Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Poem: Bedroom Technology by Otiato Guguyu

The Poet: Otiato Guguyu
Man why are you still basking in past glory
why are you still in celebratory robes
of the reign over the down trodden
can you rival the sperm bank
in production of likable features
single parenthood single conception
can you even dream of vibrating
like a chinese toy in the electronic shop
self reliance self satisfaction
and you still had the audacity
to let past your power fed eyes
same sex marriage
now the daughters of eve come together as one
will you allow to be pushed to
homosexuality and bestiality?
or will you with nostalgia
discover the joys of your palms
let us fight bedroom technology
lest we be rendered redundant
and allow the race of amazons
in the second millennium

©2008 Otiato Guguyu

The poet, Otiato Guguyu is a Communication and Media Technolgy with IT student at Maseno University Kenya, The Managing Editor of Equator Weekly and a Blogger at http://otiatoguguyu.blogspot.com 

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Book Review: Guilt by John Lescroart

A Soul Burdened with Guilt Knows no Peace.
TITLE: Guilt
AUTHOR: John Lescroart
PUBLISHER: Headline
GENRE: Fiction
PAGES: N/A, read from Readers Digest collection,1970
REVIEWER: Manuel Odeny

Mark Dooher has many things to feel guilty about. Many things hold, both to his heart and soul. Many things. No peace- a tormented soul bound.

Mark Dooher is a powerful and successful lawyer; he dines and lives with the rich. Everything in life is fine and smooth. He owns a Lexus, goes, and is a member of a reputable golf club, lives in fine house and owns a profitable law firm.

This is the public mark Dooher, but in private life he is a monster. Mark Dooher has a troubled marriage and falls for a magnetic beauty of a young lawyer. Anything Mark Dooher wants, anything, he gets, no matter the obstacles on his road. And Mark Dooher wants the young lawyer even if accused of the darkest crime: the murder of his wife to marry the ravishing beauty and to get $1.6M life insurance.

The private monster envision ecstasy and thrill of power, even equaled to power of God; taking life. Everything standing on Mark’s way will be dealt with. Competitors are crushed and opposing lawyers found dead in their offices.

The guilt is getting heavier and the past is quickly catching up pretty quick. The soldiers in his platoon who died of heroine overdose, the drug supplier in Vietnam who died of bayonet wounds.

In Stanford University while undertaking his law degree, of a rape, 20 years ago, of a woman with a shaky life like an extension ladder. Though the woman hoped in beds and abused every drug on the face of America, she remembers what Mark Dooher did to her.
John Lescroart

Weightier, the guilt gets heavier when police officers believe he murdered his wife and a rival lawyer but cant prove. Being shrewd Mark Dooher gets away scot-free with a trophy wife but lose his friends, clients an firm. That is when the guilty has to face reality.

John Lescroart (pronounced Leskaw) writes fluid English, well placed contexts and even suspense to hold the reader and make the book a page turner.

Monday, February 16, 2009

The Value Of The Invaluable Genuine Smile


Among many things that can make a person like you; a smile tops the list. It is a simple way for the first good impression. Thus cultivating a sweet smile can work wonders into your life; in relationship and at the work place.

A research conducted by Communication scientist indicated that those who smile3 more frequently live longer than their frowning counterparts. Just consider this: a lot of energy is used while frowning than smiling! Researchers in America found out that women smiled more than men by checking their faces; women in the study had laugh lines while men had furrow lines.

A smile always costs nothing but creates much for it enriches those who receive it without improvising those who give it. A smile is the only thing that you can give and receive it at the same time. A sweet genuine smile may happen in a flash but it memory sometimes lasts forever.

So great is the value of a genuine smile that none is so rich they can’t go along without it and so poor but are richer from its benefit. A sweet genuine smile creates happiness in the home’ foster good will in business and is the counter sign of friendship.

Happy couples can be gauged by how often they smile together and at each other for it shows appreciation of each other. In a relationship a genuine smile is rest to couples weary of the world, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine when sad and nature’s best antidote for world’s trouble. So when your partner is so tired to give you a smile; may you leave one of yours? For nobody needs a smile so much as those with none left to give.

The value of a genuine is so great that it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen for it is something that is of no earthly good to anybody till it is given away. A genuine smile comes from the heart compared to plastic or rubbery smile meant to pacify and flatter.

Consider this anecdote for the value of a genuine smile:

One Christmas a young poor girl was to sing a carol at a humble church. The congregation sat silently as the girl walked to the podium; her hair was held back by a simple ribbon and the cheap clothes were pressed neatly. Although poor the girl had a big heart full of love. On the congregation sat a millionaire who was passing through the village. The millionaire was sad because his doctor had diagnosed him of cancer and he had a year to live.

All the eyes trailed the girl; she turned faced the congregation and gave a sweet beaming smile that lit up the church. The millionaire felt the heavy cloud of despair being lifted, the valley of depression filling with joy and the mountain of sadness melting away.

A year later on his will the millionaire instructed his lawyer to divide his wealth to everybody who made him happy and guess what: the little girl was an heiress.

PLEASE SMILE
Please smile
For it costs nothing but creates much
Your smile is rest when am weary
The daylight when discouraged
Sweet sunshine when sad
Please give me the nature’s best antidote for trouble
Hey girl please smile
When am so tired, angry and frowning
May I ask you to leave a soothing smile
For thou smile is sweet
To whoever has none to offer
Just part your rosy lips
Just give me the invaluable smile
So that I can see your dimple
On a beautiful face without a pimple
Truly thy smile can’t be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen
For a sweet smile is void of earthly good
Till it is given away
Face the world with a big smile
The big mirror reflects on what you do
It will truly smile back;
Create happiness in the home
Foster good will in the business
Countersign friendship and love
Hi my girl
Though in a flash you may smile
The sweet memoirs are forever etched in me heart
Thus smile but not from a mile
So if you want people to like you: SMILE