Ngwatilo

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Poem Edit: [formerly "End" now possibly "Round n Again"]

i think this works better: title subject to change
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I met a man today who speaks like you-
I want to tell
you (can’t find your grave, won’t
go) there is nothing warm/ he means
mourning does not end (mourning
cannot end)
he’s speaking
now. I’m behaving badly
writing you while he’s exposed, waiting
for me. I wanna talk so I can pretend
it’s you listening, [...]

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Ngwatilo Leads FREE Poetry Workshop at WAPI this Weekend. Sign up!!

Poetry Workshop 01 – Craft in Writing and Performance

The poet’s first relationship is with the page; it is where the idea that birthed the poem is worked out, each word chosen and each line crafted. The page is the first performance space. Each move must be tight and flow with the next as in a [...]

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End (new)

Met a man today who speaks like you I want to tell you can’t find your grave still I won’t go there is nothing he means that mourning does not end mourning cannot end
His voice is speaking now I’m behaving badly writing you while he’s exposed watching for my response to him I cannot listen [...]

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Teacups and Change (two poems one old, one new)

Teacups
Eleven years old and accustomed to seeing
the Jacaranda trees carpet the hill-side
with their lavender flowers, loving them even
when they wilted and returned to dirt; I still hoped
Dad would put colored lights on the twenty
foot cypress tree outside at Christmas, utterly
disregarding its browning diseased needles
and his fragility, to believe we will be back soon
in a year [...]

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Kenya: Mother Tongue and Cultural Identity (on rotation

Kenya: Mother Tongue And Cultural Identity
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
http://www.eastandard.net/
OPINION
February 24, 2007
Posted to the web February 26, 2007

Egara Kabaji
Nairobi

The World Mother Tongue Day was marked on last week on Wednesday,
February 21. Unfortunately, there was no significant event organised
to mark the day in Kenya. The newspapers, radio and TV stations were
equally silent yet the question of [...]