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Tag Archives: Hunger

Carpe Diem: Melons

13 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Basho, food, Hunger, Melons, Nature, nourishment, Poverty, sundown

Done for Carpe Diem.

Melons

sundown

a mother gathers

her unsold melons

2

counting melons

at sundown

rumbling stomach

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
13/05/15
 
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Blood

18 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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blood, Hunger, Poverty

Done for Haiku Heights

Blood

our red eyes

Squeezing blood from stone

hungry kids

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
18/11/13

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January Small Stone: Stone Soup

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

Posted by readinpleasure in Non-Fiction, Stones

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Hunger, Poverty, Stone Soup

Today my small Eighth stone is a bit long and in the form of a story prompted by Susan Daniel’s post. Please, humour me.

Stone Soup

Jan '13 Mindful Writing ChallengeI was quite little when my mother narrated this story to me. “There was once a poor widow with three children. One evening there was nothing to eat at home. Her children were hungry but she had nothing to give them. Unable to bear their woeful looks anymore, she lighted the hearth and put a pot of water on the fire. When it boiled she collected some stones and put them in the pot and covered it. By now the children had started to cry, their stomachs growling.

“My children, I am cooking some food for you. I know you love yams so I am boiling yams for you. Have patience, Soon the yams will be ready to eat”

Their crying stopped and soon, with hopes of having food to eat, they were smiling.

“Fan the fire for so the yams will cook faster.” she urged them.

They happily took turns in fanning the fire and they could actually smell the wafting aroma of the boiling yams. This seemed to energise them and they worked harder at the fanning. After a while, the children grew impatient and restless

“Mother, are the yams not cooked?”

“A little more time, my children and we will soon have our meal. Keep fanning the fire.”

The fanned and fanned till their arms ached and still the yams were not cooked. Finally exhausted and immune from the gnawing hunger, the children fell asleep behind the hearth.

When I heard this story, my initial reaction was that the widow was cruel. But my mother said to me. “Think about it, Afua.”

And then it hit me. Little as I was then, I knew my mother was teaching me a lesson in gratitude. Here was a poor widow with nothing to give her children but ‘stones in soup’. And here was I, lucky to be provided with all my wants and still I grumbled and would throw tantrums anytime my mother asked me to wait until the end of month when she received her salary as a teacher to get me my needs.

I never forgot this story. And today, I do my best to inculcate gratitude, graciousness and thankfulness in my three boys.

Yes, Susan, stones can be cooked. 🙂

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January Small Stones: Darling Boy

07 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Stones

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Hunger, romance

Jan '13 Mindful Writing ChallengeDay 7 of the Mindful Writing Challenge. My sixth Small Stone. Please, enjoy

Darling Boy

A surprise visit

To my office today

With his mesmerizing smile

Darling boy brings

Lunch for my hungry stomach

And joy to my heart

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7/1/13

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January Small Stones : Hunger

06 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Stones

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Hunger

Jan '13 Mindful Writing ChallengeDay 6 of the Mindful Writing Challenge. My fifth Small Stone below. Please, enjoy

Hunger

The hut is bare and the pots are dry

The fire in the hearth long gone cold

Clinging to her mother’s worn skirts

A little stomach rumbles incessantly in protest

Echoing the multitudes asleep in forced stupor

A mother’s love is tested

In the most horrible way

Who will buy my ‘priceless’ gem?

I must feed the Multitudes

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
6/1/13

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Starve

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku

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Hunger, Passion, Starve

Day Eighteen (18) of the September Haiku Heights Challenge and the prompt is Starve, with lots of possibilities. But my lazy self will offer only one:

Starve

My hot pouting lips

Yearning for a soothing breeze

Starves me of his kiss

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(18/09/12)

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