Voices Of May

By Mar'Kata Rhaimes

Often times, you might find yourself secretly tempted to wonder if some hearts are meant to only stop at crushing, and thereafter remain broken, without ever really finding their rightful place within the unbounded domain of this long-craved thing called 'Love'. 
And then while you're still trapped in that protracting muse, "Voices Of May" somehow comes into the scene, and portrays such a strong, emotive blend of poetry that transcends through the sentiments of love, unlove, regret and hope (Although not necessarily in that order)_ just in time to sort of affirm those very surreptitious convictions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mar'Kata Rhaimes
• Release date: May 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393323525

Mar'Kata Rhaimes

MAR'KATA RHAIMES is a poet, and a 2-time Spoken Word Act nominee in the Vine Entertainment Awards. He is the author of Voices of May, a poetry anthology, and has in the recent past lent a piece of his heart and mind to several authors’ literary works such as God is Humorous, Imitators Of God, Singleness is Not Loneliness, among others. At the time of writing this book, he serves as the chief editor at christianwalkuganda.blogspot.com, a Christian life blog, and sanacribs.com, an interior design website. When bored by books and blogs, he’ll be squinting at his laptop either hunting for software bugs or watching YouTube videos.

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First Published in Kampala - Uganda in 2019

Copyright © 2019 by Mar'Kata Rhaimes

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in

any form or by any means: electronic, mechanical,

photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without express

written permission of the author.

Also, none of the poems in this manuscript may be

recited and/or performed anywhere without explicit

proof of the author's consent.

All the names portrayed in chapter two of this book

are for real persons, and the events depicted therein

are also real. Any other resemblance to actual

persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely

coincidental.

A handful of poems in this manuscript are explicit

revisions of some of those that were written by the

same author and featured in The River Banks poetryand-prose anthology, published under the PENit

Writers' Initiative in the year 2016.

Cover and Interior Layout and Design by:

Mar'Kata Rhaimes.

Cover Illustration Image Adopted From:

http://ube.azyya.com/uploads2/

Cover Design Consultant:

Mohammed Moshen  (Kreativ Adikt)

Affirmation

Looking for quiet in the disquiet emotions of Life,

Mar'Kata Rhaimes embroiders unique poetic skill in

the weave of his poetry. He satiates our appetites

with a blend of new poetry.

~Ronald K. Ssekajja (Author of Echoes of Tired Men

and other books)

Voices Of May is one very captivating pool of some

of the rarest form of poetry I've personally ever read.

Mar'Kata Rhaimes gives it that feel and touch of what

exactly is going on behind the silent throb of a young,

longing heart. I'd find myself reading each poem over

and over and over again without realizing I'm doing

just that! This book will basically relate to, teach,

encourage, and inspire its dedicated reader. Just enjoy

it!

~Joanita Claire Naggita (Student, Poet)

About this piece of work, I have no right words to

express the way I have been blessed by it; the

romantic part of it is very descriptive of a young man

who longs for nothing but a love story. I would say

this is an excellent writing_ a well crafted work of Art

that is a world-need. This indeed is that kind of

literary blessing that everyone needs to get their eyes

feasting onto. I've been blessed, keep up the good

writing.

~Lukyamuzi Nagwano (Poet)

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What you've put together here is such a huge

accomplishment and I hope you're feeling super

proud!

~Deepa Shekar (Poetry lover, Chief Operating Officer

@ SafeBoda)

To my lovely future wife,

with loads of love.

And many more sweet hopes

for our future twosome life.

Acknowledgements:

Indeed no book is one man's effort alone; so, for

this my maiden release, I certainly have very

many people to thank:

My beloved mother, Marion R. N. Mutyaba: I

cannot thank you well enough for being the

woman who forsook all her dreams so that I could

dream. Thank you for continuously believing in

my hard-to-understand aspirations.

My big brother, Michael B. Kinene (aka

GagamaGoo): You're the one who helped me to

figure out that poetry is where my 'flight-wings'

had been tucked. Also, I continue to envy the

zealousness you have for your craft, let alone your

mind-blowing generosity!

My 2 young brothers,