Crime and the voices of the people. A five minutes story of a crime scene.
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In 2019 I took this course ‘Routing and Switching’ offered by the Huawei Academy in Egypt, though sat at the Huawei Centre at Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi. The purpose was to deepen my understanding of computer systems, local area networks and internet systems so as to be able to maintain them in our institution.
A poem painting different faces of human purposeful struggles.
The first question we need to delve into is the nature of the problematic situation. Why do we use arms to resolve conflicts? Can we realistically end wars and silence the guns by 2020 as the AU’s Agenda 2063 looks forward to? Objectively, the reality of peace in the world today, which is indeed commonplace in literature, is still far from completion to a considerably great extent.
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in March 2019. Crowned their KingRig and ring will counter noughtNor change, what is deemedFor a king, must bring peace in his quietThis Simba you’ve doneYour honour in all brutes! Elegant as you are,Your quite is their peace. TremblingSeizes their wake, andBeauty’d hypnotize folks fretful.Then they’d pray to healFrom your severe salutation! Hesitant, careful, of mind,Souls be, as you beFor novel visits, where is one.Sway owes your guard, to stayIn surge and fill, and singThis your tongue counts done!
The celebration of a new beginning shoud not be a moment to celebrate passage of time, but rather of recalling and examining how we maximized the previous phase of the natural provision we call time.
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa Monthly Literary Magazine, October 2018 There goes the MaasaiHoping up the sunDown the land, and up againThe warrior of man, AfricanTaut and hard done His classy lubega is borneTo shelter the gallant breastAnd clothe the life loinsThat cold, dirt, rain, shameBetroths nought His virgin dagger, darlingWarrior of man African;As is to a hen a nestling,Parting not wherever she may goThat peace ever there be His chaste trim spawn’s unspinstered,But for herd historical,And man not one, saveOne who’d smother a lion!This I did, man AfricanHoping up, down, and again to…
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in August 2018. DimI seeNothing any farMine world is breachedLoss, debts, deaths, blame, wretch-headThe past haunting, the hidden scaringBut, defeat thereof, is here, near, nowLight glows; the fog finds cover, and timeCounts its own, once more when dusk’dSleep and turn again all over!Life’s back when none’d seemI see all aheadBut prickly unseenMy get-awayIs.
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in July 2018 Edition Downcast I wasLaden, cumbered,Lowered, eaten,Bad’d turned worse,Life’s, staggered; wanédWounded, beatenVigor, counts lessAll’d died, but breathThat I have it all Heart, then broken, wearied,Faith, hope stolen, morbid,All ferried, as pollen, buried,Far, and far em stamen,How solid such life’s deed. A friend is nought, anymore,In need, now, he’d fault, no score,Of love, not’a jot, unsure where to,Far-off my cot, his smiles did tour,That them count this poor! Unloved, I’d thought, desertedEven more; Now, churned with disconcertOf the lore, Oh! “… friend indeed”Roar dear, feely, rhyming;…
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in their June 2018 Edition. Down the shadowy river bankThe lone crumbling stony bridge, in sight,The blonde swift pacing sundown,And the dutiful whispering waters,Which nursed and romancedThe busy starving gossiping winds, hoveringUnto the grinning starry heavens,Remain the eyewitnessesOf that wonder,Love at first sight.Unbelieving thence you was, as howFrom the affluent a ripe lad falls on you?Lone, hurt lass, and at such odd an hourWhen poverty has creptAll over; save soul,Your wheels then, now your legs,Hapless, would make it all worse,As worse as miracle;Thus you had…