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Tag Archives: summer

Haiku My Heart: Hiking Trail

02 Friday Nov 2018

Posted by readinpleasure in African Women Writers, Challenges, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry

≈ 20 Comments

Tags

Ghana, Nature, Sea, summer

(linked to Recuerda Mi Corazon.)

Hiking Trail

hiking trail

a seagull’s cry

leads me to summer

© Celestine Nudanu – Haiku Foundation
31st  October 2018

You may want to buy  copies of my poetry books on Amazon and Barns & Nobles, links below. I would please love a review. Thank you. 🙂)

© Celestine Nudanu
02/11/2018
 
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Exquisite haiku and senryu from Ghana
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Carpe Diem: End of Summer

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

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

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Tags

Autumn, leaves, Nature, summer

Done for Carpe Diem. End of Summer.

End of Summer

end of summer

all the leaves have come to roost

awaiting autumn

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
01/09/15

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Haiku Horizons: Brush

24 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Tags

brush, Nature, romance, summer

Done for Haiku Horizons.

Brush

that faint touch

his lips brushing against mine

warm summer night

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
24/08/15

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Thursday Tanka: Laughter

06 Thursday Aug 2015

Posted by readinpleasure in Uncategorized

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Tags

Autumn, happiness, laughter, Nature, summer, Sunflower

Done for Gilly and a A Prompt Each Day. Prompt 67. Inspired by the following words and photo:

suns

Laughter

streaming from the clouds

yellow suns of happiness

dizzying with grace

fading echoes of summer

teasing the scent of Autumn

quoted9

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
06/08/15

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Carpe Diem Challenge: Nap

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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

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Africa, beads, culture, eaves, heat, nudity, romance, summer, thatched roofs, tradition

Done for Carpe Diem. 

 Nap

midday nap

a bouquet of beads

her only cover

2

thatched eaves

her only cover

for a midday nap

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
28/07/15
 
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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Carpe Diem Challenge: Strawberry

23 Thursday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

heat, Nature, Passion, strawberries, summer

Done for Carpe Diem. 

Strawberries

summer heat

throbbing on our tongues

strawberries

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
23/07/15
 
I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom

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Haiku My Heart: Waterfall

10 Friday Jul 2015

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

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Tags

Beauty, colours, Nature, Silver, summer, waterfall

Done for Carpe Diem.  And also for Recuerda Mi Corazon. 

Waterfall

aqua freshness

 verdant rocks

bathed in silver

2

ecstatic cascade

waterfalls

caressing summer heat

3

waterfalls

not even  the stars

can dim all that sparkle

My dear friend, Adjei Agyei Baah also from Ghana asked me to publish his haiku submission to CDHK on my blog for the pleasure of fellow bloggers. And so here it is: 🙂

silvery curtain
on a mountain wall-
waterfall

© Adjei Agyei Baah

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
10/07/15

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

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Thursday Tanka: Dazzle

31 Thursday Jul 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga

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Tags

Nature, skies, summer, teasel

The photo is by kind permission of Gilly.

teazles

Dazzle

clear and endless skies

bathe these teasels  in hush light

cerulean dazzle

proclaiming majestic shoot

of a bountiful summer

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(31/07/14)

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

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Thursday Tanka: Summer Splendour

12 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by readinpleasure in Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga

≈ 24 Comments

Tags

Nature, Passion, summer

The photo is by kind permission from Gilly.

daisys

the verdant splendour

of  these hypnotising spread

silenced, I exhale

at nature’s gift to summer

and man’s passion to explore

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 
(12/06/14)

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

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Carpe Diem Haiku: Hototogisu (Little or English Cuckoo)

20 Thursday Jun 2013

Posted by readinpleasure in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

≈ 36 Comments

Tags

cuckoo, Nature, summer

 Cuckoo, prompt on Carpe Diem

Cuckoo

summer breeze

over cuckoo’s nest

new life springs

Cuckoo (2)

in and out of dream

cuckoo’s sonnet loud and clear

good morning my love

 
 
 
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
20/06/13
 

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