Showing posts with label Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Poem: Home For Love by Manuel Odeny

hey love
just a warm smile, an assurance you are mine
embrace me for loneliness to ease
a hot calabash of uji*' for my soul to soothe
smooch my salty lips, to remove the bitter bile
come closer sweet, for your body i desire
the rob and urge in me to release.
I will whisper what i miss dove
coz I am home.

*Uji (from Swahili, porridge)



 

Friday, July 6, 2012

Photography: HIV testing through the eyes of children

A child looks on as a journalist interviews her mother at HIV support center in Kisumu, Kenya
Anxiuos children waiting for HIV results from their aunt as counselors visit their home in Chiga area, Kisumu
Phoebe Anyongo, a HIV +ve mother with her two health twins after a PMTCT in a clinic in Kisumu, Kenya

Friday, January 20, 2012

Burning Lens: A flower, zoom tight, focus and click.....

Close up shot of a  flower of Awuor Awuor plant. Manuel Odeny/  The Burning Splint

Close up shot of a  flower of Awuor Awuor plant. Manuel Odeny/  The Burning Splint

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Poem: The age of innocence by Kuchio Asonga

Her mother never loved her
she kept wishing she never had her
A love child, in truth a bastard
From whence she could remember
Life was always hard
She rarely ever smiled
She was often sad
They treated her harshly
They said she was bad
Her mother loathed her
Because she resembled her dad
So she runaway, as soon
as she could find away
She packed her bags
and fled to the city
Hoping to find a prince charming
Who thought she was pretty
But all the men she met
Wanted to use her body
To tell her lies to confuse her
then misuse and abuse her
Quickly she learned their game
And began to make them pay for her charms
To be held for a moment
In the warmth of her arms

Still she dreams of settling down
and starting her own home
But that is hard
When selling yourself, for your,
Daily bread is the norm
Gone is her age of innocence
Lost to life's experience

James Kuchio Asonga/ Superb Wun 2011©

To read more of the poet log onto http://www.infinitevision.blog.com/  or http://www.chrismukasa.blogspot.com/