Dave Wooley is our host today at http://www.ethicalela.com for the 16th day of #VerseLove, inspiring us to write seven- line poems called Kwansabas. You can read his full prompt here, along with the poems and comments of others.
Dave describes this process:
The Kwansaba is an African-American poetic form that was created by Eugene Redmond in 1995. It is inspired by the seven days of Kwanzaa and it is a praise poem.
The rules of the form are:
-it is a seven line poem,
-each line is seven words in length,
-each word is seven letters or less,
-and the poem should be a praise poem
He’s Back
today I praise this dim quiet spot
this sweet spot, still, fan breeze blowing
air on my face: my current view
is the ceiling and flutter eyelid blinks
because Vertigo demands all of my being
ghost thief of time, work, family dinners,
but mark my words: still, I’ll rise
Common Threads 