WRITING KWANSABA POEMS, student prompt # 4

First daffodil in my front yard!

My friend Lenard Moore, one of this year's North Carolina Awards

winners in Literature, introduced me to the Kwansaba poetry form.  Go to this link on my laureate blog, My Laureate's Lasso, to read more about Lenard and the the http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/2009/05/kwansaba-poems-by-lenard-moores.html

The Kwansaba came into being as a praise song.

The Kwansaba is a poem consisting of seven lines. Each line has no more than seven words. Each word has no more than seven letters. Thus, the form, revolving around the number 7, adding up to 49 words, is based on the seven principles of the Kwanzaa celebration.

Here is a Kwansaba I just wrote, after looking up at the leafless trees outside my window,  waiting to turn green again.

March 18

Spring is almost here. I can smell

it in the wind. See my dog's 

nose twitch! He sniffs the valley air

and dreams the red fox we saw

last spring runs again along the ridge

where green gets ready to leaf out

and we get ready to sing praise!