Category: Poetry

• Then let the star be.

  

  You diluted the majesty  that flows from her lips.

  rayawambui

  December 24, 2022

  Poetry

  art, Confidence, freedom of speach, poetry, SelfLove, SelfSabotage, Submission, TooWillingToPlease

• Dates

  

  Sugar will just never do, again.

  rayawambui

  December 17, 2022

  Poetry

  daydream, delicious, Love, memories, poetry

• Still Going

  

  …grateful for all that managed, To hold my hands through storms You saw off some thorns.

  rayawambui

  December 10, 2022

  Poetry

  Determination, Perserverance, poetry, SelfDriven, SelfLove, SelfPreservation

• How to heal.

  

  There is spiritual refuge, where the world around Refused my requests for respite.

  rayawambui

  December 3, 2022

  Poetry

  Confidence, healing, Love, poetry, SelfDefense, SelfLove, SelfPreservation, ShadowWork

• Lessons From My Daughter

  

  …adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief. Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.

  rayawambui

  November 26, 2022

  Poetry

  childhood, Children’s Rights, ChildrensRights, court, Domestic Violence, GBV, Legal defense, Love, Mother, motherhood, Mothers, poetry, SelfDefense, SelfPreservation, SGBV, The boy child, the girl child

• KTN Performance and Interview, Life N Style Artistic Tuesdays.

  

  If you were to only watch one of my interviews, ever, this is the one. Karibu

  rayawambui

  November 24, 2022

  Poetry, Video

  Interview and recorded live performance, Kenya, KTN

• And Back Again

  

  …the ever present threat that brought me is not over. I beg to excuse myself, to the bathroom, to check my phone.

  rayawambui

  November 19, 2022

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

  Bureaucracy, ChildrensRights, Culture, freedom of speach, GasLighting, GBV, Help, Kenya, Nairobi, poetry, SGBV, TheSecondRape, VictimShaming, WomensRights

• Nairobi Poetry Cafe, Alliance Francaise feature

  

  …some of my most intimate pieces.

  rayawambui

  November 17, 2022

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Video

  Alliance Francaise, Colonialism, History, Live Performance, Nairobi Poetry Cafe, Patriotism, poetry, Spoken Word, Spoken Word Poetry

• How To Be Loved

  

  Am I not a center of adorations. Am I not doted on, Wanted? Always.

  rayawambui

  November 12, 2022

  Poetry

  Confidence, introspection, Love, poetry, SelfLove, ShadowWork

• Poetry Africa 2014, Raya Wambui feature.

  

  Six months pregnant and on fire.

  rayawambui

  November 11, 2022

  Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Video

  Amazing Audience, Diverse Set, Live Performance, Long Poetry Set, Poetry Africa, Pregnant