OUT AND ABOUT

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COVID 19, Ghana, Haiku, lockdown, Muse, Publication, Stardust Haiku, writing history

Hello dear friends and loved ones. I’m out and about now. 🙂! And it feels good. The cares of this world kept me hiding out, even as my muse left me in limbo. Throughout the lockdown, I could not string a line of haiku or even a sentence for my novel in progress which I started ages ago.

But I read and read and read and still reading my books piling up on the shelves of my study I ranted about months ago. It felt and feels so good to just relax in the arm chair with the AC on full blast (after all President of Ghana is paying half the cost of electricity for us for three months), reading a Joel Rosenberg or a Daniel Silva. Real cool indeed and mind you, hard cover. Though Kindle is convenient, there is nothing like reading a physical book, in your hands, occasionally caressing the cover while giving it a sneak peek.

 

But come out I should and did with this haiku of mine published in the Stardust Haiku online Magazine edited by Valentina Ranaldi- Adams. Very much appreciated Valentina. 🙂

I guess with this, dear friends, my muse might be back in full swing. At least I hope so. 🙂

echoes of silence

reverberating . . .

empty tomb

Celestine Nudanu – Ghana.

Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017: #14

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Cherita, Ghana, Muse, Music, romance

Today at Rajani’s we are re-visiting the Cherita, a six line story-poem form invented by Ai-Li.

Fire

I’ll sing to your dawn

on gossamer harps
you shall be my song  

while  I softly strum you
my fire
my muse

© Celestine Nudanu

14/11/17

 

Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:

Amazon

Amazon.co.uk

Goodreads

Muse – A Cherita

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heat, Inspiration, Muse, writing

The Cherita was created by al li. I’ve fallen in love with this lovely poetry form. And for each working day I shall endeavour to post a cherita a day on my blog. 🙂

credits: http://www.thecherita.com/

Muse

heat, pulsating heat

this girl is on fire 
burning with words

oh for a muse
to set the words
ablaze!

© Celestine Nudanu

19/07/17

 

Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:

Amazon

Amazon.co.uk

Goodreads

Haiku My Heart: Feb 14

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Muse, romance, Valentine

Done for Recuerda Mi Corazon

Feb 14

Feb 14

only my muse and I

on the couch

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

24/02/17

 

Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:

Amazon

Amazon.co.uk

Goodreads

January Small Stones: My Muse

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Muse

Day 11 of the Mindful Writing Challenge. My 10th Small Stone

My Muse

Sitting behind my computer in the office

It is break time

My lover calls me with an urgent passion

And I cannot resist.

I yield as the words

Kiss the page in wild abandon.

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

11/1/13

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

Poet At Play – Muse In Limbo

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Limbo, Muse

Muse In Limbo

Days Now

I am in limbo,

My muse refuses

To spike up

 

Glued to the screen

Not even the flicker

Will ignite my muse

 

Others, inspiring

Posts and blogs

Only make me

Marvel at

So much creativity

And genius

Out there.

 

Yet my muse

Is silent.

Perhaps

I am under

The weather

Perhaps

It is menopausal

Or a touch of blues

Or the boys

And hubby

Wearing me out

With incessant

Demands

Or I am

Just plain tired

 

Reading a chore

Not the joy

I know

Work a drag

As I lag

 

Wake up

Musy muse

Revive yourself

Blaze the laze

Away

Erase the haze

Dazzle

Thirsty cisterns

An Elixir

Your words

 

 

(C) Celestine Nudanu

22/08/12

Poet At Play – Sleep No More

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Lady Macbeth, Muse, Sleep No More

Sleep No More

 

It is late in the night,

So late

The dead silence

Soothes my eyelids

Luring me

To shut them

And succumb

To the sweetness

Of sleep.

 

And why not? 

My dear one

Already yields

To the lull

Of the night

His gentle snores

Mingle

With the child-like

Imitation

Of our boys,

The two sounds

Blending

A discordant

Music

Creating

The only whispers

Of the night.

 

Behind my computer

I give  birth

And ignore

The cold place

By his side

Rightfully mine

I ignore

The look

Before he drifts off,

Hot or cold

Or both

I choose not

To see

Nor know

 

And I resist

Sleep,

For my muse

Has murdered

My sleep.

I am no

Lady Macbeth

But  I shall

Sleep no more

Till I have

Scribbled

And released

My muse

 

(C) Celestine Nudanu

15/07/12