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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Haiku My Heart: Blue Moon

31 Friday Jul 2015

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

≈ 42 Comments

Tags

bewitchment, Blue Moon, halo, light, Moon, Nature, phenomenum

Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon and for  Carpe Diem.

Blue Moon

blue moon

sated with your iridescence

my hour of bewitchment

2

silent splinter

through the velvet darkness

a blue halo

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
31/07/15

 

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Carpe Diem Challenge: Sunrise

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

Mt Fuji, Nature, sunrise

Done for Carpe Diem. 

Credits: Mt. Fuji Goraikou

Sunrise

endless skies

dreaming of the sunrise

atop Mt Fuji

2

bathed

in the glow of Mt Fuji

I’m one with the universe

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
29/07/15
 
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Carpe Diem Challenge: Nap

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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

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Africa, beads, culture, eaves, heat, nudity, romance, summer, thatched roofs, tradition

Done for Carpe Diem. 

 Nap

midday nap

a bouquet of beads

her only cover

2

thatched eaves

her only cover

for a midday nap

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
28/07/15
 
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Wrinkles

27 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Africa, aging, desert, hot sun, Motherhood, Womanhood, wrinkles

Done for Haiku Horizons. And A Prompt Each Day. Inspired by the words: Follow and Mirror. (Nothing personal, folks 🙂 )

Wrinkles

mirror image

 the crackling wrinkles

of my mother

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Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
27/07/15
 
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Haiku My Heart: Lilly

24 Friday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

Africa, drums, Good Morning, Lilly of the Valley, morning, Nature

Done for A Prompt Each Day, Recuerda Mi Corazon and for  Carpe Diem.

Phrasephase8

Lilly

morning’s light

in a love affair

with the buds

2

 morning perfume

the valley’s drums

softly stirring the lilies

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
24/07/15
 
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Carpe Diem Challenge: Strawberry

23 Thursday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

heat, Nature, Passion, strawberries, summer

Done for Carpe Diem. 

Strawberries

summer heat

throbbing on our tongues

strawberries

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
23/07/15
 
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APED – Prompt 53: Humanity

23 Thursday Jul 2015

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

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APED, clouds, Faith, Humanity, Mahatma Ghandi, Nature, oceans

Done for Gilly and a A Prompt Each Day. Inspired by the following words and photo:

beach

Humanity

shoreline

tracing my steps

where oceans meet clouds

2

entangled

I search for grain of truth

in emerald purity

3

unblemished waters

stray sands disappearing

into billowing waves

4

where the oceans meet the clouds

you and I

are one

Quoted8

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
23/07/15
 
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Carpe Diem Challenge: “Ah! Those Cherry Blossoms”

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

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

≈ 28 Comments

Tags

Cherry blossoms, life cycle, love, Nature, romance, seasons, Spring

Done for Carpe Diem. 

Today’s episode of Tokubetsudesu is to write a soliloquy no renga, where one poet creates a series of haiku (no more than six) for a given theme or hokku and then concludes it by connecting it in a full circle to the hokku.  Please visit Carpe Diem for more on this. I must add that this was quite a challenge in more ways than one. 🙂

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Hokku

Ah! those cherry blossoms their beauty amazes me again – finally spring is here

© Chèvrefeuille

the season’s sprightly morning

puts a smile in my coffee

2

ah picture perfect

silver beads on pinkie buds

I am tickled pink

the sight of soft blooming spring

on a morning kissed by dew

3

blossoming cherries

scent weaves on gossamer wings

a first breath of spring

garlands adorning faint love

a reminder of rebirth

4

echoing kisses

resounding in soft petals

the coming of spring

a potpourri of colours

out in fiesta of love

5

ah, spring

 blooming of cherry blossoms

in the cycle of re-birth

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
22/07/15
 
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Haiku Horizons: Sweep

21 Tuesday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

Adjei Agyei Baah, Afriku, decay, Nature, Sweep

Done for Haiku Horizons. And for Carpe Diem. One of Adjei Agyei Baah’s Afriku is below is my inspiration today. I’m not sure I was able to do justice though. For more of his great works, please visit Carpe Diem and Afrikuland

ancient road…

the trails of the masters

absorbed in fallen leaves

© Adjei Agyei Baah

 

Mine

ancient paths

his footsteps

swept by the stench of decay

 

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
21/07/15
 
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Haiku My Heart: Bridging

17 Friday Jul 2015

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

≈ 45 Comments

Tags

Bridge, Dawn, Drizzle, morning, Nature, splinter, Sun

Done for Carpe Diem.  And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. 

Bridging

moon drizzle

a prelude

to the morning’s splinter

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
15/07/15
 
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