Short Kwanza Poems

Pink Tulips bloom, sun
Kwanza Flowering Cherry 
Hammock swinging, sneeze...

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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 love's unity,
Let's live in oneness;
God having us be:-
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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:-



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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:-

Farming together,
We harvest abundant crops;
Well nourishing all:-
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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:-

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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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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....

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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:-

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:-
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Listen to poem:

(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).

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MERRY CHRISTMAS
           AND
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL MY FELLOW POETS
ALL OVER THE WORLD!!

FARSI - Christmas-e-shoma Mobarak Bashad
FRENCH - Joyeux Noel
GREEK - Kala Christouyenna
GERMAN - Froehliche Weihnachten
ITALIAN - Buone Feste Natalizie 
LATIN - Natale hilare et Annum Faustumi
NAVAJO - Merry Keshmish
BRAZILIAN - Boas Festes e Feliz Ano Novo
SPANISH - Feliz Navidad
URDU - Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
HINDI - Shub Naya Baras
           AND
HAPPY HANUKKAH
HAPPY KWANZA...

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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:-
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