18 Friday Aug 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Romance
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(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)
Fog
morning fog
my lover’s footprints
still visible
Failed Haiku Issue 20 (August 2017)
© Celestine Nudanu 18/08/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
17 Monday Jul 2017
Posted in Africa Reading Challenge, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry
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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. 🙂
Please, if you have time do visit the Cherita site, http://www.thecherita.com/flipbook/ to read wonderfully written Cherita, edited by Larry Kimmel. The Flipbook contains 76 new and original cherita by 32 poets from the UK, USA, India, Australia, Ireland, Canada and Ghana. Thank you. 🙂
credits: http://www.thecherita.com/
Preying Mantis
preying mantis
you sink into
this ancient ritual, branding me
not even dreaming of death
and dying, will free me
from this macabre dance
© Celestine Nudanu 17/07/17
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05 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
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al li, Cherita, dreams, Larry Kimmel, love, relationship, romance, storytelling
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. 🙂
Please, if you have time do visit the Cherita site, http://www.thecherita.com/flipbook/ to read wonderfully written Cherita, edited by Larry Kimmel. The Flipbook contains 76 new and original cherita by 32 poets from the UK, USA, India, Australia, Ireland, Canada and Ghana. Thank you. 🙂
credits: http://www.thecherita.com/
dreams
they come true
don’t they?
if only
for a brief moment
in your arms
Celestine Nudanu
05/07/17
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry
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. 🙂
Please, if you have time do visit the Cherita site, http://www.thecherita.com/flipbook/ to read wonderfully written Cherita, edited by Larry Kimmel. The Flipbook contains 76 new and original cherita by 32 poets from the UK, USA, India, Australia, Ireland, Canada and Ghana. Thank you. 🙂
credits: http://www.thecherita.com/
Finding You
embracing
all you are
and all you will ever be
I dare not wish for more
on this path
to find the real you
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21 Monday Nov 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Romance
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Done for Haiku Horizons
Drink
recaptured moment
drinking in the flavour
of a lost love
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 21/11/16Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
31 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
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God, love, Peace, relationship
Done for Haiku Horizon
Trick
the trick
is to love one another
for peace
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 31/10/16Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in African Women Writers, Guests, Poetry, Romance
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Hi folks, I said I was going away for a while but I just had to come back and post this beautiful poem written by a dear friend and dedicated to her husband on the occasion of their twenty-second wedding anniversary. Enjoy. 🙂
(Specially for Nana Kwesi Agyepong
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOU
There was silence
With my three friends we entered the Physics Lab
And there you were; you sat alone
Looking a little startled
as if your thoughts had been rudely interrupted
Our eyes met…….uh, my heart skipped a beat
my gaze still fixed on you
what was this strange feeling
your smile disarmed me
your voice confused me.
Your gentleness overwhelmed me
After twenty and two years…
It has always been you. It has been L.O.V.E..♥
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Oh it’s been 22 years already
four beautiful and adorable girls
and all the happenings in between
but it has always been you
In sickness and in health
in joy and in pain
in distress and triumphs
it has always been you
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So on the occasion of our 22nd wedding anniversary,
I am thankful for:
Your unconditional love
and attention and care for me and the girls
Being who you are and allowing me to be the person
I have always wanted to be.
Your patience, calmness and gentleness
which still overwhelms and me
For the next year and beyond
Stand by me and let us stand together
for it has always been you
Walk with me and let us walk side by side
for it has always been you
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Run with me and let us run together
for it has always been you
Play with me and let us play together
for it has always been you..♥
Sleep by me and let us sleep together
for it has always been you..♥
Sing with me and let us sing together
For it will always be you..♥
Pray with me, and let us pray together
For it will forever be you…♥
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Happy 22nd wedding anniversary my love, Nana Agyepong
and thanks for saying “I do” 22 years ago.
You still take my breath away
♥➖➖➖➖➖➖➖♥
Copyright © Abena Agyepong
18th December, 2015
11 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in Afriku, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Choka, Haiku, Poetry
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Africa, Christian charity, Christmas, Family, Giving, injustice, MP, Politics, Poverty, relationship, wealth
Done for for Carpe Diem, (Georgia’s Special 2nd Days of Christmas – Choka) and for Haiku My Heart.
Days of Christmas
5-7 5-7 5-7 5-7-7
image of my child
salivates at nothingness
this drives me crazy
to put more energy in
fanning the fire
that will cook only water
to bathe off the grime
from scavenging on the heap
behind the MP’s mansion
it is Christmas eve
I can hear the chiming bells
Armageddon Church
last year the priest fed the kids
and winked at my girl
It is a no go this year
church charity stinks
but dare I reserve some pride
charity has lots of face
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the Harmattan breeze
biting, burned and cracked my skin
charcoal a fiery red
The water now at a boil
waiting for the kids
to return to nothingness
now, what will they bring?
Freshly baked cakes, brown as earth,
bottles of coca-cola
with no expiry date or
stale crackers from yesteryear
moldy leg of a chicken
dry as the hag I’ve become?
Or my brand of emptiness?
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Mama! There she is
dark skin glowing, defying
the harsh Harmattan
mockery of perfect skins.
her teeth flashed in smile
I swear the gleam in her eyes
made the Christmas lights
in the MP’s mansion pale.
now, she is me all over
(envoy or tanka)
she raise tiny hands
then I see the envelope!
ah, Harmattan breeze
her long tresses billowing
my husband’s gift waves at me
01 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
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Today I challenge myself to write a Diamante, a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. To know more about this form, please visit here: Thanks, Panchali.
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7:Antonym/synonym for the subject
Desire
desire
passionate, dangerous
glowing, tantalising, encompassing
irresistible, obsessive, illusive, transitional
flickering, fading, yielding
fervent, treacherous
hatred
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem.
Mother’s Scarf
lingering fragrance
I stumble upon mother’s scarf
frayed with memories
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mother’s scarf
I stumble upon her memories
wrapped in fragrance
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 05/08/15
