Tag: picture challenge

• The lone bird is done singing

  The lone bird is done singing,and the migratory season is here.It has joined its clanto sail across the sky,to a new land. We cannot help but keep lookingwhere it once stood, singing.The lone bird is no more,only echoes of its voice. Like nicknamesof old high school friendsheld together in indelible inkagainst fading classroom walls,your name…

  Benjamin Nambu

  October 13, 2025

  Classic

  bird, Creative writing, nature, picture challenge, picture prompt, poem, Poetry, prompt, Sadje’s picture prompt

• Love ripens slowly

  Love ripens slowlyBonds deepen softlyAnd I, with my impatienceHave ruined many opportunitiesLike some black sheepdressed in greenTo light up the screenFor all to see InexperienceAnd the lack of humility to learnTwo rodentsThat have ruined many beautiful beginnings https://wp.me/paf3ao-lZh

  Benjamin Nambu

  October 9, 2025

  Classic

  love, picture challenge, picture prompt, poem, poet, Poetry, prompt, relationship

• Holidays

  Whenever we were caught up with so much work in the office, we longed for public holidays. Then like rain on thirsty lands, we receive some update on a WhatsApp platform or online news website: some public holiday had been announced and was lurking behind the uninformed, waiting to see their surprised looks and giggles…

  Benjamin Nambu

  September 19, 2025

  Classic

  challenge, Creative writing, flash fiction, picture challenge, prompt, Sadje’s picture prompt

• I prepare the food basket

  As I hurried with the basket of food over my headin the direction of the farm, I imagine the scene awaiting me: Students scattered across acres of yam moundsSome tilling, others weeding, the majority (girls)carrying weeds further off the farmland to be burnt I arrive, after a long walk towards the outskirts of the village…

  Benjamin Nambu

  August 25, 2025

  Classic

  Creative writing, picture challenge, picture prompt, poem, Poetry, prose poem