20 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication
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Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available both in Paperback and Kindle format on Amazon. 🙂
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Empty Shells
billowing shores
the echo…
in empty shells
© Celestine Nudanu
20/07/18
22 Friday Jun 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry, Trivia
Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available in Paperback on Amazon. 🙂
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Fried Chicken
new drive through
a beggar first in line
for a piece of fried chicken
© Celestine Nudanu
22/06/18
Purchasing Links for Whispers of Dawn (A Book of Cherita)
Purchasing Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
19 Monday Feb 2018
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Afriku, Celestine Nudanu, Ghana, Haiku, Haiku Rhapsodies, Reviews
Hello my friends. It’s been awhile I know. 🙂 I’m so busy lately and this gives me little or no time for blogging. Just to let you know that I’m still around, I bring you a short but lovely review of my book Haiku Rhapsodies, by a satisfied customer on Amazon, Ama Wale. Thanks, Ama. 🙂 I am taking this opportunity to urge all of my friends who have purchased my book and yet to write a review on Amazon or elsewhere to please kindly do so. 🙂 You know how we authors lap up reviews. Those who haven’t bought copies should please do so also through Amazon. You won’t ever regret your decision. 🙂 Thanks you. 🙂
REVIEW
This is a refreshing read for any poetry lover! The author’s choice of words are at once spot on, and engaging- leaving the reader wanting more. This ought to be a must-read for literature students.
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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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08 Friday Dec 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Tales
by the fireside
my grandmother stirs the night
with tales
Failed Haiku November 2017
© Celestine Nudanu 08/12/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry
Hi my dear friends. Welcome to the month of November, a month where beautiful things happen. My fellow blogging friend, Rajani is hosting a micro poetry month this November on her blog, THOTPURGE. She is inviting friends and all to join in and share their haiku, senryu, cheritas and any form of micro poetry in the comment section on her blog, or add a link to your poem using the Mister Linky widget. Or just drop in, read and say hello! 🙂 Are you game? I am 🙂
Mango
a slice of sunlight
hits my window pane
ripened mango
© Celestine Nudanu 01/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
27 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Mirage
island mirage
beads of dew dot
the coconut leaf
Star Dust Haiku Journal – October 2017
© Celestine Nudanu 27/10/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
06 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Communal love
communal love
I sip a bowl of soup
with the moon
Failed Haiku ( A Journal of English Senryu – October 2017)
10 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Haiku, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry
Credit: Zachi Evenor – By Zachi Evenor – Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachievenor/9682551110/, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28084521
Morning Walk
morning walk
a snail uncoils…
from a snail
Failed Haiku Issue 20 (August 2017)
© Celestine Nudanu 10/08/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
28 Wednesday Jun 2017
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Afriku, Celestine Nudanu, Ghana, Haiku, Haiku Rhapsodies, Ste J
What more can I say, lovely folks? Another sincere and beautiful review from Ste J, a dear friend and insightful book reviewer who lives in England and blogs at Book to the Future. Thank you so much, Ste J. Please, read on. 🙂
Celestine is a prolific writer of poetry, plenty of which is showcased on her blog, Reading Pleasure. After gaining a fan base in the past few years, a book was a welcome treat for her readers. C’s work has featured in many international Haiku publications and as such is already well recognised within the Haiku community.
With clear imagery, each bite sized piece is simply written but layered with visual beauty 
and thoughts personal to the author, this intimate showcasing allows the reader to see a place through Celestine’s eyes. The concepts of the world around her is brought to us in a series delightful vignettes which read like a moment captured in time.
Perusing these, I find myself transported to an Africa I found tangible, Celestine’s eye for observing the things around her and combining them into something so evocative is a pure joy to read. There is a feeling of peace and clarity through the book that encouraged me to take each poem and then spend time to build up one’s image and the accompanying thoughts around it.
The beauty of such poems is that I allowed myself to get lost in this new place, imagination took over and each piece felt like part of a jigsaw building up a picture of an Africa that was in part real and in part my own romantic take upon it. Naturally Ghana and a distinctly African feel came up a lot in my thoughts as I read through but there is also a good amount of content which is distinct from the African connection and appeals at a universal level.
This is a good book to dip into, exploring various themes – Afriku, Nature, Haiku My Heart, The Divine, and Death – and I found myself taking my time to soak up the atmosphere and then build up an image of this personal take on what surrounds us. For me this book is like one of those coffee table books, that one picks up and chooses a page at random but in this case, each morsel is best digested singularly, with concentration and with much reflection.
What are you waiting for my dear? 🙂 Order your copies from Amazon or for those in Ghana, just inbox me! 🙂
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