Coconut Tree

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Coconut Tree and Coconuts

***** Location: India
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


Some of the basic information of the WKD about Coconuts and Haiku is found here.

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I come from Keralam.
The land of "kera vriksham" [ coconut trees ]


"The widely disputed etymology of Kerala is a matter of conjecture. In the revailing theory, Kerala is an imperfect Malayalam portmanteau that fuses kera ("coconut palm tree") and alam ("land" or "location"). Another theory is that the name originated from the phrase chera alam ("Land of the Chera"). Natives of Kerala, known as Keralites or Malayalees, thus refer to their land as Keralam."
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA : Kerala !

Narayanan Raghunathan

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External Reference: COCONUTS in INDIA


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Worldwide use

Philippines

Coconuts and Haiku


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

coconut trees
and slow fishing boats -
my view of paradise



©　Gabi Greve, Goa 1979


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coconut trees
and dry long leaves —
my view of a brunette

Kumarendra Mallick, Hyderabad,India, 2008


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the coconut tree -
with fruits so far
and no shade below

Note: The coconut tree grows to a great height, but to the weary traveller it doesn't provide shade under the sun and its fruit can only be reached with great difficulty. This is what this haiku seeks to convey.

Sunil Uniyal, India, 2008

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exam time-
the coconut vendor stocks more
near the temple


exam time-
more urchings at the temple
for the broken coconut bits

A.Thiagarajan, India 2008


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spring walk through
the farm ~ a coconut
just misses my head


a hundred coconuts
for Ganesha ~ temple
bells and fragrances


Note ~ Cracking coconuts for Ganapathy is a Ritual practised in India in most of the Ganapathy temples.
The coconut represents a cosmos and here we symbolically shatter a bad cosmos into extinction to create a new blessed cosmos!


a thousand coconuts ~
not two identical ones

Narayanan Raghunathan, India, April 2008



a woodpecker
pecks up
the coconut tree

Narayanan Raghunathan,
India, September 2006
...happyhaiku.blogspot.com


The following LINKS show coconut trees and Keralam.



http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/photohaiku/view/475

http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/photohaiku/view/476

http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/photohaiku/view/479

http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/photohaiku/view/477

http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/photohaiku/view/476

Narayanan Raghunathan


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Related words

***** Ganesh Chaturthi Festival


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THE INDIA SAIJIKI

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