Haiku My Heart: Rebirth

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compassion, gift, Joan Halifax, re-birth

Done for Carpe Diem Haiku Shuukan. And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. 

Emphasis is on the E; Engage, enact ethically. Then end the interaction and allow for emergence of the next step. This is the final step in Joan Halifax’s G.R.A.C.E. method. And it’s all about closure. We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Rebirth

reaching out

moment of rebirth

in gift form

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

19/06/15

 

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Haiku Horizons: Gift

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breath, gift, March, Nature, season

Done for Haiku Horizons.

waiting to inhale

this gift of March

a scented breath

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

02/03/15

 

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Precious Surprise

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gift, Kenneth Rexroth, surprise, Written in teh Sky

Today, I had a precious surprise visit from no other person than handsome looking Delalorm Semabia, my blogger friend from Ghana. Mind you I’d never seen Dela before. We only relate online. Dela’s blog African Soulja is dedicated to African Poetry review and he does a masterful job of it, believe you me. Do pay him a visit and sample the delights on his blog! 🙂

And the double surprise? Dela, an Engineer by profession, traveled to the US on official visit and brought me this lovely book shown above: Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese. Translated by Kenneth Rexroth! I just fell in love with the curt book of poetry, with its black cover and gold and red etchings. I think that is so wonderful and of him, don’t you think so too? 🙂 He walked straight into my office this afternoon, with this lovely present,  his face bathed in genuine smiles. We talked at length after the initial shock and squeals of laughter and I could see straight that he is such a warm and a caring young man.

The contents? Poems and haiku by Matsuo Basho, (yes Basho), Yosako Akiko and Murasaki Shikibu among others. And his autographed words: For Celestine, because you always write above the Sky, Dela.! 🙂 Wow! If these words are not enough to make my day then I don’t know what else would! 🙂

Thanks so much dear Dela. May God replenish all you spent on me ten fold (a Ghanaian prayer :-). Hope to see you soon on Citi Fm! 🙂

Haiku My Heart: My Earrings

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beads, earrings, gift, Nutifafa

Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon.

My Earrings

he makes my day

with gift of bright bead earrings

a mother’s pride

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 

(14/3/14)

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