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Rated: E · Poetry · Religious · #769485

Celebrating the Hindu holiday of Diwali with a Naga Uta poem.

Rice flour footprints
shimmer golden all the night
in glowing paths of
candle columns unsleeping;

dyas welcome Lakshmi,
herald of this newest year
full-lit with knowledge…
vanquishing dark ignorance;
celebrating our
collective humanity.

Life is mirth, and love,
and blessed, we gather as one…
all enmities forgotten.
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