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Monthly Archives: August 2015

Haiku Horizons: Past

31 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Dumsor, Ghana, Past, star gazing

Done for Haiku Horizons. We’ve been rationing electrical power here for almost three years now. This is what I sometimes do on days I can’t sleep, when the whole area in is darkness, except for one or two homes that have gen sets.  🙂

Past

star-gazing

filling yawning void

of lights past

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
31/08/15

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Carpe Diem: Medicine

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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

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chicken soup, Family, fever, herbal medicine, Jerry Kilbride, malaria

Done for Carpe Diem. Inspired by modern times haiku Poet Jerry Kilbride (1930-2005) A biography of his life can be found here.  “Bulletin”of the Californian State Library Foundation (Number 84 – 2006 pages 17-22) 

Jerry Kilbride (1930-2005)

still in the taste of

afternoon tea…..

my grandmother’s brogue

© Jerry Kilbride

Medicine

still in the taste of

medicine

grandma’s chicken soup

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
25/08/15

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Haiku Horizons: Brush

24 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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brush, Nature, romance, summer

Done for Haiku Horizons.

Brush

that faint touch

his lips brushing against mine

warm summer night

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
24/08/15

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Haiku My Heart: How Long

21 Friday Aug 2015

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

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Basho, Cherry blossoms, longing, Nature, Relationships

Done for Haiku My Heart  and for Carpe Diem. The goal is to write an all new haiku inspired by Basho’s haiku below. The challenge is to use the words of the first line, ‘how long’.  🙂

how long

to wait for the cuckoo

about a thousand years

© Basho

 

How Long

how long

to wait for your return

cherry blossoms blooming

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
21/08/15

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Carpe Diem: Branding

20 Thursday Aug 2015

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

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branches, branding, Chiyo-Ni, Emotions, marriage, Persimmon, sex, tears

Done for Carpe Diem. And for Gilly

Inspired by Chiyo-Ni’s haiku and Gilly’s photo below to write mine. Chiyo-Ni’s haiku, poignant because it expressed her concerns on making love for the first time on her wedding night, appealed to me.

will it be bitter or not
the first time I pick
a persimmon

©Chiyo-Ni

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Branding

shedding tears

with broken branches

first branding

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
20/08/15

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Carpe Diem: Divinity

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

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

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Divine, divinity, Hallelujah, Jesus, Monophysitism

Done for Carpe Diem.

Monophysitism – Divinity is seen in everything and everyone. Based on the idea of seeing God in all and everything and that God is everything. So that nature is divine. Haiku and Monophysitism can be seen as the same idea.

Divinity

in the rising dawn

concerto of raindrops sings

His hallelujah

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
19/08/15

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Carpe Diem: Heat

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

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

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Afriku, heat, lizard, Margaret Chula, Nature, Rains

Done for Carpe Diem. Modern Times Haiku (Following the Summer footprints of Margaret Chula)

his early heat
a carp arches
into the raindrops

© Margaret Chula

My haiku in the same spirit and tone as Margaret Chula’s above:

Heat

noonday heat

a lizard basks

in yesterday’s raindrops

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
18/08/15

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Haiku Horizons: Lead

17 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Poetry

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Christian hymn, lead, lead kindly light, light, Nature, star

Done for Haiku Horizons.

lead kindly light

through the dense darkness

 a lone star

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
17/08/15

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Haiku My Heart: Bedroom Talk

14 Friday Aug 2015

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

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Autumn, Basho, Bedroom Talk, Cherry blossoms

Done for Haiku My Heart  and for Carpe Diem.

A revision of my favourite Basho Haiku

autumn night

dashed to bits

in conversation

© Basho

Cherry blossoms in Yoshino

I tried not to deviate too much from the tone and spirit. 🙂

Bedroom Talk

bedroom talk

scent of cherry blossoms

fills the gap

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
14/08/15

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Carpe Diem Choka: Nude Dance

12 Wednesday Aug 2015

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

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choka, Full moon, lovers, Nature, nudity, river bodies, romance

Done for Carpe Diem. A Choka. Japanese Long Poem

Nude Dance

5-7 5-7 5-7 5-7-7

spellbinding moment

the splinter of the full moon

in a silent stream

crave for a velvet night dip

hugging nudity

echoes of birdsong render

 shivers and circles

as one we dance on ripples

  sated souls, till smile of dawn

(envoy or hanka)

the night’s sweet madness

gives way to morning’s splinter

we are not witches

but lovers with hangover

from dancing nude for the moon

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
12/08/15

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