Walaloo Mana Barumsaa Koo Extra Quality -

| Element | Description | Example from Oromo Walaloo | |---------|-------------|----------------------------| | | Natural flow mimicking speech or walking | Mana barumsaa koo, keessatti bareedina / Akka bokkaa bara baraa, sammuu koo dheegdi | | Madaallii (Metaphor) | School as river, light, or womb | Ati galma beekumsaa, ati hadha seeraa | | Hawaasummaa (Collective voice) | “We” not just “I” | Nutti beekumsa kennite, nuuf taate ibsaa | | Duraa fi Duuba (Past & future) | Honoring elders while addressing youth | Abbootiin keenya dhugaa hin barreessine, ati barreessite | | Carooma (Emotional tension) | Joy mixed with pain of leaving | Yeroo si utubutti, onneen koo ni boolla |

My school, hall of light – in your beauty, knowledge springs. In your beauty, life becomes learning, like dawn lighting the mind. Your rooms are not empty – word, number, law, love, struggle live there. As long as you exist, speech does not die; inside our hearts, your poetry flies. Extra quality – not sought – like the pure rain of Chaliya, a natural cleansing. Not to sing or chant, but to purify the mind. My school, you are the poem of life. walaloo mana barumsaa koo extra quality