by Benard Makaa | May 26, 2019 | Poems
For I will walk miles, All for you, If you let me. Time, time will tell, How lucky we are. Can you trust me? Harbour any feelings of love? Enjoy my company? Believe my banter? Entertain my melancholy? Time, time will tell. Keep my secrets, or I better...
by Benard Makaa | May 26, 2019 | Poems
Goodnight goodnight, My fallen light, I guess you were right, About your journey end. Travelling light, You once so bright, My fallen light, You ran the race. I was just a fool A traveler who, Forgot the how, Of running the race. I know many who,...
by Benard Makaa | Apr 25, 2019 | Poems
Come gather ‘round friends, Wherever you are, And refute the claims, That I can’t do small talk. Come acquaintances and colleagues, Who know me well, And confirm my claim, That I do banter. Come “girlfriends”, Present and past, And refute the...
by Benard Makaa | Apr 24, 2019 | Poems, Stories
I have wasted the weekend in the cottage and the ocean, I have tramped in the sand and the murram, I have dined on Ugali and munched a melon, An orange and a yam. I have slept in the open, With warm breeze over my body, I have swum in the pool, And taken nudes...
by Benard Makaa | Apr 11, 2019 | Poems
We met on a New Year’s Eve, And instantly fell in love, For no reason yet, Other than we just met. Friends said, tell us the story please, Tells us, amuse us, Tell us, keep us at ease, Tell us, tell us, oh please tell us. They persist, did you...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 18, 2019 | Poems, Stories
Listen, my friends, and you shall hear, Of a man who fell in love, On the thirty first of December, in Twenty Twelve. Fondly remembered is this famous day and year. On a calm Sunday afternoon, While on his way to a friend’s wedding. Through the empty...
