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EXPOSED!

I just sit
Waiting and then pray
I then repeat
Telling myself its gonna be okay
I try to sing
But the melody does not make any sense
I bring myself back to myself
Summoning my innermost faith
Faith in God
I then lay down and sleep
Whilst trying very hard not to weep


Still..,Mine is a decent story
In comparison to others out there
With dreams gone awry
I see myself with victory
Maybe today; Maybe tomorrow
But I’m still drawn to sorrow

For I am wiser now
Free to live my truth
And let Love be
In Jesus will I trust
The lasting Peace for my days
I will talk
Of nothing other than Hope
In a world where gloom is in bloom
I will try to be..
An extension of His Light
A Joy to the mad world
A smile to the constant frowns
Warmth to the cold reality
Love to the resident evil
Bounty when scarce is commonplace
A Faithful Keeper
A solution than a problem
Colours of the rainbow
A part of Heaven down here
Just be me...
For The world could use something different at least!


jazzkuria
-END-

Love's The Greatest

'And now abideth faith,hope,love; but the greatest of these is LOVE'.1 corithians 13:13. Love-'Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoices nt in iniquity but in the truth.'
Love- 'bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, endures all things'
Love recognises the reality of the pain, bt beyond the pain love sees a victory and a triumph.love is a creative force that can bring good out of evil,even redemptive power out of a cross,- love never faileth' ..charles allen.

LOVE IS ALL THERE IS- The series

Love is a very powerful emotion
It is often the most confused and controversial
Usually spoken of being blind;
Love answers and seldom questions
It is in the heart of the beholder
The DNA of His Awesome Wonder
It defines most of our actions and Inactions.
It makes us breathe; Jump; Shout; Sing; Hustle; Makes us want to lie down..Just makes us move.
It inspires; makes us perspire and never expires!
It lifts us up when we are down
It is always deep within when all else is gloom
Asking us to summon it constantly and consistently
For Love Is ALL There Is!
Love is the warmth in the Smile
Love is the crisp of the morning breeze
Love is the soothing of a comforting hug
Love is the melody of the bird perched next to your bedroom window
Love is the friendship we never want to loose
The kiss from a loved one.
Love is the contentment of a Peaceful heart
Love is the reaction of a prayer answered
Love is the serene of ocean waves;
The rays of the setting sun;
The snowballs in winter;
The Lion playing with her cubs;
The rain pouring from the heavens;
The tree that gives us the shade;
The song we dance ourselves loose;
The footprints we etch along the sandy beach;
It is the air that sweeps our face;
It is in the clothes we wear;
The red in the roses;
The Ham in the Burger;
It is The All In All!
God Is Love!
But why is Love not pronounced and announced everyday? Every time? At all moments?
Why is it so easy to see hurt? Pain? Jealousy? Anger? Envy? Ugliness? Yea, why do these come so easy for us? Why do they entangle us with such cheap effort? Exactly, Where Is The Love?
Thats the journey I wish we begin from here..
The Journey that Love Is All There Is.
The Journey Of everything Love.
Me and You.Love!
It starts with just one person
It starts with ME!
Care to Join?

-END-
Jazzkuria (c)

THE PROPOSITON

My good friend,Gichingiri Kuria, says the “the mind is a terrible thing”
His paradoxical interpretation is obviously objectionable but i respect his perspective of our human psyche.I wont go to the extent of how abysmal or otherwise our minds can get but if there is anything I would tell my mind is.............

(Dear Jazz’s Mind...)

Never dwell on a thought that does not represent Who I Am.
Please never give flesh to the skeletal image of conformity
Never breathe life into the nostrils of subjectivity
Not even once make believe the captivity of negativity
To never limit its Potential! Especially this to never do Ever!!
I would beseech my mind to filter out representations of any manner that read mediocrity
Fight with all its might any contradicting thought of Who I Am at just its first sight
I would plead it to remain in a simple state of Faith
To constantly bring to itself meditations closely held within my spirit definations of True Me
That I am the Promise Of God
The evidence of His Love
Fearfully and Wonderfully made
The Head and not the tail
The Victor and Not the victim
That I can do ALL things through Christ who Strengthens me
The conceptualized idea of God’s brilliance
The Product of God’s supreme creativity
Yea, all these and more
I would beg for it to retain within its bank everything that is Hope , Love , Joy , Peace....
I would humbly recommend that it make exercise a daily habit..To Read! Read and Read some more!
I’d seek that it inquires for more Wisdom , Knowledge and Understanding
This should be its task; routine; commitment.....Its Purpose
But thats just me, I don’t know what it makes of all this!

Yours faithfully,
(C) jazzkuria

prayer

It vaguely starts with a subliminal longing
Slowly transforming itself into a cognisant
The request is subsequently sent; confidently premeditated on longevity
It beckons for Love.
Love, entwined with passion and freedom blossoms into the desired evidence of the heart.
Finally the need held by candid soul reveals itself into reality.
Only then do you realize that your Faith has met HIS Will....In Jesus Name
The manifestation of a prayer answered!
Or is It?

-END-

(c) jazzkuria

THE SEEKING ...Part 2!

Oh , this life of mine!
So its said we are who we are on the inside,Huh?
And the seeking continues...
What’s the soul’s horizon?
The extent of its vision?
The scope of its wisdom?
The breadth of its knowledge?
The bounty of itself?
How come it always understands the truth of me?
Well adept of my very concept
The inside me so to speak
The Intricate; Intrinsic; Opus; My Sonata, Generic that is Me
Yea, the highest thoughts of me are from my soul
How come , my body is always in conflict with the soul?
And why the conflict in the first place?
Why the eternal strict between these two of me?
What does the soul know that my mind can’t fully comprehend?
And the body is just as clueless to say the least?
If, plainly as possible, would its etchings on tablets say of me?
Would I be shocked beyond wonder that I know nothing of I?
Would I be surprised that I live that which is below of me?
Or would I pause at the magnificence of the essence that is Me?
Would I behold the awesomeness of the Divine when God breathed my being and I became life?
Would I shout? Collapse? Run beserk? Stand still? Be rendered speechless when I see the results of my doing(s) against that of my being?
Will I then deny or accept?
Will I share the same with my family? Friends? With You?
What’s to my soul?
Tell me, what does it mean to when its asked “who are you?”
D o I seek to say that which my mind has collectively put into my conscious what I have described myself with time or say that which my soul knows very well of myself?
Again, what is the answer when I ask who are you?
Do I then live short of my soul’s expectation?
Have I put a limit on my unlimitlessness?
Have I sought to DO than to BE?
Am I a human BEING living a life of a human DOING?
This soul of mine!
It’s bigger than I think!
The grand reservoir of all that is Faith, Hope, Desire, Joy, Sorrow, Love, Feeling...; Everything.
The mind is at its command, or otherwise. The body at the behest of the mind of that which the mind has received from the soul..or otherwise.
So who is boss over whom? Who rules? Who defines me? That is I..
My Soul? My Mind? My body?
Who speaks of my true self?
Oh this Life of mine!

-END-

(c) jazzkuria

THE SEEKING

We seek to be
We seek for the deeper meaning
We seek to fight for the just cause
We seek The Light ;not to deny darkness (its just dark) but coz our own light is not as bright
We seek to work for a justified pay
We seek to love in earnest; Truthfully. No holds barred. No conditions. Just Love!
We seek to learn and lose the unwarranted ignorance
We seek to pray; not as an obligation but as a cherished communion with HIM whom we owe our existence
We seek to share; not as a duty but out of the abundance
We seek to speak openly if only to communicate our truth
We seek to remain healthy ; to look beautiful and not for impression’s sake but as a genuine expression of Who We Are.
We seek to be truly thankful from our hearts and make it a habit
We seek Peace; the serenity to just abide and not brew conflict when others opinions are not same as ours.
We seek Joy and not just for the bliss but as a deepest compliment of our sorrow.
We seek to radiate God’s Glory in everything and not the cheap alternative of the earthly fame for our ego
We seek to relate and not out of need but out of a deep sense to see our true selves reflecting from another
We seek to honestly own and not covet
We seek the freedom of being us and not confinement by living (experiencing) another’s truth which ofcourse was another’s truth and so on ...
We seek purity out of a heart’s will and not a body’s strength.




We seek to obey and not for obedience sake; ...mmmm actually , for obedience sake!
We seek to run and not faint;
We seek Courage and not Cowardice
Faith and not Fear
To Be and not just humdrum existence
We seek to seek then when we get we fail to notice then start to seek again
We win at times but for the larger part we doubt about it
And when we fail we fail to start seeking again until were sick of not seeking again
We seek in depths, in Highs, in the Narrows, in the Wide, Everywhere
We seek; if only someone; GOD, can help give us back to ourselves
This we seek But Few I do ..infact most cases I don’t.
And so I need JESUS.
For Perfection is Him and by Him and Through Him I can become
So I guess I answer myself that To Know God I Need To Be Out Of My Mind!

-END-

(c) jazzkuria

SOLITUDE

SOLITUDE
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost in the air
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care


Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all-
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall


Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and its helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure;
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain’’.

-END-

A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

NEVER GIVE UP

NEVER GIVE UP

Cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott.
Lock him in a prison cell and you have a John Bunyon, a Nelson Mandela
A sprit that fights on
Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have a George Washington.
Raise him in abject poverty and even later try to kill him by failure and you have an Abraham Lincoln
Strike him down with infantile paralysis and he becomes Franklin Roosevelt.
Burn him so severely that the doctors say he will never walk again and you have a Glen Cunningham- who set the world’s one – mile record in 1934.
Deafen him and you have a Beethoven.
Have him or her born black in a society with racial discrimination and you have a Booker T Washington, a Marian Anderson , A martin Luther King..
Call him a slow learner, “retarded” and write him off as uneducable and you have an Albert Einstein
Pile Stark odds against him and show him the trail of historical disadvantages on the path he is choosing to run ...and you get a Barrack Obama
Tell him that the cause cannot be won without a fight, blood and guns and he resists the temptation and sticks to his non-violent cause of change..and you have a Mahatma Gandhi
Born blind and still...the legendary Ray Charles
And do I need to say anything about Lewis Hamilton, Tiger Woods, Pamela Jelimo, ..et al
Tell Him he’s not photogenic and that he cant sign for Real Madrid and you get a Ronaldihno
Abandon him at 2 years old and his grandma takes him in...with a piano and a dream and you have a Kirk Franklin
Above all, Manger born ,sought to be killed when young, discriminated upon, rejected when revealed and even crucified for our redemption...now seated at the Right hand of the Father and in His Name we are Saved...Jesus the Christ
Me and you and our story not yet told...
That deserted, desolate boy or girl out there..Probably abused, written off by the society, with no education, decent livelihood, no money, barren mother, sick child, depressed father, hopeless situation, our dying world,...

Let us not give up. Let us remember that the world has no place for quitters. Let us summon our Faith; “Only be Courageous and Strong” the Lord would tell Joshua...Let us fight the good fight ; Let us be counted as worthy of our price; Let our story etch itself in the annals of History for posterity’s sake. Let our song be that hope to someone else. Let us remember the Promise.”He who is in Us is Greater than he who is in the world”. “Only be courageous and Strong”.

-END-

Partly Sampled from Philip Baker’s “Secrets of Super Achievers”.

I WISH- THE POEM

To the most beautiful girl in the world...you know yourself!

I wish of you

I wish to hold you
Under the orange sky of the setting sun sinking into the horizon
I wish to wrap my arms around you
In a locked embrace that’s genuine and true

I wish to never let go of your hand
Morning, noon and long after the day is done
I wish to look longingly into your brown eyes
And see the image of myself that I hope will never die

I wish to miss you
When you are away in the hustle and bustle of the day
When the birds sing of your pretty face and roses die of the same
I wish you miss me too
And call me up with as much to say

I wish to dance to the music of your heart
Walking beside you to the rhythm of your step
I wish to know the journey of your thoughts
To laugh with you when you’re happy
And to hold you close when the clouds above you loom grey
To kiss you when that moment comes..
And to stay silent when you need some
I wish to dip into the source of beauty you hold within
I f only to taste of the joy harboured in
A fountain of charm that overflows
I wish to be part of the enchantment
The sparkle that lights up the fire
Of love
Of hope
Of Us.

I wished of you than and still
I wish of you every moment I live
I wish of none other but you
I wish to be the one you’ve silently wished for
I wish to be part of your dreams
I wish of you and only you

I wish you now!

-END-

IN LOVIN MEMORY

Robert John philip Kuria Mugo Sr. (@26yrs)

Though you are not with us,We still hold you close to our hearts..love you pops!

- the kurias

The number one harambee stars Fan!

KENYA VS ZIMBABWE! - the wanabeez fans

HARAMBEE STARS!! -lets go boys

DEAREST

Dearest
Sum of all dreams
The crimson atop the icecream
The glitter in the midnite star
for when your near
I wish you nearer

Dearest
Love of my life
you sanction my thoughts and I think of only you
Could this be a dream comin through?
My hope becomes true
For when you are away
I wish you closer

Dearest
Apple of my eye
No one could be more lucky than I
I wish of the day you become my wife
and happiness succumb all the days of my life...
For where you are
I wish me by your side

Dearest
The longing of mine soul
lovers' recite of a poem about us
sends the tides rocking gently my heart
and then we are one and never apart
for you are
the girl i've always meant to be with
Dearest..


-END-

sawa sawa afro music /poetry event

This year Black Uhuru (Jamaica), Youssou N'Dour (Senegal), Mahotella Queens (South Africa), body percussionists Percus Normades (Benin), Habana Sax (Cuba) and Beef (Netherlands), Rajeswari Sainath (India) alongside Kenyan stars will give revelers a thrilling performance of its kind ever witnessed in Kenya on this coming or is it..next weekend??.i.e
Saturday's event(31st May) at the Nairobi Arboretum.

It will be a family day of Afro modern entertainment that is open to the public. Youssou N'Dour, Mahotella Queens and Percus Nomades along with some of Kenya's renowned artists like Kanji, Makadem and the Sarakasi Artistes will give the audience a sterling performance. To accommodate all this action will be 3 stages; The main stage, The Acrobatic/ Dance Stage and the Youth/ Open Mic Stage.


Sasini Opens another Coffee Lounge at the Museum of Kenya;Savannah NMK Lounge

Late last year, Sasini Tea and Coffee Company, more known for its growth and export of Kenyan tea and coffee, opened one of its many chain coffee lounges to be set up both in Nairobi as well as Dubai and London. The lounge was an instant success for many coffee lovers who were looking for more venue varieties, value add and the ultimate ambiance.

Barely 5 months after opening their first lounge, Sasini recently unveiled yet another coffee lounge slightly away from Nairobi's CBD.
Dobet Gnahoré; Diva from Côte d'Ivoire in Concert @ Alliance Française,

Dobet Gnahoré, a singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast, inherited the force of the "Bété" tradition from her father, Boni Gnahoré, a master percussionist who plays with the Abidjan-based Ki-Yi Mbock Company, directed by Werewere Liking. Dobet sings in a range of African languages including Bété, Fon, Baoule, Lingala, Malinke, Mina or Bambara, thereby reproducing the Pan-African tradition of the Ki Yi Mbock group.
Rhythm & Spoken Poetry @ Dass-- Friday May 16th, 08

Rhythm & Spoken
Poetry and open mic night
Dass Ethiopian restaurant, Westlands
Date: Friday May 16th 2008
The 10th Daughter of Gĩkũyũ & Mũmbi - Children of Lone Soldiers

We are the 10th daughter of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
The one spoken of in low hashed tones,
With eyes full of sadistic pity
The one who, without a husband bore outcasts,
Casting on stone the traits of children born of men but not of fathers.

Hey Girls..THis is to You!

CAUTION!
Consistency is not behaving the same way all the time, It is behaving the same way under similar circumstances.

THE LETTER

Patience! I beg of you to bear
In kindness with tender loving care
Extend it to us
For our Innocence is marked as ignorance
Our natural dispositions exalted more than our propensities
and being a man sometimes gets in our own way
You are still girls and in our world
you deserve more than diamonds and pearls
that much we know , but also
where our words fall short
our thoughts of you suffices
where our actions fail to play
our hearts pays the sacrifice
and where our realities hides in fantasies
our novice loving still to you, entices

So we ask?

what is wrong yet acceptable?
when is you NO sometimes YES?
help us decipher and not guess..
When is "still and quiet" read "seething mad"?
How does happy becomes not glad?
plz come translates go away
sit with me but don't talk
stay away but don't stray!
Help us understand your folk!

Secrets,Insights,..anything?I beg of you to share
For men are just small babies trapped in big bodies
and I'm one with no apologies

(Specifically..)
Can I take a journey thru your mind
and sort out stuff that makes me blind?
For my clues about you sometimes ain't true
and now i'm feeling worn out and blue
and this ain't cool cuz I see u as my only boo.

-HELP!-HELP!-HELP!

Can that be loud enough?
so please don't go running around to your friends
saying this and that about my loose endz
but take time and help a brutha out
for our milestone will be made
with just simple advice
that won't despise
but will sympathize and empathize
to teach some dude called jazz!

-END-

FYI

*(The thoughts and views expressed in the piece above are not exclusively the writer's own but of countless of bruthaz out there who feel women aren't that complicated but our knowledge about them is extremely underrated!)