25 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Poetry
Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon. For the next two weeks or so I will not be blogging everyday. I need that time away to concentrate on my WIP and to settle in our new home. 🙂
Time Away
as ideas bud
I coil in my shell
to open out
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (25/10/13)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
25 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Poetry, Uncategorized
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A Terza Rima Sonnet done for Sonya’s Challenge. Instructions on writing a terza rima sonnet:
I hope you like my offering 🙂
Promise Me
do promise me you will always be there even when the shadows gather their sheaves and this dying rustle an expunged air when the tides pick up their volcanic steam unleashing fury on this battered shell do promise me you will never leave me even when my breathless heart tolls a bell faint clanging notes of diluted sweetness whisper of a faraway living well let me sip of its ever cool freshness let me drink of the warmth that is your love oh, shield me from this threatening darkness as my lids droop and take their final bow promise me you will stay true to our vows Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (25/10/13)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
24 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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Done for Carpe Diem
Artemis
moon’s luminescence
plays havoc with his manhood
potent seduction
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (24/10/13)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Events, Ghanaian Literature Week
Ghanaian Literature Week is back this year! My dear friend, Kinna of Kinna Reads will be hosting the 3rd rendition having started it in 2010, ran it again in 2011.
This year’s reading event is scheduled for Monday, November 11th – Sunday, November 17th. Everyone is invited to participate. The guidelines for participation remain the same as those in 2011:
Kinna will host a number of giveaways for our local, African and international readers and participants. Note: if you are an author or publisher who would like to donate a book to this project, please email her at kinnareads(at)gmail(dot)com.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to guest post on her blog or would like to host an event (online or in Ghana) during the week.
A page with a list of suggested reading and other information related to the week will be put up on her blog Kinna Reads in the coming week.
I’ve already lined up a book or two for the event. Can’t wait!. I do hope you will join us have fun!!! 🙂
In 2011, I participated in the Ghanaian Literature Week as a guest on Kinna’s blog with a review of Mistress of the Game by Asabea Ashun. I was then not a blogger.
Today, I give credit to Kinna for introducing me to blogging and starting me off when she came to my office to help me create a blog. 🙂 Without her encouragement and confidence in me, and the invaluable support from dear Nana Awere Damoah, (another writer and blogger) I would not have been here today on blogosphere. 🙂
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
On Carpe Diem we are to complete the following by Matsuo Basho who for one reason or their other could not complete it :-):
complete haiku
missing a wife
the bamboo grass dives under
the thatched hut
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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Done for Haiku Heights
Grey
heaving stomachs
theater becomes theatrical
grey’s anatomy
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 21/10/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
19 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Fiction, Haibun
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Two prompt words on this week’s Ligo Haibun Challenge. Treasure and Despair. My choice below:
Treasure
I dug the whole night for the treasure. My hands were tattered and bleeding. My body ached in all the wrong places and still I dug on, plundering, the earth black and wet with my effort and tears. There was no sign of the treasure in sight. Suddenly I heard her laughter, crackling and manic. I didn’t need her here. No, not now when I was frantic myself.
“The treasure is within you, my lady, and until you find it, all you write will be chaff.”
Her sharp words stabbed my core and the pain almost killed me, waking me up. I had been dreaming of my grandmother again. But this time her words held a deeper meaning and suddenly, as the first sign of the morning streaked into my room, I finally saw the light. She had been right all along. I had it in me, the gift of the storyteller, her legacy. My treasure.
treasured words buried in wisdom my life-line
18 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Haiku My Heart, Poetry
Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon
Petals
shower of petals
heralds a season of love
Autumn poetry
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 18/10/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
17 Thursday Oct 2013
16 Wednesday Oct 2013
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
In response to Sonya’s Challenge I am trying my hands at a Triolet today. I don’t know whether what I have written makes sense, but it is a first try! 🙂
A Triolet has the following features:
There are a total of 8 lines with two different repeating lines:
Decadence
In anger night unfolds her sheath
just to cover our nakedness
lapping this gleaming decadence
In anger night unfolds her sheath
ashamed to see the evidence
which the stars sadly bear witness
In anger night unfolds her sheath
Just to cover our nakedness
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 16/10/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Reading Pleasure 