IMANI
...IMANI: Kwanza Thoughts For Today
seeds of faith must grow,
fertile soil germinates faith;
Be that soil of faith:-
We must live our faith...
We must be our faith's heartbeat...
Let's blosso...
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
december
...(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)
december!
(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicke...
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Categories:
kwanza, birth, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form: Acrostic
NIA
...NIA
A Kwanza Thought For Today)
Be the seed you are,
Sown here in the soils of hope;
Germinating hope:-
Your roots anchoring,
Be divine guidance growing;
Fruiting ripe wisdom:-
Inspiri...
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Categories:
kwanza, black african american, community,
Form: Haiku
UJIMA
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UJIMA
(Kwanza Thought For Today)
Ebon lambs of God,
Grazing the fields of our lives;
Let’s shepherd them well:-
Precious sweet lambs,
May their fields be ever green;
We sowing them well:...
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
UJAMAA
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UJAMAA
(Kwanza Thought For Today)
Let’s not be in drought,
Collectively plowing growth—
Juicy fruits growing:-
Sowing together,
We collectively reap more—
Barns of life well stocked:-
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
KUJICHAGULIA
...KUJICHAGULIA
(Kwanza Thought For Today)
Ebony beauty,
Ebonic seeds of God's fruit;
Let's germinate life:-
In this life's garden,
Let us sow seeds of self-worth;
Reaping in oneness:-
The...
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
UMOJA
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UMOJA
(A Kwanza Triad)
Love's the greatest gift;
It's the harvest of Christ;
Nourishing oneness:-
Like fruits and their seeds,
Let us be in life's onement;
Ripening in oneness:-
In lo...
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Christmas Kwanza and Hannukah
...Christmas was always my big season of celebration
Because I taught school, and it was our semi-big break
Unless you count summers, which were terrific at eight weeks
I looked forward to the baking...
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Categories:
kwanza, holiday,
Form: Free verse
STEP HATUA
...Step hatua, move foward,from hire to there,
Think tambua,trees dont hang around with grasses despite they all start down here,
See tazamia, to envision yourself up there,
through listening,learni...
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Categories:
kwanza, africa, change, courage,
Form: Rhyme
He Cheated On Me
...Dafina catens
```He cheated```
He cheated and said im the liar,
Aty me ni elder wa brothel me ni malaya,
Akapack... madem ni wengi akaishia ulaya,
Sina ubaya bro ulinipata kwa choir,
He ch...
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Categories:
kwanza, allegory, depression,
Form: Rhyme
2020 Holidays
...My room is a mess - it's an archaeological record of boredom.
Christmas, Christmas, come on Christmas.
It's 4 days 'til Christmas. Why don't I go to my room and do NOTHING??
The clock ticking so...
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Categories:
kwanza, 11th grade, august, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Winter Is
...Winter is like a refrigerator gone haywire
Which arrives on the heels
of an Abominable Snowman
The display blinking as ice crystals
Showing off her freezing prowess
Scaring the timid into calli...
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Categories:
kwanza, winter,
Form: Free verse
Just Another Holiday
...Just another holiday coming round in the season
as the weather changes warm to cold.
A chill upon the body cooling the spirits
to tepid memories long passed.
Thanksgiving full of laughter
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Categories:
kwanza, christmas, holiday, peace,
Form: Verse
Santa Jesus Alive and Well
...Christmas Jesus alive and well
Santa takes a back door seat
Hanukkah included, swell.
Friends of all persuasions cannot be beat.
December comes but once a year.
Christmas Jesus alive and well....
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Categories:
kwanza, christian, christmas,
Form: Quatern
Warm Kwanza Christmas Hanukah Too
...Warm Kwanza, Christmas, and Hanukah too.
Three reasons to celebrate, faithful glue.
Families planning the best meals today.
Loving their traditions, reasons to pray.
No matter what belief you hav...
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Categories:
kwanza, chanukah, christmas, faith, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
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