24 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Micropoetry, Poetry, Tan Renga
Tags
Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, Ancient Roads, culture, Nature, tradition
Done for Carpe Diem.
We are to complete the following haiku by Adjei Agyei Baah, with our own two lines of 7-7 syllables each.
© Adjei Agyei-Baah
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
Mine
I tread ever so cautious
the souls not to resurrect
Tan Renga
ancient road
the trails of the masters
absorbed in fallen leaves
I tread ever so cautious
the souls not to resurrect
28 Tuesday Jul 2015
Posted in Afriku, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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! Shalom13 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in Afriku, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Fresh
noon day heat
scent of fresh palm-wine
lingering
My dear friend, Adjei Agyei Baah has also submitted his haiku based on the prompt, for publication of my blog whilst he works on getting a blog of his own.
green market
the scent of fresh mushroom
calling
(c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ghana
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 13/07/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom02 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Publication
Tags
Adjei Agyei Baah, Africa, Afriku, culture, grinding stones, Haiku from Africa, pepper soup, Stones, tradition
Done for Carpe Diem.
CDHK features a wonderful haiku poet from , Ghana, Adjei Agyei Baah, co-founder of the Poetry Foundation Ghana. Adjei Baah has “invented” the (as he calls it) Afriku, the haiku from Africa. You can read more about the Afriku here. Below are his “stones”-haiku/afriku which he would like to share at CDHK and upon which we are to base our inspiration: I’m pleased to announce that Adjei Agyei Baah will be appearing here as a Guest soon. Be on the lookout for the interview. 🙂
2
Mine
grinding stone
her ebony hue
faded in pepper soup
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 02/07/15 I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
10 Tuesday Sep 2013
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
September Heights. Day Ten. The Prompt is Kitchen
Kitchen
grinding stone and smoke her lot as African mum she wears it with pride (2) serve me lunch in the heart of your home where love brews Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 10/09/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
27 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Events
My dear friends, as you will recall, I posted a while back about the death of my dear father and the customary one week celebration of the sad event in March. Though he died in November 2012, tradition demands that as a chief, his death is not announced for a while. And so yes, he has been in the morgue all the time, while the family members and myself have been putting things in place.
Finally, the date has dawned, well almost and I’ve been very busy these past days preparing for the event on Friday 1st March. (The one week is celebrated exactly a week to the day of the person’s passing. And so since he died on a Friday, the celebration will be on a Friday.) As such, I’ve not been able to blog and visit other blogs as much as I would have loved to.
I will be traveling tomorrow to my hometown about seven hours away, for the formal announcement and mini-funereal celebrations. Mind you, this is just the preliminary stuff. The real burial ceremony will be at the end of April. I will miss you all; how I wanted to join the Friday Fictioneers this week; the prompt is quite tempting. But I shall be back in time for Weekly Haiku Heights on Monday and more reviews on books I have read 🙂
I am keeping my fingers crossed about getting a few photos of the event to post on the blog. 🙂 Until then, stay blessed my friends, and enjoy the rest of the week and the coming weekend too. 🙂
Shalom 🙂
01 Friday Feb 2013
Posted in Challenges, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers
I’m back again on the Friday Fictioneers bandwagon after a one month break. Sometimes, the workload gets too much and I just lie low. I do miss the FF group. We are just too super to be glossed over. Anyway, this week’s prompt, the first for February is by kind courtesy of Claire Fuller, and as usual Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, is the able and fine captain of the ship. Please, find below my story. (102 words) Feel free to critique and comment. Thank you.
Janus
They say the beginning is like the end, like the two-faced god. I never understood this until Kwamena died.
The priest decreed that a son of the land would die to atone for the sins committed by the princess who eloped with the slave. But why must Kwamena die? Is there no mercy in the breast of the two-faced god?
But the beginning of the end of Kwamena came silently upon me and my dreams yielded a coffin. I did not see it clearly until they brought my son’s body home in a sealed box from the whiteman’s land.
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