East African Regional Institute for Legal & Policy Studies

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14/12/2017

'CHARMING THAT WO-MAN'

She was four times,
His height, at four meters,
But would level, in sheets,
Every shift,
Upon the cover of no lights.

He often, looked her in the eyes,
At any chance, letting her know,
He took deep sighs, at any sight,
Like Patel or Singh, in the twilight,
Chancing at one for two, at night.

They often opened thier minds,
But locked some bits of body,
Since everyone loves somebody,
Anyway, every day,
Like a daily loaf.

Not your daily lovey-dovey,
Charming each other like divas,
The difference in heights,
Made the two to tangle,
Like John Rambo,
In the thickest of bamboo.

At night, she swallowed,
All, that would be allowed,
Like Halloween,
Mixing safety and savagery.

Never minding the biological,
Remittance, part of ecology,
Needing no apologies,
The two breathing the gas,
With out fass.

'CHARMING THAT WO-MAN'

Benmak Savior
13/12/2017

08/11/2017

Social Protection capacity building for forest communities in Tanzania

08/11/2017

29/09/2017

'THE DEAD HAVE MET THE LIVING'

It is 3am, cold and windy,
Banana leaves blowing staccato,
Crying, singing, togikwatako,
Like Kampala Mayor, Lukwago,
Crying like baby Nakato,
Or Comedian Lubwama Kato
Yelling, ngikwatako.

There's a somber mood across the village,
All efforts won't be spillage,
The dead must meet the living,
Reminding them, of the adage,
The dead are not dead, at large.

The r**e, has again begun,
Of the most tempest of justice at large.
History, repeating itself at large,
Planting a permanent grudge.

'THE DEAD HAVE MET THE LIVING'
Benmak Savior
28/9/2017

26/09/2017

THE GIRL WHO PULLED HER PANTS BY THE STRING

When all is said and done,
I shall lay bare, flat, so undone,
As the escapades of mother earth,
Really, never end, till we do wither.

I reminisce in cold weather,
The thought of her giving me fever,
Like a dog licking himself in cold weather,
Or a campus girl gnashing lever,

THE GIRL WHO PULLED HER PANTS BY THE STRING

Every morning, in the dire cold dew,
We, undressed, for the physical education,
Pointing to the teachers direction,
Even when big boys had erec-tion,
As big girls pulled thier pants to action,
Stretching their strings, whew,
Causing unnecessary action!

The teacher, zooming her eyes through,
Bare boys chests, but strong, piercing through,
As we sang morning songs,
Like the one of rice and stew,
That made me hungry before noon,
Like the hyena dancing before the moon.

The other, was damn no good song,
As it called, all of us young sheep,
That looked like a meandering ship,
I mean, pirates campus-less thing,
That lived by fate and fall.

Only that I saw the girl who pulled,
Her pants by the cloth-woolen string!

Benmak Savior
25/9/2017

22/09/2017

THE BOY WHOSE KITE FLEW AWAY

As day followed night,
He looked up in the sky,
Body, stretching high,
Chasing the kite,
The wind, blowing south.

The sun turning wild,
Him sneezing his nose,
Chasing the wind,
Like Kasimoni, the village witch,
Smoking her pipe, in the middle of the night.

Stretching his elbows and ribs,
He zoomed down the hill,
Like Mo Hill, and his love on the hill,
Or the Rohingya ,
On the tumultuous journey.

THE BOY WHOSE KITE FLEW AWAY..

The village girls came across,
The awesomeness to see him cross,
Like a meteorite,
He ran, beyond his breath,
To impress, the village queens,

My heart cowardly throbbed,
At the loss, of my village queen..
Must I have suffered a broken tooth?

THE BOY WHOSE KITE FLEW AWAY..

The thread gave way,
As he tried to impress anyway,
As we gasped for mother air,

The sweat from his arm pit,
The fall from glory,
The youthful goatee smell,
To hell be the glory,
For the boy whose kite flew away.

Benmak Savior
21/9/2017

08/06/2016

Capacity building for district planners in policy analysis

22/11/2015

Uganda Bastille capacity building in partnership with katimakantu.Ltd..occupational health and safety

04/08/2015

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