Best Bantu Poems
My mother's footsteps,
A howling wind.
March 29, 2023.
Categories:
bantu, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
a butterfly alights upon my hand
an ethereal insight completes my verse
BANTU an imagist couplet Each line a compete idea,the 2nd however constrasts with a complementary description or explanation or metaphor thereof
Categories:
bantu, inspiration, nature, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
Wealth brings many friends , but a poor man 's friend deserts him.
Proverb 19:4
Who cares for you?
When we separate with good people
We feel to cry,
Remembering
The good times
With them.
When we separate with bad people,
We feel much peace ,
Happy... so happy,
Trying to forget
The bad times with them.
Who cares for you?
How does joy make
Us feel when we are
Surrounding by the people
Who love us and see
Our importance
To them?
It is always good to have
Two or three
People who real care for you
Than having thousands
hypocrites who can leave you
In hard times.
Who cares for you?
You will always notice
People who real care
For you when your house
Turns very dark,
Night becomes
Long than a day,
Dams , rivers ,
Lakes, and oceans dry,
Rains stop for some months.
Strong wind blowing days and nights.
Burning sun over your heards.
Different diseases rise monthly
And you don't have some money.
Wife and kids are looking at
You for daily breakfast,
Dinner,
Supper
And different bills.
Good people will share their supports
But some hypocrites
Will leave you,
Blackmailing
And mocking on you
here and there.
Laughing
At you every time,
As you turned to be
A dark humour poem
Wrote by circumstance
And problem
But In the rainy season,
They will return
Without being called.
Apologising today and
Tomorrow
Trying to laugh with you
From your window
Pushing you
To do thing for them,
One by one telling his" her" problem
To you without asking them.
Who cares for you?
I really care for you
Dear brothers
And sisters
Reason why
I took my valuable
Time to write
This adorable
Piece of poetry
So that you may
Really identify
The person who cares
For you on this earth.
I love you with
My full heart.
The poet
Who smile here
And there
Because
My love
And
Your love
Readers
will be
Victorious
April 26/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, care, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Origin of the name Swahili
Or " Kiswahili" ,
One person said , " Iswa ile"
Another person said," Iswa iyi "
Swahili is one of the Bantu
Languages
Like isiZulu , Kifuliru,
Kinyindu, Kikuyu
Xhosa, Chewa, Kivira ,
Kinyarwanda Lingala ,
Tchiluba, Kimakuwa,
Kibemba, Kimasanza
Isivenda, Luganda, Kiluya
Kirundi, Kishi, Kibwari
Kinyamwezi, Isiswathi
Isindebele, Kibembe
Sotho, Kikongo,
Kimongo, Chiyawo
...... so on.
Swahili has little influence
Of Arabic due to Islam in Africa ...
Which does not stand
for its origin
As some people spoke
here
and there
To underestimate
Swahili in the World.
Arabic
And
Swahili have
Different strictrures
And
Grammar
Which prove their big difference
No matter few arabic vocabularies
Are in Swahili,
Same as
In Urdu,
Hindi ,
Persian,
And
So on.
I have never heard
Some people who quoted
About Persian to be originated
From Arabic because of few
Arabic vocabularies
Which are in Persian.
Swahili is Bantu language,
With strictures and grammar
As the above Bantu languages.
June 10th 2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Note:
Iswa: it is a flying insect
which majority
bantu people eat.
"Iyi , ili, " means This...
"Ile, hile" means That...
Iswa hile"ile" means that flying insect,
Iswa hiyi " iyi" means this flying insect.
That is where the name Swahili found its origin.
Swahili people are called
" Baswahili or Waswahili "
Which can stand for Swahili speakers
also.
Authentic Swahili is of DRCongo ,
because it has 1% influence of Arabic as
Muslims don't reach 2 % of the populations.
Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, africa, arabic,
Form:
Other
A row of birds on the power line
Workers queue for rush hour buses
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Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
Placed 1st
© 26th March 2023
Categories:
bantu, metaphor,
Form:
Verse
inner city vacant lot
a diamond in the rough
3/23/2023
Categories:
bantu, metaphor,
Form:
Other
From dawn to dusk, a changing sky,
A gecko finds another hue
3-22-2023
Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
Categories:
bantu, change, color,
Form:
Verse
Murmuration of starlings
Drone swarm light show
30 Mar 2023
Written Bantus Poetry
Contest Sponsor: Suzanne Dalaney
Categories:
bantu, sky,
Form:
Free verse
when they reached Cameroun, from the heart of Africa's West
they had no priests; they had no religion; they knew IMMENSITY
they had, too, the fairest of metaphors (no macho patriarchy):
recalling the POTTER who breathed into the first molded humanity
link Woman-Potter-Creators from Asu to Babessi to Zambia's Bafia
when Bantu ("human beings") left Benue-Congo four millennia ago
they had no priests - maybe the Hindus did, the Egyptians too -
the human beings knew they needed VASTNESS, plus intimacy ...
with hands and clay, a certain type of natural mothering
that priests, dominant masculine leaders, will never know
mother tongues make sounds (priests & profs label these "thinking")
in GENESIS Immensity said, "Light be!" without thinking, minus ego:
when we think, we make priests, stories, selfies: double-edged tool
ATTEND! the mothers know attention (when to feed), Asu gave us MUMBI -
ATTEND! or you will have priests! You will desire mediators & tabernacles
gather & sing; gather & sing as the BANTU, as "umb" or "bumb." Sing!
The Great Vastness will come. Especially if you sing together
The Bantu choirs through Africa knew Immensity and Intimacy
without the tyranny of male priests (or female ones talking specters) -
The Great Vastness will never be encountered by thought or priests.
Categories:
bantu, africa, culture, history, humanity,
Form:
Didactic
A nun skydiving in a thunderstorm
Frogs tapdancing on lily pads
written 25th March for Suzanne's Bantu contest
Categories:
bantu, games,
Form:
Bantu
Enveloped in a veil embellishing the belly dance~
Painted lady butterfly flutters with windswept buoyance
Categories:
bantu, imagery,
Form:
Other
thunder roars from the restless sky
homeless man with intense hunger pangs
03/25/2023
Categories:
bantu, metaphor,
Form:
Other
Spider Plants
Twirling, striped summer dresses.
Categories:
bantu, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Imagism
Neighbor's gossip carried like stones in the wind.
Glass houses shatter.
3/22/23
Contest: Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
Categories:
bantu, betrayal, metaphor,
Form:
Imagism
The farmer was a famous and creative actor
- fruitful function in the theatre
28.03.2023
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Categories:
bantu, inspiration, work,
Form:
Other