SHAIRI YA KWANZA YAITWA TITI LA MAMA

Titi la mama litamu,hata likiwa la mbwa,

Kiswahili naazimu,sifayo iliyofumbwa,
Kwa wasiokufahamu,niimbe ilivyo kubwa,
Toka kama mlizamu, funika palipozibwa,
Titile mama litamu ,Jingine halishi hamu.



Lugha yangu ya utoto,hata sasa nimekua,
Tangu ulimi  mzito,sasa kusema najua,
Ni sawa na manukato,moyoni mwangu na pua,
Pori bahari na mto,napita nikitumia,
Titile mama litamu,jingine halishi hamu.

TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST POEM

One's mother's  breast is the sweetest
Canine it may be,
And thou,Swahili,my mother- tonque,
art still the dearest to me.
My song springs forth from a welling
heart, I offer thee my plea
That who have not known thee,
may join in hormage to thee.
One's  mother's breast is the sweetest,
no other so satisfies.



The speech of my childhood ,now I am 
fully grown
I realize thy beauty and have made it
 all on my own
And though refreshest my spirit like the 
scent of the roses blown
Through desert and o'er ocean may I
thy praises known.
One's mother's breast is the sweetest,
no other so satisfies.