The weaver woman.

She weaves a quilt.
A blanket of pain.
Chain stitches
Back stitch
Running stitch.
She weaves a
generation of trauma.
Sweaters of pain
For her children
And their children
Trauma.

The Unapologetic Poet-

#poet #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #trauma #women

Don't touch my breasts!

Tase me to the ground
Throw me against
The hood of your car
and handcuff me
But don't touch my chest
Don't let my breasts
Bear the shame of arrest

The Unapologetic Poet-

Photo credit: Musiime Abdu

#poetry #PoliceBrutality
#Uganda #activist #women #poetrycommunity

The drumming stops...
Guitarist lures me to a dreamy
utopia with a series of arpeggios
and broken chords.
Takes me on a euphoric ride
without protection.
He moans a bluesy melody
Strums the strings of my
vintage heart in vibrato
Heavenly eloquence caressed
on a fret board

#poetry #poet #blues

Is Uganda free? 🇺🇬
Did Uganda leave the bedroom of the British protectorate?

We chant freedom while injustices buzz around the city like bees.

Well, Happy Independence Day to Uganda!

The Unapologetic Poet-

#poem #independenceday #uganda #freedom #poet #63years

Passports are the new shackles in Human trafficking.
The unsettling #dubaiportapotty BBC investigative documentary that follows the death of Ugandan girl called Monica in Dubai reminded me of this poem.

The Unapologetic Poet-

#humanity
#humantraffickingawareness
#slavery
#poetry
#humanity

Body politics

The Unapologetic Poet-

#body #poetry #poet #woman #feminist #activism #poem #picturepoem

From the fortress of muxima in
Angola to Robben island in
South Africa.
From Mountain Kilimanjaro
In Tanzania to the Bujagali
Falls in Uganda.
Mine is a story of the night.
An enchanting delight.

The Unapologetic Poet-
#Africa #AfricaDay #poetrycommunity #spokenword #poet

I am the famed litany of 
infamous blame.
Criticism is smudged on the 
bottom of cocktail glasses.

I am a poet’s penance.
The blues and the spirituals.
Old words in new skin 
clothed in nonentity.

The Unapologetic Poet-

#poetry
#WorldPoetryDay #poetryday #spokenword

This! 🌷

#poetry #poetrycommunity

May joy become
A resident in your
Home
May love paint a
Smile on your face
May the spirit of the
Season bring you closer
To your family.

And as you trim the
Tree, I hope that
You'll be merry.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

The Unapologetic Poet-

🎀
What is a person 
Living with HIV 
Supposed to do when 
The world feels like
A dim lit cell
When the stigma
Screams at every turn
Who gives her hope
to endure the torturous
Anguish of hoping 
Hoping for acceptance.

#EndAIDS2030Ug #WearTheRedRibbon
#WorldAIDSDay
#poetry

⭐ Day 2 #16daysofactivism against Gender based violence Poem

Regret could
Barely resuscitate
his misdeeds.
Tendencies are ironies in wait
Life is costly wearing these
stitches on my lips,
face and thighs

The Unapologetic Poet-

#poetry #NoExcuse

For Rebeca Cheptegei

Your world stopped
When he made you
A statistic
He doused you
In petrol and set your
Body on fire.
Shattering your
Dreams as an athlete

You are remembered,
Rebecca Cheptegei

The Unapologetic Poet-

#16DaysOfActivism against Gender based Violence