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Welcome to Muriuki’s world. I share my writing: poems, journals, reflections, and all manner of thoughts that reside in my mind here. Indulge.

  • A Large Potato

    A Large Potato

    Múturú was a precious commodity at Karatina D.E.B Primary School. If you got it, you were either lucky, or the cook’s favourite. The cook, Maina, was a slender man who always wore gumboots. Múturú was a large potato, preferably uncut, served…

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  • One More Time

    Dear Mum, I want to relive that moment One more time That time I waited…

  • Will You Join In?

    I confess I get high on my own supply Every so often I go back…

  • A Certain Amount of Madness

    I am embracing my insanity Let me live wild Drop any inhibitions That suppress my…

  • A Large Potato

    Múturú was a precious commodity at Karatina D.E.B Primary School. If you got it, you…

  • Wahome

    I always found my grandfather seated by the cow shed early in the morning, contemplating…

  • A Girl in a Red Dress

    I had my first crush in Form 2. It happened in a flash, right in…

  • One More Time

  • Grieving my Mum Over 20 Years Later

  • Dear Mum, I Turned 30