Haiku Horizons: Puzzle
20 Monday Jun 2016
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
Tag Archives: Life
Haiku Horizons: Pepper
23 Monday Nov 2015
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Romance
Done for Haiku Horizon
Pepper
pepper hues
tasting the spice of
life
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
23/11/15
Carpe Diem: Maple Leaf
11 Wednesday Nov 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for for Carpe Diem. Written in the same tone, mood and spirit as Ese’s below.
a maple leaf
I search for life line
in my palm
© Ese
Maple Leaf
maple tree
falling seeds budding
in my palm
2
maple leaf
inhaling the scent of
peace
Maple Leaf
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
11/11/15
Haiku Horizons: Fair
11 Monday May 2015
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Haiku Horizons.
Fair
it’s not fair, she cries
but life is not fair, he says
only fair is fair
2
fairest heart
your smile guides my steps
mother mine
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 11/05/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! ShalomCarpe Diem Special: Actors We all Are
26 Thursday Feb 2015
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Done for Carpe Diem. We are to write a tanka in the same mood and spirit as the one by renowned Haiku poetess, Fuyuko Tomita below:
Actors we all are, she said
mirrors to reflect
each other
We all leave the stage, she said
and left a smile in mine
Mine
in the shade of life
we play our roles in blurred weaves
mirroring ourselves
until final curtain call
when our shadows will dance on
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 26/02/15I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Thursday Tanka: Hope
05 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga
- The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.
Hope
these cottony clouds
drifting where the breeze takes me
they colour my dreams
whisper mysteries untold
and of breath renewed in hope
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 05/02/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Heeding Haiku With HA: What is Man?
21 Wednesday May 2014
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Done for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with HA. This week, we are to distill William Blake’s poem below and write a haiku or tanka in the same spirit. I don’t know if I made any sense 🙂
William Blake : The Fly
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
Mine
what is man
that walks on all fours
we are flies
2
a light swat
then we are no more
puffing wind
3
to live or to die
as wanton boys to mango
we’re squashed with a breath
so I am no less than me
and you are no less than you
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 21/05/14)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #8: Jacob’s Ladder
19 Monday May 2014
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Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt. We are to look at these stairs and try to imagine where they’d take us. Or we could choose our own photos or art work and write about it!
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
I’m on a
pathway to nowhere
this distance
I call life
at once tortuous and joyful
but will I get there?
(1-2-3-4-1)
perhaps
Jacob’s ladder
might propel me
to reach there yet
sublime
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (19/05/14)
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
Challenge Wednesday: Life
24 Thursday Apr 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
Challenge Wednesday by Jeremy of The Boi Poet is back after a short break.This week’s lines of poetry are below and we are to link back to Jeremy:
- the wise stars bedding over me – Young by Anne Sexton
- Haunt me with deities I never saw – There May Be chaos Still Around The World by George Santayana
- One day won’t we all have to be brave? – Greenwich by Kirsten Dierking
Life
these stars flicker their luminescence
purging souls of their wantonness
we bleed from the scorching touch
cleansing ritual of old
these mad deities
haunting our dreams
we kowtow
them as
lord
of
the skies
all-seeing
in their splendor
garnishing the moon
but shadows gather sheaves
our work is up for tally
and soon, won’t we have to be brave
when night portents the dimming of stars
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (24/2/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #3: Echoes
14 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt. This is a difficult one for me!
Veranda : © g.s.koch
Echoes
searing eyes
laser sharp, ancient
blazing a
tortuous path
across mountains and oceans
echoes of history
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (14/04/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom