2024-03-26 19:12
It is almost hard to picture that Gengetone music has been around for nearly seven years. The genre has established itself as one of the more popular in Kenya with many of the most streamed… Read More
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2024-02-15 18:51
A short poem by Henry Mworia Read More
2024-01-31 09:21
Kenyan woman in diaspora,possibly post-teen, slightly agedbut just a tinsy winsy bit. Surely unfed with cheek holesthat sunken eyes fall from orbit, sometimes.Blacker than you left Africa;fr… Read More
2024-01-30 12:23
Money is not mine,yet dear come want.Life is not worthliving in broken dreams.Time is a fortune,doors' un-shut needn't a-knockin'.Mine is not money,happiness walks out.The world will not run… Read More
2024-01-24 09:50
As if gender-swapped preying mantis,The hunted becomes the hunter,biting on their finest partsbefore meeting the un-fineSurface of bullet.“Fittest was survival, natural are instincts… Read More
2023-11-04 14:10
Gameweek 9
★Merseyside derby sees The Reds comfortably beat ten-men Everton. The game was tense from the start and Everton tried their best to get something against Liverpool throug… Read More
2023-10-23 03:33
6 years anniversary… Read More
2023-10-18 17:51
GAMEWEEK 8
Spurs stroke one past Luton to go top. Tottenham Hotspurs looked to make easy work of bottom-side Luton Town in the first Premier League encounter of the week. Spurs threatened… Read More
2023-10-07 09:53
Gameweek 7
Gameweek 7 was an absolute banger of a Premier League week. There were some shocking results, a halt to an unbeaten run by the most dominant team as well as very entertaining s… Read More
2023-10-02 05:02
There’s fewer things better than writing someone a poem on their birthday. Writing is not easy, especially when it comes to poetry. You have to think about the subject, come up with a… Read More
2023-09-29 14:49
Gameweek 6
The first of the London derbies ends at a draw. Crystal Palace invited Fulham over at Selhurst Park for the first game of the week. Crystal Palace were inspired with the return… Read More
2023-09-22 05:57
Somebody should come check up on this heart. How is this heart even? With all the holes and rips since she left, how can this heart be even, it ain’t all right? You see when she was in… Read More
2023-09-21 12:17
Gameweek 5
~Gunners grab a narrow win at the expense of the Toffees. Arsenal travelled to Everton. At the 18th minute, Martinelli thought he had scored for his team, but was judged to hav… Read More
2023-09-16 02:45
Modernisation as a Challenge to Forms
Forms or genres is a term used to refer to the different aspects of literature such as prose and poetry. Modernisation here refers to the evolution a… Read More
2023-09-15 13:18
An obscene panther pounced on my wayyesterdayAnd began to dance to my dismay.Eyes shot red staring into its pit,I could not show hermy bruised and battered backlest it be made a shuttered mu… Read More
2023-09-07 10:46
II.
Glass half-empty but I shattered the roof It’s grass! Long gone the days of oasis breeding with the sea, bursting at the seams, Student loans everywhere. Today I cannot even. My… Read More
2023-09-06 09:38
Gameweek 4
Gunning the Red Devils: A three goal thriller. Arsenal invited Manchester United for a classic game on Sunday at the Emirates Stadium. From the fronted lineups, questions were… Read More
2023-09-01 06:01
How are you feeling right now?I love you, I hate you, I'm on the fence, it all dependsWhether I'm up or down, I'm on the mend, transcending all realityI like you, despise you, admire youWhat… Read More
2023-09-01 03:35
I.
I am born an avocado treeUnder the pulse of electricHeavens.I am dead on arrivallike my seeds' soft-cracked skullslike my captors fence,At the mercies of termites.I am dead but choices… Read More
2023-08-29 23:17
Gameweek 3
Manchester City’s “walk over fest” almost put to an end by the Blades. When the champions of Europe came to Sheffield, they thought it would be an easy time w… Read More
2023-08-23 05:41
Gameweek 2: A Beautiful Mess?
Welcome back to my weekly review of the premier league, where you get all the news and the banter from the week’s games….
Caicedo became a &l&hell…Read More
2023-08-17 13:38
In my garden there’s a thief He thinks he remains unseen His loot gathers falls beneath To reaching hands and stubborn kids. You see my garden is a tree That makes me money, makes… Read More
2023-08-16 06:21
Gameweek One
Red Devils defang hungry WolvesIt was a shaky game for Manchester United following an unexpected showing from toothless Wolves who didn’t go down without a fig… Read More
2023-05-24 17:19
In the streets, there’s a popular phrase; to chase the bag. This refers to peoples’ efforts to make money in order to put a meal on their table. Currently the only bag-chasing ha… Read More
2023-05-10 04:28
I am glad to inform you that three of my poems have been selected to be published by the Edge of Humanity magazine. Click here to visit the post.
The Edge of Humanity is a magazine that w… Read More
2023-05-01 06:43
Hello readers. May . May your month be graced by all the little butterflies in my stomach, and that fresh baby smell I’m oozing, because this is my month . Happy May. Enjoy this po… Read More
2023-04-28 19:58
Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.
For the longest time, I have been persistently pestering the man upstairs, the OG himself, God. I have been asking Him endlessly why He al… Read More
2023-04-23 19:21
Everyone keeps telling me to run away whenever I see you. You are fire and you know just how to consume everything on your path. Funny thing is that I come alive every single time you set me… Read More
2023-04-16 19:49
Wisest Solomonhid many treasures for usyet we can't find them.BY HENRY MWORIA Read More
2023-04-12 02:56
I still live in the shadows of your fingertips embraceNailed to the words that formed around your lipsSharp as a sword they sped towards my open insidesAs your hands made no waste of time cu… Read More
2023-04-10 20:04
The Double Entendre in Poetry
A head is a body part but a head is also the leader of a family or ruling class. Truth is head has more to it than the single word would appear to have. So… Read More
2023-04-09 23:10
III.
Incensed was the man of the clothFinding the fattened goat of offeringGone without as much as a bleat.The man promised he would sacrificethe culprit who had disappearedThe readied vi… Read More
2023-04-09 03:05
II.
Reject all notions of sanityFor sanity made humanityShow God their brutality.You strung up his right hand manFor stripping you off yourCloak of sinYou beat him upThat the scribes had… Read More
2023-04-08 03:36
I.
How warm is the firewhen it burns you insideTo look at the face of your masterAfter bluntly denying on sight?How cool is the wirewhen it grasps your neck tightTo remember the sale of t… Read More
2023-04-06 14:37
How would you improve your community?
Teaching them twist….
Henry Mworia
Courtesy of Google THE UNMITIGATED TANGOThe stranger who rolls from the NorthSwallowing senselessly in one… Read More
2023-04-05 18:15
'Tis his faultThis bloke did not teeterTo tear into the formershellNeverForgetYou only have yourselfTo blameIs easyTo admitThey dance aroundLookThey play with fireAnd who gets burnt?BewareBe… Read More
2023-04-04 19:08
DIG NO SHALLOW GRAVESDearest accomplices, damned companions,dig no shallow graves for meFor I am newborn feather.Do not dig for me old pal,I do not seek to be tied too tight,I am but prolong… Read More
2022-11-25 10:09
Incase you missed out on the news, Veteran Writes now has a WhatsApp community where we get to hold serious discussions. To join, click here.
Today’s poem was composed by Henry Mwor… Read More
2022-11-20 05:47
If at first you don’t succeed, failure might be your style. I thought about losing weight once, but I’m a sore loser who hates losing. First, accept sadness. Realize that withou… Read More
2022-11-18 15:05
It is 16°C in Chebarus, Kenya. Or 8°C in Koln, Germany. Or maybe even 25°Farhenheit in Damascus, Syria. Then maybe it is not.
Geolocation, is the capability of our mobile devi… Read More
2022-11-11 12:54
Born:You are fresh of this earth,You have been immersed into water,Creature sprout of the dirt,Organism split into son or daughter,You are on a new life path,Blessing from the potter is the… Read More
2022-11-07 15:47
I recently read an awesome piece here in WordPress. If you have no clue what breadcrumbing is, visit there site immediately here.
When I was reading, I realized that I had ideally in my… Read More
2022-11-04 19:39
By Henry Mworia (Veteran) 4th November, 2022
Arsenal, the top dogs in England in 2022 have had a nice finish to their group in the Europa League. This was after they edged com… Read More
2022-10-31 16:49
As promised earlier, I will narrate to you the various mishappenings that befell me to the point of disappearing online and from WordPress for many months. Here is Part One to the story. Com… Read More
2022-10-29 06:16
Love your neighbour, love your enemy,Love the borrower, love borrowing,Love the actor, love the act,Love the job, respect the hustle.Love the neighbour, love the enemy,Enjoy the rumour, wors… Read More
2022-07-20 05:12
Hey, so I wrote down a piece over in my Facebook. It doesn’t originally have a title so let’s just go with the one above. The link below will redirect you there. Thanks.
http… Read More
2022-05-22 14:18
To be viewed by those eyes like wondrous visions of ecstasy,to be cherished by that whom you call your world,to live freely knowing that the one you find priceless is willing to get you ever… Read More
2022-05-09 05:25
Another day, another dawnThe breaking of whichFinds me restedAnother day to break the sweatYet when I wake, I am already sweating. Another day to chase the dream, But the dream runs furtherF… Read More
2022-05-03 16:37
2022-04-29 06:24
These are some verses I’ve written earlier, I decided to save up and share as a poem. Hope you will like it.
A Poem for Her
Your smile is so contagious, may you plant it on my… Read More
2022-04-26 07:28
The Late President Mwai Kibaki | Courtesy of Google Here lies the man referred to as Rais, or President if you may. Some have called him the Statesman. I’ve overheard many a people cla… Read More
2022-04-21 08:33
This is a short post to inform you that my poem “With Tears From Dear” was published in The Skeptic’s Kaddish.
Click here to visit the link to the post
You can follow… Read More
2022-04-03 10:23
Over the recent years, there have been a lot of migrations by people from developing to developed countries. This intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic and further during the tough econom… Read More
2022-03-26 09:09
He is courageous…. He is soft spoken…. He is a person living with a disability…. All these echo the reality of the current Westlands Constituency Member of Parliament, H… Read More
2022-03-19 21:32
If you have a pending HELB loan payment to make, there is some good news coming your way!
HELB logo | Courtesy of GoogleHigher Educations Loans Board (HELB) announced that they would be… Read More
2022-03-13 08:51
Covid-19, commonly known as Coronavirus became a global pandemic in the year 2020. In Kenya, Covid hit the country on March of 2020. What followed were strict measures and policies that woul… Read More
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