Ewange Gye Nsula
Mu kisasi gye nsula,Bbinika bye bikopo!Ebigambo bijjira ku kamasu,Nga zziga lya Wammese.Mu kalippagano, zaakwebera,Ogukola tegukola,Ezaali essaala...
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Loved Ones
In lifeSpecial ones we loveLeave at a certain pointWe then mourn themInstead of cherishingand celebrating themTo thank the heavens,for the special...
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Sanitized mouths
How do we make the sound?Sound so pretty,With the lungs of the worldRunning on the borrowed respirator?Corona making us run out of F*cksWith...
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Eyatta Ben
Eyatta Ben Eyatta Ben Zaali mbira, Ow’obutiiti yawubwa Ekiwato namuziga, Obwekulungufu Bwamufa busa! Eyatta Ben Muwulenge, Omwoyo gwanoba Ekituli...
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I won’t write mother another praise poem
I won’t write a woman a thingTo ink a clean dry sheetPost her on social media, she won’t seeOr hide her name in a book, she...
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FEMRITE READING
The Uganda Women Writers Association – FEMRITE is an indigenous, non-governmental, non-profit making women’s organization publishing...
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Tired of being a metaphor
Grateful for the angels Who watch the street lights, That watch me roam the streets past mid-night. Looking for the ships that have long left the...
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Hypothermia
Risking cardiac arrhythmias, I soaked my heart in ice water, Lowering core temperature in the proverbial dirge of pretence. To deliver joy to men...
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Needles and Hospital Bedsheets
For the 20th time the nurse pricks my left hand in a futile search for blood veins that have long given up appearance. She looks tired, its...
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Stray Bullet
But when I met you in the fluorescent lights of the Heart Institute corridors. Your smile a parade of stars willing to open church doors to the...
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