Wood

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Wood

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

This includes many kinds of wood, also firewood.
also lumber, timber etc.


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Kenyan wood articles

Kamba woodcarvers are famous for their intricate designs.
In Kenya, wood carving provides livelihoods for 60000 people.


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Worldwide use

Japan

mokuzai, kizai もくざい【木材】 wood
(as material for construction etc.)


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

The following haiku were written for the
Shiki Monthly Kukai, June 2009


late night --
a house girl wipes the stained
wooden table

~ Andrew Otinga


May rain --
swollen wood floats down
the flooded river

~ Hussein Haji


the walking stick
her only old-age companion...
my blind grandmother

~Patrick Wafula


wooden frame --
a beetle struggles
to find a dwelling place

~ Maurice Peacock


old father
on a wooden chair --
basking on the sun

~ Kisilu Peacock


two lovers chatting
on a wooden garden bench --
breezy sunset

~ Anne Wairimu


rainy afternoon --
village girls fetch wood
to light a fire

~ Dennis Ongaki


fire blaze --
wood engulfed in sparks
and protest

~ Aineah Peacock


cold night --
a watchman guarding the house
with a wooden club

~ Khadijah Rajab


whispering wind --
she burns wood on hearth stones
to keep warm

~ Beryl Achieng


mercilessly beating
a thief with bamboo sticks --
mob justice

~ Kelvin Wekesa

a dog barks
angrily and jumps
a wooden fence

~ Barrack Elung'ata


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smell of wood ...
the new chopping board
still dreaming

Gabi Greve, 2008



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Related words

***** Trees as haiku topics ... ... and kigo with trees


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