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Safana 6m
Shekaran jiyan an tattauna
Bayan takardun an kokkona
Duk da majalisar ta zauna
A karshe kowa ya dangana

An kotun farko anyi magana
Ai lallai duka sun tattauna
Tare da lauyoyi sun zauna
An shaida Gawuna ag gwamna

Kuri'un bogi an gano ko ina
Duka hujjojin manya da kana
An gabatar da su da ma'ana
Ga alkalan daukaka kara a bana

Hukunci a bayyane an bayyana
A gaban manya da kanana
Hukuncin daukaka karar a bana
Ya tabbar da Gawuna ne gwamna

Jojin, me sunan kubewa ta miya
Ya ja kaya sai ya dauki aniya
Don bawa karya wata kariya
Don tabbatar da hukuncin karya

Kotu ta zama tamkar fiya-fiya
Alkali ya koma bara da magiya
Domin samin tsotsar kashin miya
Sai ya siyar da iko nasa don dukiya

Ashe ba girin-girin ba tayi mai
Tun da ta leko ta koma ba komai
Kowa sai ya dau dangana kadai
Tabbas wata rana zasu lashe amai
Safana 25m
A wanga kasa ta ke nan
Ba a batun wane sai wancan
Komai iyawar ka baka nan
Tun da ba ka cikin yayan nan

Wanga batu lallai zan farawa
Ba kari ciki balle in yi ragawa
Komai nisan jifa kasa zai fadawa
To ko wane ne jifan zai fadawa

Wani jifan tsami wani ko sai zaki
Kafin a jefa jifan sai an sha yaki
Wani yakin tabbas sai an sa kaki
Na gaba-gaba zai nasara shine sarki

A arewa akwai wani birni shine kebbi
In zaka garin zuru lallai sai ka bi
Birni mai tarihi da yawa an bibbi
Malamai da fatake sun fashewar jalabi
Busy streets where I live
Cafés full
People out and about
Signs of life returning
The quiet leaving
For the sounds of the city
Tourists returning
Daily life returning
Bit by bit
All over the world
In cities and towns
Humanity is restarting
A new normal has arrived
After a long time away
Busy streets
The vibrant colors
move together like a dance.
They are in rhythm moving
and flowing together.
Creating artful delight.
I pour and blend
choosing colors so alive.
It's so satisfying seeing the colors create such beauty
some abstract some wild
let the paints dance on canvas
Let them become the colors
they design &
are meant to be.
Vibrant and Colorful.
© Jennifer Lynn DeLong
4/27/24
Dear, You Know Who You are.

Bless me Father for I have
Slnned.

It has been twenty four
months since last i

looked
in the mirror.

Forbid me not the long
vowels of my
Poems, the

caesura of love in
the Winter in Wisconsin.

Summer's in the
Lake.  There's fire in
my old dreams

And you.


Caroline Shank
4.26.2024
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