LITERARY CORNER

POETIC TURN: The Recipe

By Shem Onderi It has ingredients—some used fully, some in part,and some set aside altogether,even after being chosen. Those abandoned are not without worth.Perhaps the

POETIC TURN: Capital

By Shem Onderi This is business moneyIt is huge or little depending on where it is putIt is colossal at the startSometimes tempting to divert

POETIC TURN: A Writer as President — What a Dream!

By Shem Onderi Delegations arrive—one after another—to the State Office,speaking of country. Salutes snap from men in uniform.Their presence presses in—overwhelming,filling every corner of my

POETIC TURN: Underneath the Bus

By Shem Onderi It is dirty,Collecting filth of every kind.See how waste clings to metal, carried milesBefore it lets go.Mud cakes beneath the bus—some for

POETIC TURN: If My Pen Would Speak

By Shem Onderi If my pen would speak,It could tell of the times I paused writing—Not that I was weak,Only that the ideas faded outWhen

POETIC TURN: Long Night

By Shem Onderi How long—long for who?Why the long night, for anyone to say so?Who can count the length of the night?For some, how can

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