Comments on: A Poet Realizes He Is Human

By: Ngwatilo

Ngwatilo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:53:01 +0000

*sigh* Sam, you say things so well. Me, I just lash out, you are elegant. perhaps youare more a poet than i shall ever be.

By: Alex Gachanja

Alex Gachanja — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:52:21 +0000

there goes the globalization effect, we’ve a huge number of incoming potents panting to find a place to rest, once it’s in the poetry arena, you’ll have to use something more than industrialization to get them off the ground. if

anything, true poets begets true prophets, false poets false prophets

By: Bwaya

Bwaya — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:47:49 +0000

How things change…once upon a time, whenever I took off on flights of fancy and started engaging in loud monologue with the voices in my head or conversing with the gods…they’d stop and stare, then one would whisper…”ah that’s Bwaya, he’s a poet.” so the fact that now you’d expect the words “I am a poet” to be met with awe is funny because those three words were synonymous with the phrase “I am mad.”

By: sammy

sammy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:14:21 +0000

the very essence of poetry may be abused in it’s use, but poets should have one thing in mind, we should struggle to redeem poetry. poetry should feed mind and soul, poetry should wash away our tears, poetry should connect humanity, so poetry should portray our heart, mind and soul. in this way we should connect, we are part of humanity.

By: karanja bk

karanja bk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:00:43 +0000

Would love to hear a banker’s take … or an accountant’s and other ;’crisis’ managers’ takes …

By: Kombani

Kombani — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:59:11 +0000

@Kingwa: I am a banker! Clearly, Sam’s lady banker is not one of us!

@ Sam, nice work. Made me sit back and ask myself so many questions.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:59:27 +0000

Sam, u just sweep over my feet! gooose pumps as i go through your articles..keep up!

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:23:56 +0000

I think this is an ironical piece hitting at the conservative poets who have no time for the new breed.Or am I missing something? Anyhow this is quite a refreshing read.Keep up Kwani!!

By: Rozzie

Rozzie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:56:32 +0000

Samuel has a fantastic awakening – the poetry and literature we did in school is to blame – where the exciting poems had the rhymes, and we got lots of encouragement if we could write like so too. The audience also wants poetry for entertainment than for reflection therefore hoping to hear flowing words (as Khan puts it-floetry).

I think Once a poet matures, his/her poems will, mature to more than mere words.

Thank you Samuel for that awakening call – continue to keep all the poets on toes.

By: Mutuiri Gitonga R

Mutuiri Gitonga R — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:28:44 +0000

@Kingwa, Lol!! At least the poets are discovering they are human, as for bankers, well, I rarely visit banking halls lest I haul a stone at the tellers, you see, being the , wait, let me write a piece about the banker