Haiku My Heart: Angels

Tags

Angels, Christianity, Divine, dreams, Ghana, heavens, Nature, Religion

linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Angels

waking dream

I grasp at gossamer wings

fleeting angel

Celestine Nudanu – 25/09/2020

Haiku My Heart: Mangoes

Tags

Ghana, Nature, Poverty, stree children

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Mangoes

taste of heaven

for the homeless child

ripened mangoes

Celestine Nudanu – 26/06/2020

Haiku My Heart: Shadow Walk

Tags

Ghana, Nature, shadow

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Shadow Walk

noonday heat

stepping into itself

my shadow

Celestine Nudanu – 19/06/2020

 

Haiku My Heart: Echo

Tags

Death, Ghana, parting words, relationship

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Echo

echo my heart

the silence in his

parting words

Celestine Nudanu – 05/06/2020

Oh, But He Can Breathe!

Tags

America, Bklack Africa, Death, George Floyd, Ghana, justice for Floyd., racism, solidarity, White Supremacy

FOR GEORGE FLOYD

I can’t breathe!

I can’t breathe!

Oh mama, help me

please sir, l can’t breathe!

yet, the alabaster white man pressed on

all 200 pounds of him

knee heavy as lead on my neck

snuffing my life

 a lit match stick, its glow fleeting

Mama, l can’t breathe!

please sir, l am dying1

but of course

he has to steal my breath

ebbing away

to ignite his miserable life

a cowardly act

I can’t breathe sir!

my pleas of agony

fading

my Black breath in its dying throes

oxygen to fuel his brand

of white supremacy

so he can breathe

Breathe on me

breathe of God

so I can have life

as you welcome me home!

RIP Floyd

Celestine Nudanu – 2/06/2020

OUT AND ABOUT

Tags

COVID 19, Ghana, Haiku, lockdown, Muse, Publication, Stardust Haiku, writing history

Hello dear friends and loved ones. I’m out and about now. 🙂! And it feels good. The cares of this world kept me hiding out, even as my muse left me in limbo. Throughout the lockdown, I could not string a line of haiku or even a sentence for my novel in progress which I started ages ago.

But I read and read and read and still reading my books piling up on the shelves of my study I ranted about months ago. It felt and feels so good to just relax in the arm chair with the AC on full blast (after all President of Ghana is paying half the cost of electricity for us for three months), reading a Joel Rosenberg or a Daniel Silva. Real cool indeed and mind you, hard cover. Though Kindle is convenient, there is nothing like reading a physical book, in your hands, occasionally caressing the cover while giving it a sneak peek.

 

But come out I should and did with this haiku of mine published in the Stardust Haiku online Magazine edited by Valentina Ranaldi- Adams. Very much appreciated Valentina. 🙂

I guess with this, dear friends, my muse might be back in full swing. At least I hope so. 🙂

echoes of silence

reverberating . . .

empty tomb

Celestine Nudanu – Ghana.

Haiku My Heart: Star

Tags

Ghana, Nature, Pentatonix, silence

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Star

full moon

a lone star splits the night

into sounds of silence

Celestine Nudanu – 13/03/2020

Miracle, A Poem

Tags

Cedric, Christianity, Family, guest poet, relationship with God, 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

Haiku My Heart: Sunset

Tags

Ghana, Nature, romance, sunset

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Sunset

sunset

fading glow sheaths

the earth’s nakedness

Celestine Nudanu – 21/02/2020

 

 

Haiku My Heart: Valentine

Tags

Ghana, Pentatonix, relatiionships, romance, Valentine, Vanilla Ice

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Valentine

vanilla ice

melting into…

wells of silence

Celestine Nudanu – 14/02/2020