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Africa, Beggar, Ghana, Haiku, Nana Fredua Agyeman, Nature, Roadside Beggar
Done for Carpe Diem. I couldn’t resist again and here I am. 🙂 This time my fellow Ghanaian friend and prolific Haiku poet and reviewer, Nana Fredua Agyeman has been featured on Carpe Diem. Nana’s haiku below is the source of inspiration today.
looking at the sun
for a silver coin –
roadside beggar
My attempt in the same mood and spirit!
fading sun
shadows the beggar
empty bowl
2
roadside beggar
empty calabash
reflecting the fading sun
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (18/11/14)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
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It’s nice to visit you again…love your series…painting a vivid picture.
Thank you Oliana. Great seeing you again. 🙂
80% of the time I am at Carpe Diem…he keeps us so busy:)
🙂 Well, doesn’t he? But we won’t have it any other way. 🙂
So true!! what a great mentor!
Your writing is always so evocative. The words come alive. Nice job!
Thank you Susan. 🙂
Hello stranger. Haven’t read from you in a while. I think this is very well written.
Kiru, thanks so much for checking in. 🙂 Still busy with the WIP.
Very evocative, Celestine. I like the spareness of the first version. Tx
Tish, thanks so much. Good to see you here my friend 🙂
I enjoyed your series of poems. They are very reflective of the prompt. Nicely done.
Thank you Alice. 🙂
🙂
One hopes that the shadows dogging the beggar are benevolent!
Let’s hope so! 🙂
I especially like the line “shadows the beggar” – it might suggest that the beggar is being shadowed or that the beggars are themselves shadows.
Both ideas work well, Blake. Thanks so much for commenting. 🙂
Wonderful Celestine, now please don’t disappear sweet sis!
Oh Gilly, I wish I wouldn’t. But only for a while. 🙂
Beautiful haiku, all of them, Celestine. Each word sings like music! 🙂
Ow thanks so much Penny. So good to see you here. 🙂
My pleasure to stop by for a short visit, Celestine, I hope all is well with you and your family. I know you are staying very busy! Keep taking care of youl, much love ~ Penny 🙂
Oh, these are wonderful, Celestine!
Especially like the feel of the first one — very nice!
Thanks a million, Jean. 🙂
Wooow, this is so delightful to read. I hope we can have some collaboration so that I could introduce my students to this wonderful genre that i lack knowledge of but enjoyyy. Cheers!!!!
Thank you Kwasi. Always a pleasure. I’m ever ready to help you in any way I can. Haiku is not well known among the students in Ghana. In actual fact I also didn’t know about this genre till I started blogging two years ago. 🙂
Lovely as always! Welcome back. 🙂
Thank you so much, Eva. 🙂
Very effective poetry, suggesting to me that the beggar as a symbol of all the poor, is in the shadows, hidden.
Thank you Wabi. 🙂 That’s another wonderful interpretation. 🙂
The desperation comes through. The talent is always shining.
Kimmy, thanks. How are you my dear sis?
Recovering 🙂
We thanks God. 🙂
perfectly captured! Glad to see you back after such a long time, i have been so stuck up with my books since october that i have lost track of time and acts! did try to visit your blog from zyoshiko’s blog but it only took me to your gravatar 😦
Trisha, it’s good to be back even if its only temporary. 🙂
Pathetic situation for the poor beggar. Fab writing, Celestine.
Great to read your cute piece again.
Stella, thanks, as always 🙂
I love how you play with light and shade, you do that so well but you do that with all your words so I shouldn’t be surprised.
Ow Ste J, you make my day all the time with your lovely compliments. Thanks my friend. 🙂
Lovely take on the prompt! 🙂 I loved the first one a lot
Apurva, thanks. 🙂
A bad day for the beggar 😦
Yes indeed! 🙂
Very clever! I like!
Thank you, Marie. 🙂
These are powerful, especially the first one you wrote.
Thank you so much. 🙂