When I look at how putting words on paper is now an intricate part of my life, I can’t help but laugh. You see I wasn’t much of a writer earlier in life. It was always a task I dreaded and as the primary school holiday ended, the usual “what I did during the holiday”…
Chronicles Of A Fire Starter
It always begins with a spark, that bright symbol of ignition. Rock against rock, metal against metal, the match against a box. A flicker, a glimmer, the speck of a potential flame. You see I’ve always been a bit of a fire starter. As a young child in a matchbox I saw excitement when my…
Chronicles Of World Suicide Prevention Day!
I like to think of myself as someone who always goes against the grain, a rough cut steak that makes for bites difficult to chew and digest. It’s not that I just want to be against what everyone else is doing but I’m a person of my own mind. My world view is twisted through…
Chronicles Of Grief
Life often feels like the most permanent of things. Existence the immovable object and we have no choice but to just carry on through it’s countless seasons. To embrace whatever weight is thrown on our shoulders and just dredge on, one foot after the other. We’re held captive in a cycle that seems to go…
Chronicles Of Afro Lit #WinterABC2022
In my earlier years (8-13) I was an avid reader, and what made me fall in love with reading was the Harry Potter series (along with the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew). I discovered the series when 6 books were already out and I was hooked. JK Rowling had me hanging on her every word…
Chronicles Of The Feeling Of Africa #WinterABC2022
The amazing continent of Africa. All 50 something countries, numerous tribes and over a thousand dialects. Among that array of people you’ll find my heart. I mean this figuratively and literally too because I was born and raised here, and I’ve never left the continent but not for a lack of trying though. You can…
Chronicles Of Patriotism And The Continent #WinterABC2022
What is the duty of every citizen to their country? Well that is if they have a duty to it and it’s not the country that should serve them. There’s so much onus that is put on citizens and so many times it seems like a deflection of responsibility by those in power. Leadership interested…
Chronicles Of A Poem For The Potential #WinterABC2022
I am a concept not yet fully grasped by most. I am a bird finding my wings but they were never lost. I am an artist with a blank canvas waiting for the brushstrokes of tomorrow I am not the mistakes of my past but the dreams of my future. I am not valued based…
Half Thoughts 