31 Monday Aug 2015
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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
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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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)
still in the taste of
afternoon tea…..
my grandmother’s brogue
© Jerry Kilbride
Medicine
still in the taste of
medicine
grandma’s chicken soup
24 Monday Aug 2015
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Done for Haiku Horizons.
Brush
that faint touch
his lips brushing against mine
warm summer night
21 Friday Aug 2015
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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
20 Thursday Aug 2015
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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 20/08/1519 Wednesday Aug 2015
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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
18 Tuesday Aug 2015
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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 18/08/1517 Monday Aug 2015
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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 17/08/1514 Friday Aug 2015
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Done for Haiku My Heart and for Carpe Diem.
A revision of my favourite Basho Haiku
autumn night
dashed to bits
in conversation
© Basho
I tried not to deviate too much from the tone and spirit. 🙂
Bedroom Talk
bedroom talk
scent of cherry blossoms
fills the gap
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
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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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