Shilla Mutamba
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It’s a new day!
I will stop making excuses
for all my pain,
I will ignore my losses
and count my gains.
I will not postpone
my joy or wait
for SOME day-
Today is a new day,
I choose to make it
the very best day.
Written by Shilla Mutamba
I will stop making excuses
for all my pain,
I will ignore my losses
and count my gains.
I will not postpone
my joy or wait
for SOME day-
Today is a new day,
I choose to make it
the very best day.
Written by Shilla Mutamba
No sadness here
There’s no sadness here
And no need to fear.
The few lines here
Will make you cheer.
We don’t do grumpy
Please don’t get jumpy!
Buckle your seat-belt,
Welcome to Laughter-land.
Are you feeling moody?
Well-we’ve got some goodies.
These few lines here
Are for you, dear.
We’ve got no foul temper,
We don’t read the paper.
Be our newest recruit
Give sadness the boot!
Written by Shilla Mutamba
There’s no sadness here
And no need to fear.
The few lines here
Will make you cheer.
We don’t do grumpy
Please don’t get jumpy!
Buckle your seat-belt,
Welcome to Laughter-land.
Are you feeling moody?
Well-we’ve got some goodies.
These few lines here
Are for you, dear.
We’ve got no foul temper,
We don’t read the paper.
Be our newest recruit
Give sadness the boot!
Written by Shilla Mutamba
I’m breaking free
This comfort zone of mediocrity
has become a trap and a snare-
I’m escaping; I’m breaking free.
I’m breaking free
from my stinking,
low-level thinking.
I’m tearing down
self-imposed barriers
and invisible borders.
I’m letting go
of small-mindedness
and enlarging my vision.
I’m ridding myself
of mediocrity, negativity
and passivity.
I’m breaking free
from every shackle,
from every chain-
I am free indeed!
Written by Shilla Mutamba
This comfort zone of mediocrity
has become a trap and a snare-
I’m escaping; I’m breaking free.
I’m breaking free
from my stinking,
low-level thinking.
I’m tearing down
self-imposed barriers
and invisible borders.
I’m letting go
of small-mindedness
and enlarging my vision.
I’m ridding myself
of mediocrity, negativity
and passivity.
I’m breaking free
from every shackle,
from every chain-
I am free indeed!
Written by Shilla Mutamba
Shilla Mutamba was born in Zimbabwe where she studied Medical Laboratory Sciences at the University of
Zimbabwe. She then relocated to the Isle of Wight, UK to take up a post as a Biomedical Scientist. She has since
obtained an MSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Portsmouth (2002) and now works as a Specialist
Biomedical Scientist. She currently lives in Coalville (UK) with her husband and their two girls. Her first publication
was a letter that she wrote to the Editor of the Zimbabwe Herald when she was 12 years old. Her short stories and
poems (written under her maiden name Shilla Ndlovu) have also appeared in her former High School newspapers and
magazines as well as other publications in Zimbabwe. Her noteworthy achievements include publication of poems in
the Zimbabwe Women Writers' Anthology (1994), Tsotso Magazine (1993). She is currently working on a collection
of poems and hopes to get her first poetry book published in the near future. This is her third appearance in Munyori
Poetry Journal.
Zimbabwe. She then relocated to the Isle of Wight, UK to take up a post as a Biomedical Scientist. She has since
obtained an MSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Portsmouth (2002) and now works as a Specialist
Biomedical Scientist. She currently lives in Coalville (UK) with her husband and their two girls. Her first publication
was a letter that she wrote to the Editor of the Zimbabwe Herald when she was 12 years old. Her short stories and
poems (written under her maiden name Shilla Ndlovu) have also appeared in her former High School newspapers and
magazines as well as other publications in Zimbabwe. Her noteworthy achievements include publication of poems in
the Zimbabwe Women Writers' Anthology (1994), Tsotso Magazine (1993). She is currently working on a collection
of poems and hopes to get her first poetry book published in the near future. This is her third appearance in Munyori
Poetry Journal.
