Long Rains

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Long Rain

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Long Rains
***** Category: Heaven

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Explanation


Long rains
This is a season in itself in Kenya and other parts of Africa.
It rouhgly lasts from March to May.
It normally accounts for 80 percent of total annual food production in Kenya.

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HAIKU

gray sky all day
spattering sounds on the roofs
umbrellas over heads

Spider Haiku Club,
Lorna Waddington High School
Nairobi, April 2006
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/99


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It has finally started to rain in Kenya in March 2006, after a very long drought.

Here are some haiku from the Bahati Haiku Club members, after the rains finally started !


Lightning
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a striking light
scaring the children
everybody hides

-- Anderson Mwendwa


Thunder
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a bright flash
a lighted plain
a child yells

a scary roar
a bright flash
scared faces

-- Irene Adisa


a scary roar
a blue-white flash
chicken quack

-- Patrick Wafula


Floods
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furious waters
sweeping away people's property
fear on every face

-- Samson Mungai


Wind
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wave blowing
trees fall down
everybody feels it

-- Anderson Mwendwa


Rainbow
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multiple coloured bow
streaking across the sky
in a sunny drizzle

-- Patrick Wafula

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Long Rain in Nairobi
Juhudi Children's Club Haiku, April 2009
The children were aged 7-14.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kenyasaijiki/message/96

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Related words

***** World Kigo Database: Monsoon, India

***** World Kigo Database : Rainy Season (tsuyu) Japan -


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