Patrick Wafula

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Patrick Wafula

Patrick Wafula helps establish the various haiku clubs in Nairobi.
Patrick Sensei, thank you !

BAHATI Haiku Club, Kenya
PEACOCK Haiku Club, Kenya
SPIDER Haiku Club, Kenya

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Patrick Wafula's Bizzare Tales
"I love teaching children and writing stories for them. I also enjoy writing stories for the youth and adult. "

Read these fascinating tales online
http://bizzaretales.blogspot.com/


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HAIKU by Patrick Wafula

RONALD NGALA STREET, Nairobi



hooting matatus
dashing pedestrians
restlessness

March 2006

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Bourgainvillea



flowers blossom again-
bougainvillea
blooms pink

Dedicated to Madame Gabi and Madam Isabelle

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The Long Rain, April 2006



it is green all over-
farmers stoop on their farms
all morning


green fields
the green grasshopper
is back

Soweto stage market
women buy cabbages
vyondos are full

muddy shoes
muddy classrooms
students mop classrooms

muddy shoes
a queue at the shoeshine
muddy door mats

flooded Nairobi River
a drowned corpse
people mourn

muddy vehicles
queues at car wash
towing services busy

muddy roads
matatus are stuck
pensive faces

muddy shoes
muddy offices
cleaners stoop all day

green meadow
a hare eats grass leisurely
a browsing antelope

amarantus sprout again
women no longer buy veges
vegetable prices fall

flooded farms
soil erosion all over
a farmer builds gabbions

Makini School Bus stuck
pupils are late
worried faces

evening rain
rush hour in Nairobi
fare goes up

midday rain
she covers her head hair with juala
unhappy women

balmy morning
a robin leaps in the garden
dew on roses

frogs emerge-
termites flying
in the drizzle

Lake Victoria is flooded-
ngege is back
on our tables

...........................ngege: type of fish


the yellow butterfly-
hovering over
trees and flowers

farmers weed-
the wandering jew
sprouts again

rabits feed-
macdonald's eye
sprout again

farmers weed-
datura strumonium
sprouts again

cattle grow fat-
nappier grass grows
from the earth

flooded houses in Soweto-
a woman drains water
from her house

acacia leaves sprout-
students seat under
its shelter

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Soweto Stage Market, April 2006



at Soweto Stage Market-
women buy cabbages
vyondos are full

*vyondos* are kikuyu traditional baskest made of sisal and polythane papers.





at Soweto Stage Market-
Sowetans buy fresh tomatoes
to prepare lunch





mangoes are back-
hawkers push wheelbarrows
selling mangoes

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World Cup haiku, June 2006

men without tv sets
go out to watch world cup---
lonely wives at home

tv sets are bought from
electronics shops at Luthuli--
smiling Asians

two form one boys fight
over Ronaldihno's photo
the cane cracks

world cup has done it---
Erick Okello is absent
from school today

two form two boys
quarrel over Thiery's photo
noise in class

on Luthuli street---
a man carries a new huge
television set

excited fans mill
in the electronics shops--
televisions are bought

Germany beats Sweden--
pandemonium in Stuttgart
and bottles on the streets

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cold dawn
sleepy Soweto shrouded
in grey mist

March 2009


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