My wife'S pot has a big mouth

BIKO IRUTI 1992 (Laikipia)



MY WIFE'S POT HAS A BIG MOUTH
Ngimalasinoi taapa kang, My fathers I greet you
May the love of Akuj narokidiama warm your hearts
May the love of God who dwells on the ngimoru
The holy mountain
Breast feed us with mouthfuls of his peace.

My fathers, I understand that my wife Nang'oroto is here
I have not come to her, I have come to take all that belongs to me
I have come to take my bridewealth of thirty ngamezekin and fifty ngaatuk
In total I want my eighty sheep and cows, you can milk her instead.

O, my taapa kang, I am tired of her insults
They sting my ngitou - my right and left testicle like an arrow
Her words are sharp like apong
Are smelly like vomits of ebu loongori - an old spotted hyena
Whose skin is rough like a cloth regurgitated by a warthog.

Last elap before the coming of this moon
She had no regard for my penile
My fathers, It is unheard that a man's manhood can mourn -
It is sad that my ngamiryo spoke loudly like an ekajoojaat or like a flea in labour.

My fathers, I am not the problem
My manliness is tough and strong
It is not a stirring stick for cooking porridge as she says
It is not ngamakalei or a tobacco smoking pipe
It is not a stick for building kraal
It is not eketoi a ejembe  or a stick of a hoe.

My apa, my wife is the problem
My wife's pot has a big mouth
It swallows stiff porridge, yams, cassava and potato
It eats a lot
More than it fetches
O, my fathers
Give back all that's mine
My effort can't
Satiate my wife's cooking pot!

Words Translation in English : My Wife's Pot Has a Big Mouth
Apa – father
Eketoi a ejembe – a stick of a hoe
Ngamakalei – pipe
Ekajoojaat – flea
Ngamiryo – manhood
Elap – moon
Ebu loongori – a spotted hyena
Ngitou – testicle
Apong – a spiky
Taapa kang – my father
Ngamamezekin – a sheep
Ngaatuk – a cow
Ngimoru – a mountain
Ajuk narokidiama – God above/in heaven
Ngimalasinoi taapa kang – I greet you my fathers
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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axxbcx bdex xbefe ghxb iexjhk iAklxmxxl abkjdxgfxdbxeccm
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,867
Words 374
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 5, 4, 6, 9, 16

BIKO IRUTI

Biko Iruti is a poet in Kenya. He is also a playwright and short-story writer based in Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Biko was born in Nyahururu, Laikipia County. He attended both primary and secondary school in Nyahururu before being entrolled to join Moi University in Eldoret.Growing up, he loved reading storybooks, magazines, journals, and novellas. He attributes his love for reading from his father who always ensured there was enough reading materials from the shelves. Biko's love for reading created and nurtured a passion for writing. Biko Iruti is a student of English and Literature at Moi University a public University in Kenya. He is the current features editor of 'The 3rd Eye', a publishing press club at the university. He is the author of the 'The Love Realms,' a romantic drama that was published in Kenya the year 2016. He has written poems and plays which are not published but he hope to one day put them in print. He has compiled a poetry anthology titled 'Ravens Of Africa', which he wishes to publish in the near future. Biko's works have appeared big of a deal in online publications like Miombo publishing, Modern African poetry, Kenya poetry Lounge, has appeared in various anthologies such as Pace in Poetry, BNAP 'new' anthology 2020. Biko Iruti is an advocate for human rights. He has written poems which advocates for human liberation. He's believe is that, human development is nurtured when minds are let to think through issues freely. more…

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