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Songs – a Cherita, and an Award

30 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Awards, Cherita, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication

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Accra International Book Festival, award, Celestine Nudanu, Cherita, Ghana, Haiku

Hello to you all my lovely friends and a wonderful New Year to you 🙂 It’s good to be back here with you once again. I know I’ve missed a lot and it will take me ages o catch up, if ever I do at all. 🙂 So, here is a small cherita to start my 2019 blogging. Enjoy! 🙂

O yes. I’m excited to announce that my book, Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana, has done it again. Haiku Rhapsodies, Verses from Ghana, has won the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) Literary Awards 2018 under the coveted First Book Award Category. Yay. 🙂 🙂

Songs – A Cherita

beyond velvet
blanket of skies

your song beckons
ululating
enchanting my waking dreams

I sleep no more

Celestine Nudanu
28/01/19

 
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Haiku My Heart: Bead Earrings

19 Friday Oct 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry

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Africa, beads, Cherita, culture, Family, Ghana, love

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Bead Earrings

with a naughty wink

he completes  
my joy  

a mom’s pride
soars on his gift
of bright beads earrings

(an old poem that I re-wrote into cherita. Please if you love this, and it touches your heart, you may want to buy a copy of my book of cherita on Amazon, links below. I would please love a review. Thank you. 🙂)

© Celestine Nudanu
19/10/2018
 
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Whispers of Dawn Gets Another 5 Star Review

12 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Cherita, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication, Romance

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Cherita, Ghana, Publication, review, Whispers of Dawn

Whispers of Dawn: A wonderful book you’ll keep coming back to! 🙂 So says Brendon Kent, Author and poet from the UK. Thank you my friend. 🙂

Cherita is relatively new in the grand scheme of poetry having only been created in 1997 by Ai Li. It is a poem which consists of 6 lines and tells a story.
At the beginning of the book, Cherita is defined as follows:
“Cherita is the Malay word for story or tale. A Cherita consists of a single stanza of a one-lined verse, followed by a two-line verse, and then finishing with a three-line verse. It can be written solo or with up to three partners.”

Whispers of Dawn is a wonderful collection of these short story poems by Celestine Nudanu.The book is broken down into 6 themes; Whispers, Making Love, The Dark Side of Love, Death, Saving Grace and Random Thoughts. There are 85 poems in this collection. All poems in the book are centralized with one poem per page.
Celestine is not afraid to tell it as it is…her stories are real, heartfelt and soul-searching.
In the Whispers section, the beautiful;

the way

the petals open
to reveal sunlight

this morning
your smile opened the door
to a new beginning

In the Making Love section;

see me

fall to pieces
as you strum

on the breeze
andante
andante

and in the Dark Side of Love section;

the day you left

you left
with the sunshine

how time flies
this sunshine
in my baby’s smile

The next section is Death;

dark clouds

billowing curtains
close his days

I watch, helpless
as his breath fades
with my memories

In the Saving Grace section;

in my distress

I seek your face
beyond the blue vastness

a whisper, just a breeze
will do
for this soul on fire

and finally in Random Thoughts this very apt poem;

today

you and I will sing
with the wings

for with the storm brewing
a tomorrow
is not certain

Whispers of Dawn is a collection you will want to read and reread…I know I will be!

Brendon Kent
author and poet

Please order your copies now and don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon. 🙂  🙂 Thank you. 🙂

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Haiku My Heart: New Life

24 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Uncategorized

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Cherita, Christ, Christianity, Ghana, Jesus Christ, nautre, New LIfe

New Life in Christ

there’s so much to say

words fail me
this wondrous gift

a chance to breathe
undeserved
new life

© Celestine Nudanu
24/08/18

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

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Haiku My Heart: Shells

20 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Afriku, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication

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Afriku, Cherita, Ghana, Nature, Publication

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

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Haiku My Heart: Sunset

13 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication

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Celestine, Cherita, Death, Ghana, Nature, Paul Lenzi

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sunset

the fading glow

of hibiscus

(For Paul Lenzi – RIP)
© Celestine Nudanu
13/07/18
* On a lighter note, Whispers of Dawn is now live and available for purchase in Kindle Format on Amazon.

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Whispers of Dawn Now Available in Kindle

11 Wednesday Jul 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Cherita, Dawn, Ghana Association of Writers, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication, Reviews, Romance

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Amazon, Celestine Nudanu, Cherita, Ghana, Kindle, Whispers of Dawn

Good News to all my friends out there! Whispers of Dawn, (A book of Cherita) is now live and available for purchase in Kindle Format on Amazon. Yay. 🙂 Please download your copies and kindly leave a review on Amazon for me after reading. Thank you all so very much for your lovely support over the years. 🙂 God richly bless you. 🙂

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Whispers of Dawn Gets Another Top Review

09 Monday Jul 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Cherita, Dawn, Ghana Association of Writers, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication, Reviews

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Cherita, Ghana, Gillena Cox, Publication, review, Whispers of Dawn

Here is a wonderful review of my book Whispers of Dawn from my blogging friend in Trinidad & Tobago, Gillena Cox.

Yes she has done it again! Celestine Nudanu has dipped into her conscious yin and yang pulling out some trinkets for us; some sparkly as fine-cut diamonds, some dark as somber onyx. She has spilled across pages more than 50 poems called cherita. Telling her personal stories and sharing her cultural essence.

Choosing this concise genre to detail issues such as love, longing, despair, gratitude, death and self-realization, is no easy task, yet this is the holy grail that this poet embarks on, and succeeds in her attainment, as ‘Whispers of Dawn’

The cherita is a 6 line poem which tells a story, in fact it is a Malay word meaning story and is a form created by Ai Li.

Ai Li, in her foreword of this collection remarks, “The cherita genre could almost have been created just for Celestine, for her to gift to us her stories”

Best wishes with your outreach pursuits for a fine collection of poems, dear Celestine. Certainly, this is not a book you can read only once.

THANKS FOR AGREEING TO BOOK SWAP Celestine [ i have sent her a copy of my ‘Pink Crush’.
much love
gillena

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Haiku My Heart: First Rays

06 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication

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Cherita, Ghana, Nature

Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available in Paperback on Amazon. 🙂

First Rays

streaming…

through open window

first rays of summer

Haiku Windows – The Haiku Foundation, June  2018)

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

© Celestine Nudanu
06/07/18

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Haiku My Heart: Butterfly Dance

29 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Cherita, Events, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication

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butterfly dance, Cherita, Ghana, Haiku, Nature, Stardust Haiku Journal, Starlight Haiku, summer moon

Hurray! My second poetry collection and first book of Cherita is now available in Paperback on Amazon. 🙂

It is also gratifying to note that my haiku below was the pick or was the Starlight for the June Issue of Stardust Haiku Journal. 🙂

Butterfly Dance

summer moon

a butterfly dances

on its shadow

Stardust Haiku (June 2018)

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

© Celestine Nudanu
29/06/18

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