Poet At Play: Desire, A Diamante

Tags

desire, Diamante, Hatred, love, relationship

Today I challenge myself to write a Diamante, a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. To know more about this form, please visit here: Thanks, Panchali.

Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7:Antonym/synonym for the subject

Desire

desire

passionate, dangerous

glowing, tantalising, encompassing

irresistible, obsessive, illusive, transitional

flickering, fading, yielding

fervent, treacherous

hatred

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

01/10/15

 

Poet At Play – Madness

Tags

Apartheid, Apathy, blacks, Hatred, racism, South Africa, xenophobia

Madness

madness took over certain streets in South Africa

black-skinned clad blacks got fed up with playing second fiddle

brothers and sisters from the diaspora were now pariah

in a frenzy of hatred, like fiends from Hades

they hacked, butchered, mutilated, maimed and wounded.

their assegais dripped red

the caked earth

a mirror of the economy, grew soggy with red.

but tell me

but how can you play second fiddle

when you are not even a first fiddle

Chaka would have puked in envy.

And the stars blinked in confusion.

mad men urged them on

and they raged on

black-skinned clad black bodies glittering with red sweat

while the whole world cried xenophobia!

we have now got  a new word in our lexicon,

with so many

dissections, analysis, explanations, commentary and deciphering.

and on they raged;

Genghis Khan would have clapped at their ferocity.

And with xenophobia on all our lips,

we do nothing!

We are too busy chewing on the word into a smooth paste;

or else it chokes us in the swallowing

and we regurgitate apartheid.

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

23/04/15

Haiku Horizons: Circle

Tags

Hatred, love, Nature, relationship

Done for Haiku Horizons.

Circle

you and I

sniffing and circling

dying embers

2

open bud

blooming in the sun

full circle

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

05/01/15

 

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

Poet At Play – I Have Him

Tags

Abyss, Evil, Hatred, Jesus, The Light

I Have Him

Daily

I seek answers

Finding none

I despair.

Daily

I seek

The glimmer

Beneath

The bleakness

 

Hatred

Has a face

Cloaked

In anonymity

She smiles

And Exposed

I stumble

Seeing

Yet not seeing

Blinded by

Her malice

 

I know not

Where I heed

I grope i

In the void

Seeking

To touch

Grasp

Hold

A bit of

Love

 

Hoping

The dangerous

Swirl

Of the abyss

Will not suck

Me

Into the

Vortex

Of her

Black soul.

 

But O,

What joy

And Peace

I am elated

Unfettered

Alive

Breathing 

 

I have

My Answers

I have

The Light

I have

Him

 

(C) Celestine Nudanu

2/8/12