If poetry wasn’t a womanHow would you seduceThe eyes to openThe heart’s windows of emotion If poetry wasn’t a womanHow would naked wordsSeduce the mindEjaculaiting a climax of creative ideas If poetry wasn’t a womanHow would the loinsOf the creative lay openFull of desire for emotional satisfaction If poetry wasn’t a womanHow would achieve a…

I choose to not take sidesIn the battle of the sexesIt sucks!Why is there even a battle I ask?When you have brothers and sistersWhat about the fathers and mothers? Your daughters and your sons? It doesn’t make senseTrying to outdo the other we obsessWho taught you humanity is lessIn either of the sexSure some anatomy…

Dafrao na mapenziNimejigonga kishenziNaomba unienzi Kooni ‘nna kiaziLanisakama hili penziBila wewe ‘ntupu simanzi Waniua kipenziMacho yako ya mapenzi‘Nkikutazama nazama kwa mapenzi Sote shobo ‘nwaziNjoo nami tupige mbiziTujitose ‘nbahari ya letu penzi Katu sitokuacha mpenziSiondoki hata kwa hiriziMilele pamoja naomba nienzi ©️ C Akui 2020 #CarolsInsights#ThatAfricanGirlPoetry

Stella from the songHow you did him wrongLeading him onFor so longFreshly not so fresh the manCouldn’t move onHurt in his heart you didn’t warnYou hit him head on Stella from the songWhat went onReally was wrongWhat was Freshly to do the poor manHigh and dry you left him to hangAn international airport, all looking…

Dear FreshlyYou don’t know me exactlyI know you but not personally I hope you are doing wellJudging from the lyrics I can tellYou must have through hell Watching the love of your life StellaEmerging with a baby by another fellaI can’t imagine the hurt, you poor fella! Seventeenth of the fifth etched in our mindsOur…

I know this girl Stella a beauty to beholdEndowed in all the right places truth be toldHer brains matches her looks it’s gold This guy from Taita young and freshHis name Mwamburi, for swag freshlyHim and Stella tight the innocence of their love refreshing Or so we thought!The thickness of the plotFreshly on the spotHold…

What’s your story? Is it a violent one ? Am sorry! It’s a story familiar to many a family. No ordered sequence Or consistent mode of occurrence Has violence become our normal anomaly? The tragic end of many friends and family? I remember mine not with fondness Memories of trauma from the madness Our home…

21 must be the new magic numberNothing magical about being thrown underWell at least this time you looked sober That’s another 21 days of hunger Keeping up with COVIDI need smarts to decipher the calculusAt least I get distractedBy your shirts of so many colours But what’s colourful in the state of the nationWhen I…

Response to Eugizy Eugene Bii ‘s poem #CARO featuring Precious Nekky’s #NAONA_NIKIOMOKA and Clifford Mateh’s #SIEZI_JAM on Modern African poet FB page Mambo EugizyMaze mistari ndio zako na si una pupaZile risto nimechapiwa nashangaa niaje sijatupaNekky ashanichapia kwako ye ndio msupa Maze Nekky amejipata ndani ya mixAlikuwa anachorea Cliff akitaka kumfixKipindi si ikataa kuingiana ni…

Response to #NAONA_NIKIOMOKA by Precious Nekky C/- responding to #SIEZI_JAM by Clifford Mateh on Modern African poet FB page Mambo NekkySinilikushow ntakuvutia hebu tafuta mahali uketiImagine Cliff alicome kunichekiNilienjoy aje juu kuna vile namnoki Alikuwa amechoka ajeKuparara nayo but pozi za mjeiSi unaelewa zinakuagajeHadi hug adai zi ati kwanza ajirushie majiBy the way jana alinibamba…