Steppingstone, stepping stones

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Steppingstone, steppingstones

***** Location: Tropical regions
***** Season: Long rains, short rains
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***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

steppingstones, stepping stones,
step-stone bridge

The stepping stones take different shape and colour.In fact in muddy puddles, a lot of times we step on spounches or other things thinking that we stepp on the stepping stones.....

Caleb David Mutua, Kenya
June 2009

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A step-stone bridge
is a simple means for a pedestrian to cross a watercourse during periods of low flow while keeping feet and (particularly) footwear dry. This type, along with the log bridge are likely the oldest bridge types. Unlike all other bridges, this bridge has no spans. Water is allowed to course between the stones that form the steps. Step-stone bridges are often seen in gardens in China and Japan.
It is one of several principal types found in such gardens. Sometimes one will find these as informal crossings of small streams when hiking, as they are often built by hikers during the drier seasons and are subject to being swept away (or at least disarranged) during periods of high, fast water.
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Worldwide use

Guyana

In Guyana it seems that heavy logs are often used as stepping stones because they are much more available but often wash away with flood on our coast land.

heavy rain
where are the logs outside
going in


The logs (planks) are temporary measures.used mainly at our gates ,on the concrete bridges of our homes or shops etc.,on the path going to our door.usually when we come home we find them washed away during heavy rain and the drains overflow, one maybe in place. we set them again next morning. it is like a game sometime,i think.

no planks
left leading to my door
heavy rain


kenneth daniels (GY)


WKD : South American Saijiki


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Japan

fumi-ishi, tobi-ishi 踏み石, 飛び石
steppingstone, stepping stone
topic for haiku

often a large stone where people leave their shoes before entering a tea room or building.
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They also form a path in a tea garden or temple garden, see below.


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


stepping stones
in a puddle across my path...
the balancing art again


On Sunday I had a very interesting experience with stepping stones; we attended a Sunday Service in Mukuru slums where there are no roads, streets or bridges; only stepping stones link people across the quagmires, morasses and huge puddles. In our company, we had a lady in open shoes who had it very difficult stepping on stepping stone after stepping stone:

stinking morass...
stepping stones the only
bridge across

squelching
of stepping stones...
our weight

one foot in the mud
the other on the stepping stone...
crossing a morass

old concrete blocks
lined across deep stagnant water...
step-stone bridge

Patrick Wafula, Kenya
June 2009


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stepping stones ...
he uses his walking stick
to confirm

gathering rain ..
the distance between the
stepping stones

Caleb David Mutua, Kenya


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a young girl
stuck in a muddy puddle...
slippy stepping stones

stepping stones...
a bullfrog lays for
sunlight

silently clicking
he pulls the bike out...
the stepping stones

Catherine Njeri, Kenya
June 2009


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stepping stones
hidden in the marsh weeds -
hardly noticed

stepping stones
laid across the stream -
an acting bridge

Gideon Gichamba, Kenya

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dry puddle--
sun-baked mud on the
stepping stones

Caleb David Mutua, Kenya


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morning downpour--
an abandoned slipper on
the stepping stones

February downpour--
the lost stepping stones
are revealed

Hussein Haji, February 2010
Kenya Saijiki Forum


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zen temple -
stepping stones leading
to a different life



. Gabi Greve .
Kamakura, Temple Kencho-Ji
Summer 1990


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stepping stones
leading me...
nowhere

Sunil Uniyal, New Delhi, India
June 2009



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Related words

***** Puddle, puddles


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