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First crimson streak from Apollo’s paint brush
Rapidly covered the eastern sky in strokes
Broken strokes of red, pink, purple, blue
Adorned the sky, ebony some seconds ago
Then his eyes zeroed on earth below
He tickled and woke up the birds
Then painted lakes, hills and rivers crimson
The Kwansaba is a non-rhyming form that consists of seven lines of seven words per line and each word cannot include more than seven letters unless it’s a proper noun. It’s based on Kwanzaa, the African American holiday that celebrates seven principles
sharmishtha basu
