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Morning Coffee – A Cherita

25 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, al li, Challenges, Cherita, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance

≈ 24 Comments

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breakfast, Cherita, coffee, Ghana, Life, marriage, relationship

The Cherita was created by al li.

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Morning Coffee

my morning coffee

sugar-less
but creamy

so is your kiss
not sweet
but full

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

© Celestine Nudanu
25/08/17
 

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Life – A Cherita

15 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry, Uncategorized

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anchor, Cherita, Ghana, Life, ship

The Cherita was created by al li.

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Life

stretch your hands and grasp mine

life slips by
a passing ship with no anchor 

that is my life
perhaps, your touch
will stable me

© Celestine Nudanu
15/08/17
 

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Haiku Horizons: Puzzle

20 Monday Jun 2016

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry

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Tags

Life, puzzle

Done for Haiku Horizon

Puzzle

life

still puzzling over

it

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
20/06/16

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Haiku Horizons: Pepper

23 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Romance

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Hot, Life, Pepper, spice

Done for Haiku Horizon

Pepper

 pepper hues

tasting the spice of

life

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
23/11/15

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Carpe Diem: Maple Leaf

11 Wednesday Nov 2015

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

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Canada, Ese, Life, Maple leaf, Nature, Peace

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

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Haiku Horizons: Fair

11 Monday May 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Tags

Fair, Life

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
 
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Carpe Diem Special: Actors We all Are

26 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Poetry

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Tags

Life, performance, stage

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
26/02/15

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Thursday Tanka: Hope

05 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga

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Tags

clouds, hope, Life, mysteries, Nature

  • The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.

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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
 
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Heeding Haiku With HA: What is Man?

21 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga

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Life, Man, William Blake

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)

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Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #8: Jacob’s Ladder

19 Monday May 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Poetry

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Jacob's ladder, Life, steps

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!

stairs

(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.

 

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