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

 

Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:

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Scarlet – A Cherita

Tags

Bitterness, Cherita, Ghana, relationship

The Cherita was created by al li.

Scarlet

render me scarlet

and cut me open
with your venom

dissect me with your fangs
perhaps you will see
what makes me tick

© Celestine Nudanu

31/10/17

 

Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:

Amazon

Amazon.co.uk

Goodreads

Poet At Play – A Blight On My Memory

Tags

beanbag, Bitterness, Memories, You Hold Me Back

I was inspired to write these words after a friend drove her partner to his untimely death with her coldness of heart and cruel treatment of him.

A Blight On My Memory

You hold me back

With your moans

My ecstasy

In your desire

Is flat

 

You hold me back

With your Tears

They hold

No meaning

For me

 

You pulled

My spirit 

From its shelter

You squeezed

The pulsating

Essence

Of me

 

You tossed

My soul

Like a bean bag

Up and down

Even as my blood

Dripped

On your

Alabaster skin

Red hot

Not even

The mercurial heat

Could melt

The icicles

Of your heart 

 

I am a dry shell

Empty husk

Fit only as feed

For the fire

That once burned

In the hearth

Of your core

Burning for only

Me

 

Let me be

Leave me be

Your tear drops

Are bloody pebbles

They shatter

And desecrate

The stillness

Of my new abode

 

Your fake wails

A pain

Machete sharp

Piercing

A blight

On my memory

 

(C) Celestine Nudanu

14/08/2012