Aswani Sammy Luyove was born and raised in the rocky Tirikiland hills of Hamisi, Vihiga county; a stone throw away from the magnicent wonder tor of Kakamega, the Crying Stone of western Kenya, in 1983. Aswani attended his early learning years at Jimarani Primary School, and later O level education at Givole Secondary School. He has his acquired tertiary education from different colleges and Kenyatta Unversity, making him multi-professional. He is a business administrator, educationist and a journalist, driven by sharp political instincts and a great passion for poetry.
He is currently the Managing Director of Greatwell Training College in Nairobi, Kenya.
Those sunken cheeks are not her own
My darling was a thing,
In fact those sunken cheeks
That you now call wrinkles
...
I listened...and heard
The yelling of the poor child;
Bones bulging from the head,
And I wonder,
...
I remember some time back,
When I was the only child on your back
Food was plenty, I ate as I could
And me, I was all you valued,
...
Dear countrymen and women
The state is ill-breeding.
I am afraid the herd is astray
That the cow that calved yesterday
...
I'm staring at you
Because you look new
Your beauty is stunning
Like a sea squid,
...