Storymoja Blog – On this Day…
November 17th, 2009 | Published in News, Reading | 22 Comments
Boniface, when his book, Peanut and the Burning Tank was launched in 2008
This week’s blog is dedicated to Boniface Gachugu; writer, poet, friend and brother, who left us this Saturday 14th of November 2009. May he rest in peace, and may we celebrate the life he lived, by being ever stronger, ever better, ever truer, by writing more and more, because he was a man who loved words, and shared them with us, in his stories and his poems, in his laughter and his friendship.
Here is a poem that Boniface loved and shared with his truest friends:
On this day
On this very day,
Mend a quarrel
Search out a forgotten friend,
Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust,
Write a love letter,
Gift a soft answer,
Encourage youth.
Manifest your loyalty,
In a word or deed
Keep a promise,
Find the time,
Forgo a grudge
Forgive an enemy
LISTEN…
Apologize if you are wrong
Try to understand
Examine your demand on others
Floor down envy
Appreciate; laugh a little more
Inspire confidence
CARING
A heart full of thankfulness
A soul of simple hopefulness
A thimble of care
An early morning,
A smile to greet the morning with,
A kind word as key,
To open the door and great the day;
Whatever it brings to thee;
A patient trust in providence
To sweeten all the way
All these combined with thoughtfulness,
Will make a happy day
Peanut
I leave you with those words, as I usher you into this week’s readings.
We begin with a piece from a writer who is fairly new on the Storymoja Writer’s blog. Please welcome him by offering honest and clear critique to his piece: Weathers of Life by Peter Yieko Ndiwa.
Are our dreams and yearnings just illusions that keep us from getting where we should be? Whispers of the Unheard by Marvin Tumbo.
Who is he? I am Dust by Steve Mwangi Ichungwa.
Once again she drops by to regale us with tales from the mystical land of Swahili. The New Thatch Hut by Sandra Mushi.
Though the pain is raw and fresh, Boniface would have liked us to spend a moment lost in the laughter of his words, and so here I leave you one of the pieces he submitted to the Writers’ Blog very recently. It is a piece I have no doubt many of you will identify with and enjoy. So here… First Day in College and Reporting by Boniface Gachugu
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