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Bahati Haiku Poetry Club
April 2006


Fresh green kales
Shining at the bright glint
Starvation is gone

Large round pears
Everyone sucks on them
As we dash or doze

Gumboots on legs
umbrellas in hand
grump croaks from frogs

Sprouting green grass
Dew-wetted leaves
A morning breeze

A cold chill at night
Beneath woolen blankets
The crickets chirp

Water-borne diseases
Students’ thinking capacity low
Systematic sneezes

Catherine Njeri

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Dark lowly clouds
showers of raindrops
flooding earth surface

Heavy rain drops
hitting earth’s floor forcefully
rivers and lakes filled

Mud everywhere
Gumboots on everyone’ legs
Cold breeze blows across

Running everywhere
Sharp heavy drops of rain
Water overflows

Grey cloud cover
Colourless drops of rain
Withered crops rise again

Jembes on shoulders
On the way to the shambas
Waited rain drops
………. *jembe * a hoe.


Strange birds fly up
Frogs crock butterflies fly
Black ants emerge

Umbrellas spread high
Heavy drops land on them
A man shivers hard

Blue gurgling river
Water lilies sprout
Dragon flies fly round

Green grasshoppers
Long nappier grass all over
Cattle grow fatter

Farmers toil
Weeds all over the shambas
Rabbits celebrate

Sweet scented flowers
Colorful butterflies
Peppergrass sprouts

Cyprian Awino

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Garisa downpour
Animals sniff and lick the water
Kids splash on mud

A helicopter over head
Flooded residence
people flee to high ground

Open umbrellas
Pedestrians dashing along
Puddles on the streets

Sound of water dropping on roofs
Colorful reflections of streetlights
On the wet pavements

A foggy Marsabit
A plane disappears
Government mourns

Coffins out of the plane
Pallbearers with open umbrellas
Moyale burial

Raymond Atieno

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EXAMS

Start stop time on the board
White papers in front of them
Teachers watch by

Raymond Atieno Form 2E


Muddy shoes
Tidiness first priority
A queue at the water tap

Catherine Njeri F2


He is back again
Patrick Sensei with his camera
Chasing after insects

Catherine Njeri F2


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Catch and hold it
The Sensei shouts to members
Nature cherishes the soul

Stuck vehicles
Wherever the journey ends
Agitated drivers

Flags half mast
Kenya is mourning
A peace making decree

A terrible plane crash
A county’s shock
Lamentations all over

Bent backs
Sweat trickles
As women toil

Blooming flowers
The river gurgles
Sweeping crops

White shiny butterflies
Silent grasshoppers
Strolling over the wet grass

Happy Easter
All clad in glamour
A holiday for all

Kilifi Nematode
Firmly stuck to the ground
It is fresh and strong

Catherine Njeri F2

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Sweep glances on sky
Gibbous moon in control
Scattered stars glitter

Cyprian Awino F3


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