31 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
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God, love, Peace, relationship
Done for Haiku Horizon
Trick
the trick
is to love one another
for peace
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 31/10/16Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
28 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Done for Carpe Diem and Haiku My Heart.
Fountain Pen
silver fountain
beneath the spiraling jets
a love letter
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27 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Events, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
Lisa Hill, whose fine book blog, ANZ Litlovers Litblog I follow and comment on, has reviewed my book Haiku Rhapsodies on both her blog and Goodreads.
Thank you Lisa. 🙂 Please read on… 🙂
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may remember that I have made the
acquaintance of a poet called Celestine through her comments, and I have made reference to the haiku that she shares on her blog, Reading Pleasure. I subscribe to this blog, and so Celestine’s haiku pop into my inbox on a regular basis.
Haiku is, because of its apparent simplicity, more often a travesty of poetry, inane, banal and derivative, but Celestine has adapted this form to create small jewels of thought. Often I find her words consoling, sometimes they lead me to pause and wonder. And I have wanted to have them, not just in ephemeral cyberspace, but mine to have and read whenever and wherever I like. Today, to my delight I have discovered that Celestine has published a collection, Haiku Rhapsodies, and although I can only have it in a Kindle edition, I bought it immediately. (I really want a print edition, to keep by my bedside, to read as I read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, much as many would read a Bible).
The poems are grouped into four themes:
•Afriku
•Nature
•My Heart
•The Divine
I can quote one from Afriku because it is part of the product description at Amazon.
empty calabash
reflects the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
Just eleven words, and yet immediately we feel it. A beggar has spent all day fruitlessly. He, or maybe she, has nothing. Nothing at all. There is no judgement, no appeal to the western pocket yet we know that this powerful image is representative of a great injustice in our world.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/10/11/h…
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25 Tuesday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
Done for Carpe Diem
Folding Paper
autumn breeze
folding and unfolding
his body and mine
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24 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Done for Haiku Horizon
Shift
deepest night
even the owl is silent
graveyard shift
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21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Done for Carpe Diem and Haiku My Heart.
At Carpe Diem We are to use these words to write four sets of haiku; rain, young leaves, buds, mountain, silence, monk, river, summer breeze, she, snow, sparrow, blue sky.
Full Circle
overnight rain
young leaves sprout into colours
a carnival of buds
2
mountain dew
kneeling in the silence
a monk in prayer
3
by the moonlit river
she dances naked
summer breeze wanes
4
overnight snow
the sparrow’s flight
tracks the blue sky
20 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
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Dandelion Boom
dandelion bloom
I pretend to inhale
your musk
yellow now
and then fading
© Celestine Nudanu
(The Bamboo Hut, Autumn 2016)
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19 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Wet Morning
wet morning
steaming coffee
and your musk
which must I savour now
I lack for the will for both
(c) Celestine Nudanu
(The Bamboo Hut, Autumn 2016)
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18 Tuesday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
The Night You Left
I cried
the night you left
only once
not because of the cold pillow
but for the stars that refused to shine
Celestine Nudanu
(The Bamboo Hut, Autumn 2016)
Nine (9) of my tanshi (short poems), including the above, have been published in the Autumn 2016 Issue of the Bamboo Hut. Do hop over for your reading pleasure, if you can spare the time. Thank you. 🙂
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 18/10/16Buy Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Tan Renga
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Done for Carpe Diem
Inspired by Jane Reichhold’s tanka below:
oo old for new love
the moon rises each night
as I remember
the backseats of strange cars
it’s helpful light afterwards
Rising Moon
rising moon
spreading iridescence
and confetti
autumn’s breath
over our entwined bodies
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 11/10/16
Reading Pleasure 