Carpe Diem Tan Renga: Ancient Road

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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 Challenge: Nap

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Africa, beads, culture, eaves, heat, nudity, romance, summer, thatched roofs, tradition

Done for Carpe Diem. 

 Nap

midday nap

a bouquet of beads

her only cover

2

thatched eaves

her only cover

for a midday nap

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

28/07/15

 

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

Haiku Horizons: Fresh

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Africa, alcohol, culture, fresh, Nature, palmwine, tradition

Done for Haiku Horizons.

Fresh

noon day heat

scent of fresh palm-wine

lingering

My dear friend, Adjei Agyei Baah has also submitted his haiku based on the prompt, for publication of my blog whilst he works on getting a blog of his own.

green market
the scent of fresh mushroom
calling

(c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ghana

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

13/07/15

 

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

Carpe Diem Special: Afriku – Stones

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Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, culture, grinding stones, Haiku from Africa, pepper soup, Stones, tradition

Done for Carpe Diem.

CDHK features a wonderful haiku poet from , Ghana, Adjei Agyei Baah, co-founder of the Poetry Foundation Ghana. Adjei Baah has “invented” the (as he calls it) Afriku, the haiku from Africa. You can read more about the Afriku here. Below are his “stones”-haiku/afriku which he would like to share at CDHK and upon which we are to base our inspiration: I’m pleased to announce that Adjei Agyei Baah will be appearing here as a Guest soon. Be on the lookout for the interview. 🙂

shoreline pebbles

a reminder of how far

we have come

2

preparing

daddy’s delicacy

taking stones out of gizzard

3

stone temple

leftover boulders

add to reverence

Mine

grinding stone

her ebony hue

faded in pepper soup

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

02/07/15

 

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

Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #14: Ananse and the Gum-Man

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by the fireside, culture, Ghanaian folklore, Kweku Ananse

Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt. We are to imagine a time, when poetry games (in Japan) and story telling were the main pastime in the evenings. No television, radio or computer just people sitting ’round the fireplace. In Africa, storytelling is part and parcel of us. Even our dance gestures and moves tell stories of their own. In Ghanaian folklore, Ananse, (A-nan-se) or the Spider is credited with much cunning and guile and he becomes the subject of many stories woven and told around the fireside in the evenings, often with a morale.

(3-5-3-3-7-5)

warming hands

over Nana’s flames

that sizzles

fat corn cobs

crickets, and owls make music

 to Ananse’s wish

(1-2-3-4-1)

defying

family, death

Ananse cheats all

we giggle with excitement

trepidation

(3-5-3-3-7-5)

cobs roasted

we chew and exhale

Nana’s jaws

 in tandem

we sigh at Ananse’s fate

at hands of gum-man

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 

(29/06/14)

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

September Heights Day 10: Kitchen

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Africa, culture, kitchen, tradition

September Heights.  Day Ten. The Prompt is Kitchen

Kitchen

grinding stone and smoke

her lot as African mum

she wears it with pride

 

 

(2) serve me lunch

in the heart of your home

where love brews

 

 

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

10/09/13

 

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

#FridayFictioneers: Janus

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culture, gods, Janus, tradition

I’m back again on the Friday Fictioneers bandwagon after a one month break. Sometimes, the workload gets too much and I just lie low. I do miss the FF group. We are just too super to be glossed over. Anyway, this week’s prompt, the first for February is by kind courtesy of Claire Fuller, and as usual Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, is the able and fine captain of the ship. Please, find below my story. (102 words) Feel free to critique and comment. Thank you.

Janus

They say the beginning is like the end, like the two-faced god. I never understood this until Kwamena died.

The priest decreed that a son of the land would die to atone for the sins committed by the princess who eloped with the slave. But why must Kwamena die? Is there no mercy in the breast of the two-faced god?

But the beginning of the end of Kwamena came silently upon me and my dreams yielded a coffin. I did not see it clearly until they brought my son’s body home in a sealed box from the whiteman’s land.

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