Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #6: Bring Back Our Girls

Tags

abduction, Boko Haram, Chibok, Elfjie, Nigeria, Shadorma

Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt

Still experimenting with the  Shardoma and Elfje, this is in honour of the over 230  girls abducted from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, by Islamist militants,  Boko Haram.

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

above roofs

of those black clad eaves

we hear wails

of Rama

piercing through the golden skies

plea to a deaf God?

(1-2-3-4-1)

innocence

mutilated on

alter of brutality

for female breasts to

nurture

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

above sheaths

of dimming sunlight

we flounder

and ponder

the fate of the missing girls

just bring back our gems!

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 

(05/05/14)

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

Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #5: Living Spring

Tags

Elfjie, Shadorma, Threshold

Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt

We are to write the Shadorma or experiment using the Shardoma and the Elfje. (11 syllable or 11 words in 5 lines: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 1). My experiment: Hope it makes sense! 🙂

threshold © g.s.koch

Living Spring

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

dangle me

across the threshold

of your heart

the dampness

fizzling the glowing wicker

of what I hold dear

(1-2-3-4-1)

push

me into

this yawning darkness

spiced with herbs from

 Hades

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

tantalise

my dying taste buds

yearning for

that last kiss

then, probably I shall gasp

for that living spring

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 

(28/04/14)

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