Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017: #7

Tags

Bitterness, relationship

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!

I’m so sorry I couldn’t post or participate in Rajani’s fun for the past days. I attended a two-day Continental Colloquium for Pan-African Winters in Accra here. It is ending tonight with an Awards Dinner that I couldn’t be part of since I had to report at the office for an emergency. 🙂

Does this resemble a tanka? 🙂

Burning

carrying you in my heart 

is a weighty affair

if only I could off load you 

light, paperweight

just like I drop my pants

© Celestine Nudanu

07/11/17

 

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Carpe Diem Tan Renga: Ancient Road

Tags

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

© Celestine Nudanu 

(24/05/17)

 

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Carpe Diem Universal: Rising Moon

Tags

Autumn, Jane Reichhold, love, Moon, romance

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

 

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Haiku My Heart: Eclipse

Tags

Ghana, lunar eclipse, Nature, rain clouds

Done for Haiku My Heart

Eclipse

they say

the moon will cover

the sun

but what do we see

rain clouds gathering

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

02/09/16

Fresh Snow

Tags

Africa, Christmas, Illusion, Mirage, Nature, Snow, weather

Done for for Carpe Diem and for Haiku My Heart.

This may be my last post for the year as I will be breaking for a while to sort out my WIP. But I shall be back! 🙂 Merry Christmas to all my lovely friends out there. Wishing you much joy, love and the peace that is Christ our Saviour. God bless you all. 🙂

Fresh Snow

illusion

fluffy flakes falling

in backyard

manna from heaven

melts in a mirage

2

first snow

melting the coldness

in our hearts

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

18/12/15

 

Carpe Diem Challenge: “Ah! Those Cherry Blossoms”

Tags

Cherry blossoms, life cycle, love, Nature, romance, seasons, Spring

Done for Carpe Diem. 

Today’s episode of Tokubetsudesu is to write a soliloquy no renga, where one poet creates a series of haiku (no more than six) for a given theme or hokku and then concludes it by connecting it in a full circle to the hokku.  Please visit Carpe Diem for more on this. I must add that this was quite a challenge in more ways than one. 🙂

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Hokku

Ah! those cherry blossoms their beauty amazes me again – finally spring is here

© Chèvrefeuille

the season’s sprightly morning

puts a smile in my coffee

2

ah picture perfect

silver beads on pinkie buds

I am tickled pink

the sight of soft blooming spring

on a morning kissed by dew

3

blossoming cherries

scent weaves on gossamer wings

a first breath of spring

garlands adorning faint love

a reminder of rebirth

4

echoing kisses

resounding in soft petals

the coming of spring

a potpourri of colours

out in fiesta of love

5

ah, spring

 blooming of cherry blossoms

in the cycle of re-birth

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

22/07/15

 

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Haiku My Heart: Frozen Waltz

Tags

Eternity, Mabson Southard, Music, Nature, petals, Spring, tango, Waltz, waters

Done for Carpe Diem. And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. I’m adding my two lines of seven syllables each to complete the hokku below into a tan renga.

From deep in the spring

clear reflections rise to meet

falling plum petals

Mabson Southard

Mine

in graceful midair tangle

and a waltz frozen in time

Tan Renga

From deep in the spring

clear reflections rise to meet

falling plum petals

in graceful midair tangle

and a waltz frozen in time.

 

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

12/06/15

 

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Thursday Tanka: Foxgloves

Tags

cure, foxgloves, heart, love, Medicine, Nature, Poison, Ring My Bells, romance

The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.

Foxgloves

5-7-5-7-7

bells sigh in the breeze

pink blooms reeling off their musk

a heady poison

yet cure for my fragile heart

a balm for perpetual sleep

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

07/05/15

 

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Thursday Shadorma: We Rise

Tags

blooms, Easter, Glory, Inspiration, Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Spring

The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.

3-5-3-3-7-5

between death

and resurrection

the veil peels

 and darkness

fades to a gossamer thin

revealing the glow

2

of immortal bloom

his shroud a blossom in Spring

the tomb his victor

then hush, bleeding piece of dust

we rise, for He is risen.

Happy Easter 🙂

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

02/04/15

 

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Haiku My Heart: Out From The Grass

Tags

butterfly, Dew, Drizzle, grass, Nature, Shoha

Done for Carpe Diem Tan Renga challenge. And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. We are to complete Shoha’s (1727-1772) haiku below with our own inspiration two of lines (preferably of 7-7 syllable each)

at the wagon’s approach,
out from the grass
flies the butterfly

Mine

dew droplets glitter on wings

drizzle sprays the morning walk

Tan Renga

at the wagon’s approach

out from the grass

flies the butterfly

dew droplets glitter on wings

drizzle sprays the morning walk

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

27/03/15

 

I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom