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The Ties That Bind

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“The Ties that Bind: Poems from a Father’s Heart to His Son” is a touching and heartfelt collection of poetry that captures the special bond between a father and his son. From the joys of fatherhood to the challenges of navigating life, these poems explore the many facets of this unique relationship. The author shares his hopes, fears, and dreams for his son while offering advice and wisdom to guide him on his journey. This book is a beautiful tribute to the enduring love and connection between a father and his child. The anthology is sure to resonate with readers of all ages.

The Me In We by Patrick Lavince

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This classic masterpiece, a collection of poetry, explores the deep recesses of a Poet's soul, birthed from the dying embers of the journey within. The anthology, a four-faceted themed book on Healing, Self-Worth, Discernment & Rebirth, takes a reader on a voyage of a lifetime — through the waded waters of loss, canopy of grace, silent storms of renaissance, tides of hope, regimen of seraphic and divine nourishment and ripples of blues — all in their truest test.

Poetry for kids

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Describe, explore, and explain early learning through poetry and stories told with rhythm.

The Pearl and Other Poems

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The Pearl and other Poems is a collection of 41 poems of different forms, styles and themes; themes that touch on varying aspects of life like love, marriage, politics, farming, education, business, leadership, religion, and anxiety, among others. What Other’s Say The poems in this collection are really enticing and evoke real emotions leaving me yearning for more. The content and titles have no match. Echesa’s creativity is just out of this world - Elizabeth Namarome Mukenya. I just can’t argue with the message in the poem “Dancing in the room”, indeed people don’t get tired of doing things they love. I love the poems in this collection, and keep coming back to them - Silas Khasao Wandera.

SONGS OF MY DREAMS AND OTHER SONGS, A...

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In today’s world, music, art, drama, and poetry are among the most scintillating experiences which appeal to and snatch the attention of our emotions, feelings, thoughts, and decisions. Of them all, however, poetry calls louder and seeks to, in itself, encompassing all the other three. In his wisdom, the renowned poet Percy Shelley said, “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world.” Listening to a poem is an exhilarating dive into music, art, drama, and poetry, all at once. The very writing of a poem is a psychologically expensive and expansive exposure of the audience to realities and imaginations of the past, present, and future, the seen and the unseen, the sweet and the bitter, the true and the untrue, the possible and the impossible, the traditional and the modern, all in a beautifully-crafted presentation. Its recitation is a charming plunge into the world unknown. Song of my Dreams & Other Songs, a brand-new anthology of St. Andrews Creative Writers and Book Club, is a collection of handpicked poetic works by students of St. Andrews Tarabete Secondary School, Kenya. It’s an exquisite epitome of young minds’ ability to think, craft, innovate, and present ideas with ease and complexity, mindfulness and creativity. Within its pages are splashes of a handful of poems by the chaperon teachers, whose work in producing this book was offering insights, changing perspectives, aligning approaches, and instilling gusto into the young creatives’ minds, bringing out the poems and poets in them. The quadri-sectioned anthology treats the reader to an entire assortment of poems in section A, offers poetry notes in section B, a Question and Answer segment in Section C, and poems with questions in section D. In my view, the Song of my Dreams & Other Songs anthology is an Encyclopedia of Poetry in a microcosm. It’s a collection you’ll sit down to read and rise having become a poet, overflowing with the craving to write. It opens with dreams: of self, peace, and a flashback of a once-accommodative nature turned punitive by humanity and then turns to songs about life, nature, joy, sadness, culture, beliefs, and other aspects of life. With the care of nature vanishing every day, we have remained with a skeleton of the same, and now the persona dream in despair, singing in disparity: Oh! Mother Nature how cruel! How cruel to you we became? To strip your chest bare That to which your anger escalated. The dreams are agonizing of a lost reality, a longing for a lofty imagination, a craving for peace, fulfillment, a world of abundance, justice, protection, and thriving. Copies of the anthology. PHOTO/Courtesy. Copies of the anthology. PHOTO/Courtesy. The persona, through the dreams, presents the reader with a heart of resilience and the desire to keep trying and also take a different path for a different, hopefully, better result. They also build a sense of hope for life yonder after struggles, failures, pain, despair, and all negative energy, building up a new worldview of possibilities. In a narrative poem on “Personal Dream” by Teresia Muthoni, the persona narrates about a childhood life and how, all along, has been pursuing a dream hitherto. It brings out the need to focus on one’s dreams and resist the urge to be dissolved in the dreams and wishes of the community around them. Decisiveness is key! While addressing ecological matters such as climate change and the palpable need to care for the planet, which has mothered us, the poetic voices also plunge the reader into paramount contemporary issues like allocation of duties in the family setting, politics, corruption, technology, and crime, and how they have given the world new wings to fly to an unknown destiny. This anthology speaks to all ears, all genders, and all ages, attending to the issues affecting and disturbing society in entirety. Employing imagery, the young minds breathe life into their characters and give their personas the currency to pass the intended message in an easy-to-identify-with approach, adding to their creativity’s aesthetic value, usability, and applicability. The “Song of the Greedy Hyena” by Bonface Otieno stresses the need for hard work, despising a parasitic attitude of waiting to benefit from others’ efforts. It encourages a spirit of self-sufficiency, living within one’s standards, and embracing fairness. The collection unearths the aesthetic value of reading and learning from young people’s thoughts, approaches, and creativity, a pure mystery, winning over the reader to appreciate that younghood is a treasure that society must bank on, nurture, and buoy up. It also presents life in its multifaceted nature, foregrounding the themes of true love, romance and heartbreak, acceptance and rejection, hope and despair, life and death, creation and nature, parenting, academics and politics, beauty and ugliness, friendship and enmity, among many others, all in enchanting spasms. Poems like “Hopeful in Love”, “Camouflaged”, “If I Should Die”, “Toxic Trust”, “My Life”, “When I met You”, “Dark Africa”, “I Keep Wondering”, “Sweet Mother” and “Rest in Peace Old Granma”, among numerous others, speak to the reader of mundane daily life issues affecting the society, nation, continent and the whole world, opening the readers’ eyes to a wider worldview from the persona’s tongue. Diana Agnes’s “Mary’s Plea” is a plea for freedom, a cry to be let alone and be herself. It’s a wake-up call that though we always get tempted to invade others’ space and privacy, we must allow those around us the freedom to be, talk, act, and live them. Calling to mind that this book homes the thoughts of young students, the poets, and poetesses were keen also to praise their current home away from home. With ecstasy and a sense of anticipated nostalgia, “Our Saint St. Andrews” appreciates the molding, imparting, and equipping the institution does to them, forever shaping their future for good. Many cries have been absorbed By your silent walls Yet I know because I met you My life will not be quite The same again! Presenting loyalty as a gem to be embraced and other virtues as bulbs to always be kept light, the poems also hide not reality from us but surface vices as always lurking around us, ever ready to disrupt all goodness. Simultaneously, “Education” by Halsey Nganga praises the power of education in changing lives through time management and focus and how within it is the power to become anything in life. So, If it suits you Shape our ears to hear Sharpen our eyes to see Grace our minds to absorb Bless our hearts to exceed. Song of my Dreams & Other Songs book presents the young creatives’ thoughts with unbridled enthusiasm and well-calculated seasons, carrying the readers from past experiences to the present yet driving their thoughts to the future and leaving them held in anticipation. Through lyric poetry, the creatives express their feelings on different aspects of life, such as love, loneliness, disappointments, fear, and other feelings, riveting the reader all along. The young minds have tapped on figurative language and employed tons of enjambment, making the poems interestingly complex yet easy to decode, affording an amazing flow of thoughts, and maintaining splashes of tension to keep your eyes open, searching for more. Mr. Bonface Otieno (L), Ms. Ruth Gitonga, Kabarak University staff members, and St. Andrews Tarabete Creative Writers and Book Club members after an inspiring creative writing workshop at Kabarak University last year. PHOTO/File. Mr. Bonface Otieno (L), Ms. Ruth Gitonga, Kabarak University staff members, and St. Andrews Tarabete Creative Writers and Book Club members after an inspiring creative writing workshop at Kabarak University last year. PHOTO/File. “Harvesting Eve”, a poem by Jacklyn Livale, a Senior English Literature teacher at the institution, brings down the curtain in the first section of the book. It is a recollection of the joys brought about by harvest season, how nature beautifully responds to the times, and how animals and birds join in the merriment as hunger is bidden goodbye, replaced by abundance and ecstasy. They yearn for more: And as so they sit, waiting for me To sing another harvests song. Going beyond the poems to explain what they are and tons of other details on poetry, this sums up what students have always been waiting for. Section B of this Poetry Encyclopedia delves into all aspects you need to know about poetry, from the (hitherto un-datable) origin of poetry to the definition of the same, types of poems, basic to complex features of a poem and poetry, imagery in poetry and its types, styles, and techniques in poetry, types and techniques of poetry, attitude, tone, mood and a guide to diction and language use in poetry. It’s an extensive spring of knowledge with vital nuggets of knowledge students need to tap from as they study, respond to, analyze, write poems, and also answer examination questions about poetry. Section C of this book checks the learners’ understanding of what they have grasped so far. It has numerous poems with Questions and Answers (Q/A), allowing the learner to practice the knowledge gained. The tail-end section of this anthology-cum-poetry encyclopedia comprises poems and questions. The answers are in the students’ minds and with sufficient information already given in the other sections, Section D is a real test of what the students would have as homework to keep them engaged, refreshed, and well-equipped. In its entirety, this anthology is a visible witness that young people have all they need to become great creatives, thinkers, solution-givers, opinionists, storytellers and all that is at their disposal to become. It is a gift to society, a fruit of well-cultured minds, an overflow of correctly-chaperoned youngsters with all potential on their hands, an epitome of what youths can become if well-informed, timely-tapped, and positively-impacted and allowed to become.

AFRICA, MY MOTHERLAND

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Africa, My Homeland is an anthology that draws poets from various parts of Kenya. It explores the virtuous love for Africa, as their mother - mother of their dreams. In an aim to revive the lost glory of African Literature, the poets have inked the tantalising poems in a common hub.

The Child is Black By Sr. Esther Jeru...

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The Child is Black is a poetry collection of sixty poems that date back to over a decade ago written with a feminine touch while didactically instigating values, philosophizing life as well as entertaining readers by means of mnemonic effects and subtle humor. The writer takes on various personae so as to effectively and limitlessly speak. The poet (author) is currently a teacher of English at St. Georges Girls Eldoret. She is a graduate of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (Summa Cum Laude) and a part time post Graduate student of Mount Kenya University Thika. She is also a Catholic nun belonging to the congregation of Franciscan Sisters of The Immaculate Conception, Kenya Region.

The Girl of Red Beauty

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In these thirteen chapters of verse, titled The Girl of Red Beauty, Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange captures voices of the people of Gusii, AbaGusii, through their songs, proverbs and play games. The voices pronounce AbaGusii philosophies, fears, moods, and tempo as they work and traverse the hills and the valleys that constitute the Gusii Highlands. The element of the poetry here emanates from the beliefs, norms, proverbs, sayings, wisdom, songs, stories, and the environment, all of which combine to produce a presence of living souls. The personas fully manifest in an active environment, whereby, at every strum of the lyre and roll of the drum, the verse comes alive. Welcome, sing and dance along. What Others Say Nyamwange writes in the trend of African oral tradition with his poetry using local imagery and idioms, and of simple and direct language. "It affirms valuable continuity with pre-colonial African culture synthesized with other cultures to create something unique.” – Dr. Chris Okemwa, Author, Poet and Lecturer in Literary Studies. “The uniqueness of the anthology of this poetry lies in the thorough depiction of the culture of AbaGusii from different facets such as marriage, circumcision, religion, environment through poetry. The work resembles great poetry such as Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol.” – Dr. Andrew Nyongesa, Editor and Literary Scholar

The Gong: A collection of Poems

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"A very good insight into the writer's perception of life - as a child, the woes of African teachers, life and death, religion, prostitution, marriage, witchcraft, love, hatred and existence. "These poems are genuine; and convey the heartfelt experiences of a very sensitive, honest and articulate spirit. You can tell that Christopher is talented. "Poetry is a concentrated form of expression. It's not for the prosaic or the talkative. Christopher is fortunate to belong to the class of humans who can say a lot in a few words." - Charles Phebi-Agyekum, Author "Christopher Okemwa is a master of mixing the voice of rapture with despair, an exceptional voice, in many ways unlike the usual voice we hear from Africa , longing to unravel the secrets of life and of love, striving to reach the unreachable, accomplished and lyrical." - Anna Petkova Mwangi “The Gong is an excellent work that engages the reader. Each poem leads to a journey; a weaving of Stories, Sayings and Truths, each one creating an imprint on the mind. It is an unforgettable experience and a remarkable record of the times which must be shared.” - Estella Muyinda

Ominous Clouds

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Ominous Clouds is a collection of poems that have specifically been selected from previous works by the author. The collection comprises of poems with the theme of Kenyan politics. Issues of governance, negative ethnicity and political violence are tackled. The poems have been translated to Finnish, Norwegian and Greek. These multiple translations enable the poetry to travel around the globe and beyond the readership in English, the original language in which they were written. As the translators have noted, the translations offer readership in the said languages to learn about the country Kenya as captured in the poetry.

Raindrops and Roses by Patrick Lavince

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Raindrops & Roses is a bouquet of poems – poems of discernment and love; governance and patriotism; law and societal indoctrination; mental health and affirmations; loss and grief – flowers of hope planted by the flowing waters beneath the white of eyes. The book is a full-length poetry anthology and comprises of two books in one. Book 1: Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon. Book 2: Unsent Letters. This anthology of poems ticks all boxes, colours the parts that were void of light and is the ultimate prize of love.