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Daily Archives: June 12, 2015

Haiku My Heart: Frozen Waltz

12 Friday Jun 2015

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

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Eternity, Mabson Southard, Music, Nature, petals, Spring, tango, Waltz, waters

Done for Carpe Diem. And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. I’m adding my two lines of seven syllables each to complete the hokku below into a tan renga.

From deep in the spring

clear reflections rise to meet

falling plum petals

Mabson Southard

Mine

in graceful midair tangle

and a waltz frozen in time

Tan Renga

From deep in the spring

clear reflections rise to meet

falling plum petals

in graceful midair tangle

and a waltz frozen in time.

 
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
12/06/15
 
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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APED – Prompt 12: Two Minutes

12 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Fiction, Short Stories

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acting, Death, relationship, theatre, two minutes

Done for A Prompt Each Day, a daily dose of inspiration. We are to use the quote below for our inspiration.

Two Minutes

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Two minutes! She had only two minutes to make it all right. A shaky breath escaped her slightly parted lips as she stared at the unrelenting face of her director. Skido was like that; driving her until her got the best out of her. He always assured her she was good and he would be damned if he would allow her to think of herself any less.

“Come on, Tessa, one minute now.” Skido bellowed.

All she had to do was re-arrange her lovely features into a resolute look of abject weariness and say to her co-star.  “I’m leaving you, Sadat.” So what was wrong with her? Her delivery wasn’t going well. Sadat was waiting for his cue, the crew were waiting to spring into action but all she could see was his pale and sweaty face in his crib. Her husband had assured her that their baby boy would be alright.

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“No, I’ll feel better if you sent him to see the doctor.” She had insisted. But he had been more concerned she would be late for the rehearsals.

“Tessa, the two minutes are up. You need to relax. We try again after two more minutes. It’s obvious you aren’t yourself this morning.” Skido’s tone was kinder now and she could only nod.

Suddenly, his  phone shrilled into the uneasy atmosphere. Tessa saw him reach into his shirt pocket to retrieve the phone and suddenly she felt loud thuds in her chest as her heart beat staccato rhythms. Her breathing now came out in shuddering spurts.

From a far land, she could hear Sadat asking her, his tone worried. “Tessa, are you alright?”

She shook her head, words failing her. Through a haze, she saw Skido’s eyes widen in horror, then denial, then something like pity as he looked into her direction. She knew it then. Her baby boy was no more.

“Just two minutes after you left the house.” Were the last words she heard as she slid into a welcoming darkness.

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
12/06/15

I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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