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 blossom daily...
Faith is for living,
Let's plow rows of faith;
Fruitfully growing:-
N.B.: Amani na upendo;
Be a spiritual rock,
Rolling onward in your faith:-
P.S.: May my Kwanza clusterings,
Tease your AI ponderings;
NI awareness rooted:-
(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 flicker))).
(r(estless(me))).
(a pause; a cigarette flicked into an unseen ashtray).
(born)this(month)me,
(a small(fear))a big(joy)a whispered(prayer),
(this)light(a(breath))).
(a final, almost whispered keystroke),
(it is perfect).
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:-
Inspiring reapers,
Guide them in the harvesting;
Saving neighbors:-
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:-
Blessed be our children,
We, their guardian shepherds;
Divine wisdom ours:-
Shepherds of our lambs,
With rods and staff of God’s love,
May they never want:-
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:-
Farming together,
We harvest abundant crops;
Well nourishing all:-
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 Harvest is great;
Likewise, let we reapers be;
Great in our onement:-
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 love's unity,
Let's live in oneness;
God having us be:-
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 – candies, cookies, fudges, pies, cakes.
The comradery – family, friends, neighbors, even co-workers.
Everyone seems to be in a holiday mood mid December.
Hannukah, Kwanza and Christmas people friendlier than usual.
Exchanging gifts, giving out glittery cards, being a notch nicer.
I think the entire month of December should be celebrated for this reason.
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,learning collecting all knowledge information and technology...Be smart as your phone.
All i wish and play for is for the rain,
i can simply dance with the mad,
and built my self Noah's ark, if it turn to flood,
claw walk run,run run run until you catch a ginger bread man,
keep on running, Mchaka Mchaka.
Hatua kwa hatua.
Friends are the one break, are the one built,
Friends are the one you should check keep straight get royalty,
Hatua ya kwanza nikuthubutu, yapili kutenda,
hatua mwisho ni futi sita,nyayo nani atazienzi atazifuata nakuzilinda.
STEP CHUKUA HATUA.
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 calling in sick
Terrified of black ice or their insurance rates rising
When they slide into a semi on their way to work.
Winter is softened a bit by Kwanza, Hanukah and Christmas
But only a tiny bit, for we are still leery
of getting frostbitten toes
if we get locked out
and we are scared to death there might not be a Santa Claus
or that we were bad enough to get only coal this year.
Winter makes me smile
as her ice cubes drop with loud angry cracking sounds
as we scrape off our windshields.
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.
Decorations all over my dear.
Bethlehem story easy to tell.
Kwanza is prevalent, an easy sell.
Faithful followers breaking bread.
Christmas Jesus alive and well.
Some so rigid; ideas are dead.
Let us admire each other’s faith.
Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, do tell.
To not honor each is to skaith.
Christmas Jesus alive and well.
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 have, know this my friend.
We will always be pals to a most fantastic end.
Warm Kwanza, Christmas and Hanukah too.
Enjoy your vacation, for it is what we all do.
A name reflective of its traditional kingship
is its identity, showcasing a cultural strength and heritage.
A huge trader with an Asian giant
is this land upholding the Kwanza like the Indian respect to its Rupee.
Indifference is shown to the culture of tipping;
substances like cigarettes can stand as replacement to cash.
The semba is a mother influence to many others like the samba of Brazil
and it has a zero tolerance approach
towards its public structures and security zones.
It is an epitome of the continent’s blessing in wealth and resources
this land shakes hands with the black diamonds from beneath
but once bowed its head to the rule of the Portuguese.
Now standing as free as a large open space,
yet still humiliated by the shackles of the African curse.
(Homage to the Kwanza River
" Water mother " of Angola)
Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic Kwanza!
In the central highlands
We see thee rise in Mumbué
And 960 kilometers of undoubted majesty
To the north and west
Since the municipality of Chitembo, in Bié
Stretch out on the big curve design
Before the hug, so sweet, so strong
You give to the salt of the Atlantic
Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic kwanza!
With an enviable basin
For two hundred and fifty
Kilometers, you are navigable
From the mouth to the Dondo
Where the dams of Cambambe and Capanda
Render yourself patriotic reverence
By the megawatts of power
Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic Kwanza!
As well as to the national currency unit
In the two provinces, thy name this also:
At its northern margin, Kwanza Norte
And Kwanza Sul, on the opposite bank, equally
They pay more than deserved tribute
I WISH YOU ALL
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
FELIZ NAVIDAD
BOAS FESTAS
MERI KIRIHIMETE
KALA CHRISTOUYENNA
JOYEUX NOEL
CHRISTMAS-E-SHOMA MUBARAK BASHAD
AND
A VERY HAPPY HANUKKAH
A VERY HAPPY KWANZA
AND,
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL,
NAYA SAAL MUBARAK HO,
SHUB NAYA BARAS!!
WITH LOVE AND PEACE!
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