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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Heeding Haiku With HA: Mythology

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Anthony, Cleopatra, Egyptian Mythology

Done for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with HA. This week we are having Egyptian Mythology as the theme of the prompt.

 

Anthony and Cleopatra

hot death tolls its bell

staking her despondent heart

craving for his breath

as kiss of asps entrance her

to join him in bliss

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30/04/14)
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

 

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Carpe Diem: Ghost

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Ghost, love

Done for Carpe Diem.

Ghost

phantoms of her smile

haunting shredded memory

the dredges of love

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(30/04/14)
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Haiku Horizons: Sound

28 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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celestial, Choir, Music, Sound

Done for Haiku Horizons

Sound

celestial choir

echoing soft chimes

nourished soul

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(28/04/14)

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Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #5: Living Spring

28 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Poetry

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Elfjie, Shadorma, Threshold

Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt

We are to write the Shadorma or experiment using the Shardoma and the Elfje. (11 syllable or 11 words in 5 lines: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 1). My experiment: Hope it makes sense! 🙂

threshold © g.s.koch

threshold © g.s.koch

Living Spring

(3-5-3-3-7-5)

dangle me

across the threshold

of your heart

the dampness

fizzling the glowing wicker

of what I hold dear

(1-2-3-4-1)

push

me into

this yawning darkness

spiced with herbs from

 Hades

(3-5-3-3-7-5)

tantalise

my dying taste buds

yearning for

that last kiss

then, probably I shall gasp

for that living spring

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(28/04/14)
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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Haiku My Heart: Blossom

25 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Poetry

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bloom, blossoms, Nature

Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon and also for Carpe Diem Haiku Shuukan prompt, Blossom.

Blossom

inhaling these scents

valley alive with colours

blossoms for the gods

2

wild tresses

blooming on a tree

I inhale

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(25/04/14)

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Challenge Wednesday: Life

24 Thursday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Poetry

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Death, judgement, Life, Nature, stars

Challenge Wednesday by Jeremy of The Boi Poet is back after a short break.This week’s lines of poetry are below and we are to link back to Jeremy:

  • the wise stars bedding over me – Young by Anne Sexton
  • Haunt me with deities I never saw – There May Be chaos Still Around The World by George Santayana
  • One day won’t we all have to be brave? – Greenwich by Kirsten Dierking

dec weds

Life

these stars flicker their luminescence

purging souls of their wantonness

we bleed from the scorching touch

cleansing ritual of old

these mad deities

haunting our dreams

we kowtow

 them as

lord

of

the skies

all-seeing

in their splendor

garnishing the moon

but shadows gather sheaves

our work is up for tally

and soon, won’t we have to be brave

when night portents the dimming of stars

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(24/2/14)
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

 

 

 

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Carpe Diem: Photographing

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Hard disc, photography

Done for Carpe Diem. A difficult prompt!

Hard Disk

your image

splashed in spring colours

on hard disk

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(23/04/14)
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Heeding Haiku With HA: Till Death

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Romance

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Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Till death

Done for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with HA. Today we are to write a Tanka with the picture below as inspiration

Woodcut illustration (1919) of the young lovers from Gottfried Keller's original story, which became Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet

Woodcut illustration (1919) of the young lovers from Gottfried Keller’s original story, which became Delius’s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.

Till Death

lying by meadows

awaiting the morning dew

you and I are one

even as the sun sheaths skies

and Lord Capulet decrees

 

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(23/04/14)
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
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Carpe Diem: Midday Nap

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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book, Midday nap, nude, reading

Done for Carpe Diem.

Midday Nap

midday heat

 a nap with my book

in the nude

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(22/04/14)

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Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #4: Moon

21 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Poetry, Romance

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Full moon, romance, Shadorma, witchcraft

Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt.

A full moon is often interpreted in the romantic sense, other times with something involving magic,  sometimes with evil or maybe just the wrong time to cut one’s hair or plant certain plants. Keeping in mind all the variations associated with the full moon here is my offering:

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Moon

you and I

on a moonlit night

the leaves sigh

your witchcraft

playing havoc with my will

impotent, I yield

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(21/04/14)
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