16 Thursday Nov 2017
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Today at Rajani’s is a Shadorma day. (a six line poem following the 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable count.)
Nothingness
take me now
on wings of craving
I burn red
plasma red
before I deflate this shell
of gut nothingness
© Celestine Nudanu 16/11/17Links for Haiku Rhapsodies:
19 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.
Spring Blooms
3-5-3-3-7-5
crisscrossing
blossoms sway in breeze
white against
azure skies
for sure Spring waltzes its way
to our waiting hearts
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 19/03/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
12 Thursday Mar 2015
Posted in Challenges
The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.
Blaze
3-5-3-3-7-5
black monsters
snarling across space
zigzag stealth
not even
their ancient rage can dim the
blaze of the sunset
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 12/03/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
12 Monday May 2014
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Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt
Cover Revealed
Hmm, I sigh
feeling this yearning
to breathe in
these fresh crisp
fulness of poetic prose
dancing before me
(1-2-3-4-1)
so
I slide
my fingers up
your spine feeling the
smoothness
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
your cover
revealed, alluring
pulls me in
to savour
each mesmerising word, as
I browse this bookshop
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 09/05/14)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom.
05 Monday May 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt
Still experimenting with the Shardoma and Elfje, this is in honour of the over 230 girls abducted from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, by Islamist militants, Boko Haram.
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
above roofs
of those black clad eaves
we hear wails
of Rama
piercing through the golden skies
plea to a deaf God?
(1-2-3-4-1)
innocence
mutilated on
alter of brutality
for female breasts to
nurture
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
above sheaths
of dimming sunlight
we flounder
and ponder
the fate of the missing girls
just bring back our gems!
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (05/05/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
28 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry
Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt
We are to write the Shadorma or experiment using the Shardoma and the Elfje. (11 syllable or 11 words in 5 lines: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 1). My experiment: Hope it makes sense! 🙂
threshold © g.s.koch
Living Spring
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
dangle me
across the threshold
of your heart
the dampness
fizzling the glowing wicker
of what I hold dear
(1-2-3-4-1)
push
me into
this yawning darkness
spiced with herbs from
Hades
(3-5-3-3-7-5)
tantalise
my dying taste buds
yearning for
that last kiss
then, probably I shall gasp
for that living spring
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (28/04/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
21 Monday Apr 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry, Romance
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Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt.
A full moon is often interpreted in the romantic sense, other times with something involving magic, sometimes with evil or maybe just the wrong time to cut one’s hair or plant certain plants. Keeping in mind all the variations associated with the full moon here is my offering:
Moon
you and I
on a moonlit night
the leaves sigh
your witchcraft
playing havoc with my will
impotent, I yield
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (21/04/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom31 Monday Mar 2014
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Done for Mindmiserymenagerie, BastetsShardorma photo prompt#2.
The Shadorma is purported to be Spanish, and composed of six non-rhyming lines (sestina or sextet) with a syllable pattern of 3-5-3-3-7-5. It can have as many stanzas as you like, just as long as each stanza follows the syllable pattern mentioned above.
Scramble
unfinished
discarded art work
his piled clothes
in the square
it’s a free bargain, as we
scramble for his soul
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu (31/3/14) I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
