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OUT AND ABOUT

01 Monday Jun 2020

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Events, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Publication, Religion, Trivia

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COVID 19, Ghana, Haiku, lockdown, Muse, Publication, Stardust Haiku, writing history

Hello dear friends and loved ones. I’m out and about now. 🙂! And it feels good. The cares of this world kept me hiding out, even as my muse left me in limbo. Throughout the lockdown, I could not string a line of haiku or even a sentence for my novel in progress which I started ages ago.
But I read and read and read and still reading my books piling up on the shelves of my study I ranted about months ago. It felt and feels so good to just relax in the arm chair with the AC on full blast (after all President of Ghana is paying half the cost of electricity for us for three months), reading a Joel Rosenberg or a Daniel Silva. Real cool indeed and mind you, hard cover. Though Kindle is convenient, there is nothing like reading a physical book, in your hands, occasionally caressing the cover while giving it a sneak peek.

 

But come out I should and did with this haiku of mine published in the Stardust Haiku online Magazine edited by Valentina Ranaldi- Adams. Very much appreciated Valentina. 🙂

I guess with this, dear friends, my muse might be back in full swing. At least I hope so. 🙂

echoes of silence

reverberating . . .

empty tomb

Celestine Nudanu – Ghana.

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Haiku My Heart: Absence

26 Friday Apr 2019

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

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Ghana, Haiku, Nature, Pentatonix, relationship, sound of silence

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Absence

bleak moon

the weight of silence

at his departure

Celestine Nudanu – 26/04/19

 
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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: Meadows

12 Friday Oct 2018

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

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breakfast, Ghana, Haiku, love, Nature, romance

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Meadows

a taste of morning

on my tongue

undulating meadows

© Celestine Nudanu – Haiku Foundation
10th October 2018

© Celestine Nudanu
12/10/2018

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Haiku My Heart: Words

28 Friday Sep 2018

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

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azure, blue, colours, Haiku, hues, Micropoetry, Nature, Rainbow, words

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Words

azure blue

the chance to paint words

across the sky

© Celestine Nudanu – Stardust Haiku
September 2018

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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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Exquisite haiku and senryu from Ghana

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Haiku My Heart: Fried Chicken

22 Friday Jun 2018

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

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Afriku, capitalization, Ghana, Haiku, industry, kentucky fried chicken

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

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Fried Chicken

new drive through

a beggar first in line

for a piece of fried chicken

© Celestine Nudanu
22/06/18

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Exquisite haiku and senryu from Ghana

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Haiku My Heart: Flighty Dreams

08 Friday Jun 2018

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

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Cherita, Ghana, Haiku, Nature, Publication, Whispers of Dawn

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

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Flighty Dreams

window seat

I watch my dreams disappear

through moving clouds

(Haiku Windows – The Haiku Foundation, May  2018)

© Celestine Nudanu
08/05/18

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Haiku My Heart: Origami

29 Thursday Mar 2018

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

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Cherita, Ghana, Haiku, Nature, Origami, Publication, Spring, Whispers of Dawn

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Origami

folding and unfolding

in the breeze…

Spring origami

© Celestine Nudanu
29/03/18
 
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Haiku Rhapsodies – Yet Another Review

19 Monday Feb 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Afriku, Ghana Association of Writers, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Publication, Reviews

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Afriku, Celestine Nudanu, Ghana, Haiku, Haiku Rhapsodies, Reviews

Hello my friends. It’s been awhile I know. 🙂  I’m so busy lately and this gives me little or no time for blogging. Just to let you know that I’m still around, I bring you a short but lovely review of my book Haiku Rhapsodies, by a satisfied customer on Amazon, Ama Wale. Thanks, Ama. 🙂 I am taking this opportunity to urge all of my friends who have purchased my book and yet to write a review on Amazon or elsewhere to please kindly do so. 🙂 You know how we authors lap up reviews. Those who haven’t bought copies should please do so also through Amazon. You won’t ever regret your decision.  🙂 Thanks you. 🙂

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REVIEW

This is a refreshing read for any poetry lover! The author’s choice of words are at once spot on, and engaging- leaving the reader wanting more. This ought to be a must-read for literature students.

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