28 Friday Aug 2020
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Awards, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poerty
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Memories
graveside lilies
the weight
of his memories
Celestine Nudanu – 27/08/2020
Stardust Haiku – Issue 44 – August 2020
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Cherita, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
Hello to you all my lovely friends and a wonderful New Year to you 🙂 It’s good to be back here with you once again. I know I’ve missed a lot and it will take me ages o catch up, if ever I do at all. 🙂 So, here is a small cherita to start my 2019 blogging. Enjoy! 🙂
O yes. I’m excited to announce that my book, Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana, has done it again. Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana, has won the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) Literary Awards 2018 under the coveted First Book Award Category. Yay. 🙂 🙂
Songs – A Cherita
beyond velvet
blanket of skies
your song beckons
ululating
enchanting my waking dreams
21 Friday Dec 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Romance
Dear friends, it’s been a while now. I’ve missed you all but life got it in the way with so much pressure at work and other things I got myself involved in.:-) This is to let you know that I’m alive and well. I will go on break for the Christmas and rest small as we say here. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year. Sincerely thanking all who bought my books. I’m most grateful. 🙂 God bless you all. 🙂
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Sand Dunes
where the horizon
overshadows the sand dunes
he leaves me in tears
Third Place – MHP Academy Haiku Contest 2018
© Celestine Nudanu 21/12/2018
Amazon
23 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Events, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
Happy New Year to you all. 🙂 It’s taken me so long to write my first post of the year. I guess I was resting my mind but I come with good tidings! Happy to inform you that my troiku was the winning troiku in a Troiku Contest organized by Kristjaan Pannerman, host of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (CDHK) and Michael Smeer of Haiku Pond Academy on Facebook. The contest was to create a Troiku based on the late Jane Reichhold’s haiku below:
golden shade
under the redwoods
evergreen violets
© Jane Reichhold
And to honour my win, Kristjaan has featured me as a special guest on his blog today. Please visit his blog and read all the wonderful things he has written about me. 🙂
Below is my wining troiku based on Jane Reichhold’s:
golden shade
where my pillow rests
a slice of sunlight
under the redwoods
a worm burrows deeper
into itself
evergreen violets
a butterfly seeks rest
on the gravestone
© Celestine Nudanu
© Celestine Nudanu 23/01/18Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
20 Wednesday Dec 2017
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Sweet Felicitations of the Season to all my lovely friends, home and abroad and all May the Season bring you good cheer and all that you wish for.
I take this opportunity to thank all of you for downloading copies of my Award Winning Book, Haiku Rhapsodies from Amazon; God bless you abundantly. To my numerous customers who bought my Award Winning Book, Haiku Rhapsodies and who continue to buy copies even now, I say God richly bless you. I appreciate you all.
It’s been lovely blogging all year round, visiting and reading your wonderful works. I got so much fulfillment and joy from that. God bless you all.
Please, make someone, or your loved one happy this Season by giving him or her a copy of my Award Winning Book, Haiku Rhapsodies as a Christmas gift. Copies are available at the EPP Bookshop, Legon Mall, Accra, Ghana. You can also download or order copies from Amazon.
Wishing you all a wonderful Yuletide. God bless you.
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14 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publication
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Atukwei Okine, Awards, Best Blogger, Ghana, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku Rhapsodies, Independence, Reading Pleasure
Hello lovely folks,
To the glory of God. 🙂
On 11th November 2017, my book Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana won the Atukwei Okine Award for Best Poetry Book under the Poetry Category at the 2017 Ghana Association of Writers Literary Awards as part of Ghana’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations. 🙂
On 28th October 2017, my blog, Reading Pleasure won the Best Blogger Award 2017 under the Literature Blog Category at the Ghana Writers Award.
The Awards! The Book! 🙂
Atukwei Okine Award for Best Poetry Book
Best Blogger Award 2017
Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana
13 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Awards, Events, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
I woke up to wonderful news this morning. My Profile and Haiku have been included in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry. Yes, you read right! The prestigious Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry!!!
Very much appreciated, Billie Wilson and all the guys at the Haiku Foundation.
Please, check out the link below and read all about me, (Afua Peprah, aka Cestone, aka Celestine 🙂 🙂 🙂 ) and my haiku. God is good!!!
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19 Wednesday Oct 2016
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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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07 Tuesday Jan 2014
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
I’m most grateful to all my blogger friends, who comment, like and even just visit. Without you my blog would have been obsolete. 🙂 Special shout outs to Alice, Marie, Kim, Gilly, Rosy and Nana Prah. 🙂 🙂
13 Monday May 2013
Posted in Awards
Over the months, (did I say months?) Yes over the months, I have received many awards from wonderful blogging friends that I have not acknowledged. I must admit that sometimes, it feels lazy and monotonous to keep acknowledging these lovely awards. But etiquette and good neighbourliness dictate that you say thank you for every gift received, be it little or small. In the African culture, one wakes up at the crack of dawn to say thank you to anyone who brings you a gift, be it cash or kind.
A spine palm (Aiphanes horrida, Synonym Aiphanes cyryotaefolia) in Aburi Botanical gardens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In that vein, I have been going round saying thank you, ‘me daase‘ to all friends, loved ones and sympathizers who mourned with me during my father’s funeral a couple of weeks ago, be it in cash or kind, all who traveled the long distance to support me, my co-workers, friends and mates from the Class of 1985 of my Alma mater, Aburi Girls Senior High School, and the Uni, my in-laws, relatives from my mother’s side, (they were all there in their numbers). Since my return from the funeral I have been going round on weekends, with my husband and mother to thank all these wonderful people. The co-workers received their thanks during the week-days.
I would be remiss if I don’t extend the same heartfelt gratitude to you all who have shown so much support and, extended so much love my way during my bereavement. I know I have skimmed the surface of my thankfulness in other posts, but we say in Ghana that ‘lots of fish and meat in a soup do not spoil the taste’. So do bear with me as I express my truest appreciation and humbling love to you my blogging friends. Like I keep saying to my ‘buddies’ in Ghana, such love overwhelms me. I promise that in due course I will post some pictures of the funeral on my blog. 🙂
Now, my deep thanks to all the lovely friends who have honoured me with so many awards over the months. I am truly grateful. God bless you all. The following bloggers are being honourably mentioned and if I have forgotten some, do pardon me. It is a genuine oversight. 🙂
Shalom 🙂
Reading Pleasure 