03 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon
First Smile
merry-go-round
the dizzying spell
of my son’s first smile
(Failed Haiku Issue 15, Journal of English Senryu, March 2017)
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 03/03/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
27 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Haiku Horizons. And A Prompt Each Day. Inspired by the words: Follow and Mirror. (Nothing personal, folks 🙂 )
Wrinkles
mirror image
the crackling wrinkles
of my mother
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 27/07/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
26 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Poetry
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Africa, canoe, fish, lagoon, livelihood, Motherhood, Nature, Poverty
Done for Carpe Diem. And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon.
unsold fish
a mother’s reflection
darkens the lagoon
2
gurgles
listing canoe
drinking up the lagoon
21 Friday Jun 2013
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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African children, African setting, by the fireside, cooking pot, Evening Lull, Motherhood, Peace, the african mother
Evening Lull. Prompt on Carpe Diem
Evening Lull
by the fireside kids’ sweet birdie chatter fill mother’s cooking potEvening Lull (2)
warm evening lull love brew in African pot mama’s tasty meals Evening Lull (3) cool evening lull gentle whispers of the trees make soothing music Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 21/06/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
26 Sunday Aug 2012
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
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Motherhood
Fresh kiss Of fullness Her lot She embraces Glad To be A woman Agony Her name Is sweetness Birthing Joy and Sorrows Fulfilled Is she? Time and Her reward Glowing Or Fading Will tell (C) Celestine Nudanu 26th August 2012
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