15 Thursday Oct 2020
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I can’t imagine the last time I participated in the Carpe Diem Haiku Challenge. but today, I have been drawn to the blog of Kristjaan, the wonderful host, in celebration of the 8th Anniversary of the Challenge, this October 2020. I have truly missed reading Kristjaan’s works and that of the all the haijin. 🙂 I hope my offering captures today’s theme . 🙂
Done for Carpe Diem
Daydream
sea blue
swimming
in the depth of his eyes
© Celestine Nudanu 15/10/2020
23 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem. The challenge is to write a troiku based on the haiku below by my very self 🙂
empty calabash
reflecting the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
© Celestine Nudanu
Troiku
empty calabash
reflecting the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
empty calabash
no sweetness
in the beggar’s life
reflecting the fading sun
the penny
in his calabash
a beggar sits in gloom
watching the pennies go by
fading sun
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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
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24 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Micropoetry, Poetry, Tan Renga
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Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, Ancient Roads, culture, Nature, tradition
Done for Carpe Diem.
We are to complete the following haiku by Adjei Agyei Baah, with our own two lines of 7-7 syllables each.
© Adjei Agyei-Baah
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
Mine
I tread ever so cautious
the souls not to resurrect
Tan Renga
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
I tread ever so cautious
 the souls not to resurrect
28 Friday Oct 2016
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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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25 Tuesday Oct 2016
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Done for Carpe Diem
Folding Paper
autumn breeze
folding and unfolding
his body and mine
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21 Friday Oct 2016
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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
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
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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 Â30 Friday Sep 2016
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Done for Carpe Diem and Haiku My Heart
Leafless Tree
 autumn breeze
the tree scatters its petals
among friends
Here are the links to my collection of Haiku, HAIKU RHAPSODIES, for your viewing and purchasing pleasure:
https://www.amazon.com/HAIKU-RHAPSODIES-Verses-Celestine-Nudanu-ebook/dp/B01LEZ39YS#nav-subnav
https://www.amazon.com/HAIKU-RHAPSODIES-Verses-Celestine-Nudanu/dp/9988232861/
https://www.amazon.com/author/celestinenudanu
If it does touch your heart to purchase a copy, I should be grateful for a candid review posted on the Amazon page. 🙂
20 Tuesday Sep 2016
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Done for Carpe Diem
Harvest Moon
harvest moon
still counting melons
I forget the sky
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 20/09/16 ÂHere are the links to my collection of Haiku, HAIKU RHAPSODIES, for your viewing and purchasing pleasure:
https://www.amazon.com/HAIKU-RHAPSODIES-Verses-Celestine-Nudanu-ebook/dp/B01LEZ39YS#nav-subnav
https://www.amazon.com/HAIKU-RHAPSODIES-Verses-Celestine-Nudanu/dp/9988232861/
https://www.amazon.com/author/celestinenudanu
If it does touch your heart to purchase a copy, I should be grateful for a candid review posted on the Amazon page. 🙂
Reading Pleasure 