12 Friday Mar 2021
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance
Tags
Afrika Haiku Network, Afriku, Ghana, Nature, Publication, romance
linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
night tremour
a lone star shimmers
into oblivion
Celestine Nudanu (Ghana)
Mamba (Africa Haiku Journal) Issue 11
06 Friday Nov 2020
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Events, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Non-Fiction, Poetry
16 Wednesday Sep 2020
Posted in African Women Writers, Death, Events, Non-Fiction, Poerty
Sleep No More
flimsy wind
your candle glows to dim
on the whimsical threshold
of love…
the darkest side
2
on leafy green parchment
your story unfolds, glittering
to conclude
on a bare earth
one with the dust
not even ashes
grey as death
can seal the gaping holes
of your bullet riddled body
ash to ash
dust to dust
3
sleep no more
the hand that sheds
innocent blood
the blood you took
from her virginity
sinking your fangs in
to draw life
her essence
to feed your misplaced basest instincts
on the altar of her love
you desecrate
with booms of your gun
a soul is snuffed
hers…
kill and thou shall be killed
sleep no more
Celestine Nudanu – 16/09/2020
Rest in Perfect Peace, Barbara Tommie
14 Friday Aug 2020
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Non-Fiction, Poerty, Romance
10 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Dawn, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Non-Fiction, Poerty, Romance
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Music
dawn winds
music
in the whispering trees
Celestine Nudanu – 10/07/2020
12 Thursday Mar 2020
Posted in Guests, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion
My son Cedric penned this poem and I just had to post it here.
Miracle
Is my life ending?
I lie on my bed
My mind in turmoil
I try to the best of my ability
But I still can’t shake off this feeling
That something can go wrong
If only I can turn back the wheels of time
I will make it right
2
I do not go through this alone
Many others feel the same anxiety
Only I am a little less apprehensive
Because there is a sliver of light penetrating this darkness
Believing in the Divine Being that keeps me moving
Believing that a miracle will come my way
The day of reckoning has come upon me
Cedric Nudanu – 12/03/2020
14 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publication
Tags
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
08 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Cherita, Choka, Haiku, Nature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Uncategorized
Join the party at Rajani’s with your own micro poem in the comments section or using Mister Linky. There are no rules – whatever the muse whispers!
This morning I heard sad news that my dear friend and fellow blogger, Kimberley Floria has passed on to glory. Kimmy was such a lovely person, full of life and love for humanity. She was such a brilliant poet, who wrote with a beautiful passion full of candour. She bravely fought lupus for over eight years and her humour and upbeat attitude was both endearing and an inspiration.; Kimmy darling, rest well in the bosom of your maker. I will miss you my dear, but I know that the good Lord has called you to rest from your toils. May the angels sing Hallelujah even as they receive your precious soul in eternity. Adieu, Kimmy darling.
Thirteen Ways of Looking in the Mirror – For Kimmy
(1)
a little butterfly
seeking her own space
my twin
(2)
the waltz of a falling leaf
is but a languid drop to earth
even the winds fall in tandem
with its rhythm
haste not in departing
slowly let your breath
extinguish in me
(3)
your silence
is the only one I know
for I have seen silence
even in whispers
from the grace
at dawn
(4)
3-5-3-3-7-5 – A Shadorma
reading you
I read me in you
we are words
echoing
fresh emptiness of the soul
life is but vapour
(5)
the gentle nudge
I felt at dawn
was not hubby waking me
to a mad moment of love
but it was you
a breeze really
perfume breathless
you envelope me
in a farewell dance of death
so, dance on Kimmy
(6)
5-7 5-7 5-7 5-7-7 – A Choka
you mirror this pain
as if on your wedding night
breathless abandon
you approach this agony
in throes of rapture
and when the darkness descends
never to depart
your face mirrors the sublime
when the earth becomes your dust
(7)
noonday heat
a butterfly
rests in my shadow
(8)
graveside lilies
the little girl inhales
her father’s memory
they say
the colour of death
is grey
but in dying
you exhale
only clouds of silver
(10)
mirror on the wall
do I look like mother
the dimple in her cheek
mocks me
(11)
and still I rise
poised thousand times
on the scepter of death
(12)
oh teach me to number my days
for my ways are not your ways
for to me to live is joy
and to die is gain
we are but twins
littered in one day
but where is your victory
oh death
where is your sting
I live on in you
(13)
and still I rise
on the wings of faith
my victory total
even in death
© Celestine Nudanu 08/11/17
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22 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, al li, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance
The Cherita was created by al li.
credits: http://www.thecherita.com/
Tears
my tears flow fast
the rivers of Babylon
when I remember our nirvana
the hollow shell
of broken promises
now our legacy
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
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05 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Events, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Tags
barbecue, Death, disaster, Fire, Ghana, Inferno, jigsaw puzzle, John Mahama, torrential rain
Dedicated to the 200 and over Ghanaians who lost their lives in a raging fire on June 3, 2015 during torrential rains. http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2015/June-4th/death-toll-in-twin-fire-flood-disaster-hits-200.php
Inferno
they say we must be careful what we wish for
but one must wish, must one not? and dream
and if our dreams turn into a nightmare
must we not jolt from the horror,
wish away the terror and continue dreaming?
for one day the dream will turn into a reality.
a reality, their reality!
unimaginable!
yes but a reality nonetheless
of heaven opening its mouth and gushing rain
a metamorphosing inferno.
and in the aftermath,
the politicians play jigsaw puzzle with words, promises!
and we the citizens we gasp, wail, bare our teeth in morbid stupefaction.
we shake our heads and mumble had I known!
we keep wake for the charred human barbecue,
200 and still counting.
do we rail at fate, God or our own ineptitude?
this is one khebab we cannot chew and swallow.
we did not wish for it, after all.
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 05/06/15
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