About the author
Welcome to Nyokabi’s Poetry
I hope you can find your voice in mine and we can tell our stories together. I hope my voice can call out yours and yours will call out another and the other another and another.
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God and Me
The thing about desire
This is the thing about desire,
It is not enough
but it is strong enough- for a moment.
Poetry
Do not fret
and when you fret about the now
you are missing that white streak on clear blue sky,
God and Me
Imagine Truth
Imagine truth showing up at Sunday brunch,
marinading confrontations while Grace overpowers words of advice
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A grunt escaped from the woman lying next to him. He glanced sideways and saw that his leg had stapled Iya Tope, his second wife, to the bed. He observed
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Good Reads; The River and the Source by Margaret A Ogola
“A home without daughters is like a spring without a source.”
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“His hand gripped mine with pain-induced strength that crushed my knuckles together.
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Good Reads; Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ifemelu is a girl you want to love and smack at the same time, but still deeply resonate with.
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Good Reads; The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Nothing can beat the determination to be your truest self; and that is the Power of One.