30 Thursday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Micropoetry, Poetry
Today is the last day of this wonderful challenge at Rajani’s. And we are ending it with a Jisei, Japanese poem about death. I choose to write the Jisei in cherita form.
Silver Clouds
these silver clouds
hide the flow of my tears
O empty soul
how life’s changing scenes
linger
to abate this grief
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28 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
Today at Rajani’s. It’s the Cherita (A six line poem, broken into three verses. The first verse has 1 line, the second has 2 and the third has 3)
the way
the petals open
to reveal sunlight
this morning
your smile opened the door
to a new beginning
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24 Friday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
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Rajani wants us to write a minute poem, 12 lines of 60 syllables broken into in 3 stanzas, following the 8/4/4/4 syllable pattern and the aabb/ ccdd/ eeff/ rhyme scheme.
will you be my lover tonight
siren of night
sing me to sleep
in your arms deep
like tranquil waters softly spill
over a hill
you are the breeze
I need to breathe
so be my lover one more time
when tides are high
and nights are dim
sing me to peace
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
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23 Thursday Nov 2017
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We are trying the Naani today at Rajani’s. The Naani is a four line poem with 20-25 syllables. The first two lines provide the subject that the next two bring to an interesting close.
I dream of shooting stars
collapsing into smithereens
the bouquet you offered
shrivels at your touch
2
the day you left
you left with the sunshine
how time flies
this sunshine in my baby’s smile
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22 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Africa Reading Challenge, Challenges, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
Today, Rajani wants us to try the Ghazal, a lyrical, challenging and utterly beautiful when it comes out right. The repeating end word and rhyming word of each couplet define the cadence of the ghazal and direct its mood. (The rhyming word appears twice in the first couplet) Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love, medieval Persian poets embraced the ghazal, eventually making it their own. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme. Well, it is a challenge right?
Morning
how serene you are this morning
your talc permeates my morning
your laughter-dimpled cheeks deflate
its contents to darken my dream morning
but I drink in your song
bidding me good night in the morning
how serene you look this morning of death
your pain my sorrow morning
my baby, my love, sing me your song of release
andante, andante, to wake up my morning
(Well, I tried. 🙂 )
© Celestine Nudanu 22/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
21 Tuesday Nov 2017
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Rajani wants us to write poems about poetry…LOL. 🙂
Soul Poetry (1/10/13)
I eat the words baked in your mud heart
I drink in your puddle of juices
flowing from your mouth
Poetry cries out in her veins. Clawing to be let out in verses reeking of firewood smoke seen above the thatched roofs of the village at sunset. Mothers are busy preparing the evening meal. Above the din of bleating goats and barking of stray dogs in heat, the wailing of hungry children can be heard.
thirsty and crazy I gulp your words
soothing my virgin soil
I crave for more
He is oblivious to the silence that gradually settles on the village. Mouths are busy chewing and throats are belching out the satisfaction of meals well digested. Under the fading glint of the twilight, they eat love, their meal for the night.
feed me nectar
from your spring
soul poetry
© Celestine Nudanu 21/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
20 Monday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry
Haiku should seize the essence of a moment anchored in close observation of nature. Rajani’s thinks this is truly the hardest form of poetry to get right to be simple yet profound, layered yet obvious, beautiful yet utterly truthful. And I do agree. 🙂
kisses
resounding in petals
the sway of Autumn
2
obsolete affair
tucked between the books
a shriveled rose
3
departing wind
on my lips
the first raindrop
© Celestine Nudanu 14/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
17 Friday Nov 2017
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Today is tanka day at Rajani’s. Somehow, I’ve never been good with the tanka. 🙂 So this is just a small poem.
Fatal Kiss
a smile
like the sun
peeks through slits of darkness
scented rays hug me
in a kiss of death
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
© Celestine Nudanu 17/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
16 Thursday Nov 2017
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Today at Rajani’s is a Shadorma day. (a six line poem following the 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable count.)
Nothingness
take me now
on wings of craving
I burn red
plasma red
before I deflate this shell
of gut nothingness
© Celestine Nudanu 16/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
15 Wednesday Nov 2017
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Today at Rajani’s we are going random words based on any happenings around you.
The Rains
the rains came down
not meteorites
defying all odds
and my thoughts are clean
in wait for the fermentation
of old desires
dormant beneath
withered breath
© Celestine Nudanu 15/11/17
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