03 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
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Cherry blossoms, childhood, family life, Ghana, Nature, romance
The Cherita was created by al li. I’ve fallen in love with this lovely poetry form. And for each working day I shall endeavour to post a cherita a day on my blog.
Cherry Blossom
childhood diary
dropping my first kiss
into a cherry blossom
the memory
of my gasp
as the petals stir
(Linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
© Celestine Nudanu 03/08/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
02 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Done for Haiku Horizons
link
linking enemy lines
a trail of …
cherry blossoms
© Celestine Nudanu
02/05/2017
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30 Monday Nov 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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Done for Haiku Horizon and Carpe Diem.
Litter
even beautiful
a shimmer of dry leaves
littering the grounds
My inspiration is Ese’s below:
first cherry blossoms
despite the bites of morning frost
still beautiful
© Ese
21 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Poetry
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Done for Haiku My Heart and for Carpe Diem. The goal is to write an all new haiku inspired by Basho’s haiku below. The challenge is to use the words of the first line, ‘how long’. 🙂
how long
to wait for the cuckoo
about a thousand years
© Basho
How Long
how long
to wait for your return
cherry blossoms blooming
14 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Romance
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Done for Haiku My Heart and for Carpe Diem.
A revision of my favourite Basho Haiku
autumn night
dashed to bits
in conversation
© Basho
I tried not to deviate too much from the tone and spirit. 🙂
Bedroom Talk
bedroom talk
scent of cherry blossoms
fills the gap
22 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga
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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
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