23 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Afriku, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem. The challenge is to write a troiku based on the haiku below by my very self 🙂
empty calabash
reflecting the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
© Celestine Nudanu
Troiku
empty calabash
reflecting the fading sun
a beggar sits in gloom
empty calabash
no sweetness
in the beggar’s life
reflecting the fading sun
the penny
in his calabash
a beggar sits in gloom
watching the pennies go by
fading sun
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23 Tuesday Jan 2018
Posted in African Women Writers, Awards, Carpe Diem, Challenges, Events, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
Happy New Year to you all. 🙂 It’s taken me so long to write my first post of the year. I guess I was resting my mind but I come with good tidings! Happy to inform you that my troiku was the winning troiku in a Troiku Contest organized by Kristjaan Pannerman, host of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (CDHK) and Michael Smeer of Haiku Pond Academy on Facebook. The contest was to create a Troiku based on the late Jane Reichhold’s haiku below:
golden shade
under the redwoods
evergreen violets
© Jane Reichhold
And to honour my win, Kristjaan has featured me as a special guest on his blog today. Please visit his blog and read all the wonderful things he has written about me. 🙂
Below is my wining troiku based on Jane Reichhold’s:
golden shade
where my pillow rests
a slice of sunlight
under the redwoods
a worm burrows deeper
into itself
evergreen violets
a butterfly seeks rest
on the gravestone
© Celestine Nudanu
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23 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry
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Feel like being a bit worldly and political today. 🙂
Political Roulette
political roulette
the waltz
of trumping leaves
political roulette
a trumpet blows in
a dead leaf
2
the waltz
of falling leaves
waning moon
3
of trumping leaves
an exchange of colours
in harmattan
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 23/11/16 ÂLinks for Haiku Rhapsodies:
16 Wednesday Sep 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem. Another attempt at the Troiku!
Crystal Cobweb
looking closely
in the velvety darkness
 glint of silver web
==
looking closely
a hint of dew
trailing the spider
==
in the velvety darkness
ensnared by your silver threads
that gossamer touch
==
glint of silver web
yet another autumn show
by the spider
15 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem. The idea is to a write a haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as Lio Sogi’s haiku below. Then the challenge is to write a Troiku based on the haiku we produced out of Sogi’s:
Both grasses and trees
waiting for the moon
dewy evening
My attempt
velvet evening
waiting for the moon
we melt into each other
Troiku
velvet evening
we trace the path
of the shooting stars
2
waiting for the moon
we follow the glow
of fireflies
3
we melt into each other
tracing the outline
of crystal dewdrops
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 15/01/15 ÂI appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
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