobody loves you when you’re young and nothing, Nobody sees when you’re hustling for a buck and a dime, Everybody loves you when of age & you’re something, Everybody sees when you make it. Nobody loves you when you’re poor, Nobody cares until you have made...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 28, 2020 | Culture, Poems
Stay away from the altars and the malls, Stay away from the markets and the stalls, Stay away through the night, Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. Stay away from the rumors and fables, Stay away from gossip and fake news, Stay away from the pain and...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 18, 2020 | Birthday, Poems
Welcome the day that gave you birth! And may it often come to bless, The girl who graces the earth, With her surpassing loveliness, Having been named Faith, The evidence and substance, Of all, I ever did dream of. And may through all this life of yours, The...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2020 | Birthday
“Father of light and life, though Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me Yourself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!” Been...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 21, 2020 | Poems
Who will live and who will die, Who after a long life, who before his time, Who by water, who by fire, Who by hunger, and who by thirst, Who by the virus, who by the plague, Who in the night time, who in the sun shine, Who by slow decay, who by the gun, And who shall...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 4, 2020 | Poems
The Blind Men and the Elephant, A HINDU FABLE. By John Godfrey Saxe I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. II. The First approached...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 19, 2020 | Learning
Until 2017, I had only one official shirt. A blue shirt that I was gifted in 2008, as a token of appreciation for serving as a class prefect at Kitondo School. I used it until it was too torn to be used anywhere. It was my Sunday best. Not that I couldn’t afford new...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 19, 2020 | Books
I shall keep updating this list as the year progresses on. For reviews and book summaries, click the book(Amazon) links. For the 2019 list, find it here. For the 2018 list, find it here. For the 2017 list, find it here. For the 2016 list, find it here. For the 2015...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 1, 2020 | What I have learned
Yesternight I didn’t sleep soundly thanks to some din that was emanating from a neighbour’s house on the 1st floor. And I stay on the 3rd floor. Maybe they were celebrating the New Year or so. I don’t know. What I know is that I have always been bothered by any...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 1, 2020 | Poems
Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life, In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow only a vision, But today well...