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twilight eve
we’re drifting apart
on kapok
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 26/05/14)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Haiku Horizons: Drift
26 Monday May 2014
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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This would work for the opening of a novel! 🙂
Are you giving me ideas my dear? 🙂
Yeah! 🙂
Another fantastic Haiku
Thank you Al.
You’re welcome Celestine
I also like the way you decorated 😉
Thanks again 🙂
🙂
Well done. Had to look up kapok.
Thank you Kim. 🙂 We use kapok here a lot to stuff our pillows 🙂
Kapok is a tree isn’t it?
Yes, the silk cotton tree! Also known as Ceiba or Java Cotton. 🙂
I had to look up kapok. Interesting.
🙂 Glad to give you another vocabulary!
Falling asleep is just like this… that drifting apart on our pillows. Good one.
Wonderful interpretation, Alice 🙂
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Oh what a lovely place to drift!
Ah, thank you Wabi 🙂
brilliantly done!! loved it 🙂
Thanks Apurva.
Lovely one…
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for introducing me to the Kapok – as I didn’t know what it was.
Wow that it can grow up to 13 feet in one year!
Evidently there are a couple in Tampa, Florida
http://benzplace.com/kapok/history.html
🙂
Lots of the kapok tree abound here in Ghana and we use the kapok as stuffing for pillows, though some also use foam.
The Kapok Tree Restaurant chain made interesting and fascinating read. Thanks Jules 🙂
What part of the kapok is used for stuffing a pillow?
That sounds interesting. One of the trees that fell in my yard lost some of the outer bark and the inner bark was like straw – And straw used to be used for mattresses – so I guess it could be used for filling other things. 🙂
Now I’ll have to go and investigate the kapok further –
Thank you !
Ah, now I see the seed fluff is like cotton.
http://www.whitelotus.net/wholesale-kapok.html
I was actually trying to post a photo of the fluffy cotton here in the comment section for you to see but it didn’t work. Glad you know it now. Another name we have for it here is the silk cotton tree!
I saw that comment about the silk cotton tree and while I cannot connect the image of the difference of the cotton plant and kapok fluff – I found that the cattail fluff also makes a good natural stuffing:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/cattail-plants-zmaz80jazraw.aspx#axzz32vsJC6D6
Interesting 🙂
here in the Caribbean, there is a myth which attest that douens(spirits of unbaptized children who die) dance in the moonlight under silk cotton trees
much love…
Is that so? How fascinating! Thanks Gillena 🙂
Wow! What a learning session for me. We have silk cotton tree in Nigeria but never heard of Kapok. Cute hiaku, Celestine.
They are one and the same, so far as I’m concerned, Stella. 🙂
Great image and I learned slot in your comment stream.
Thank you Audra. 🙂
Just a bit sad.. and brilliant!
Thank you Kathy, as always 🙂
Learnt something new today, Kapok. I too want to drift away to dreamworld on Kapok now….
That would be lovely! 🙂
Interesting write 😉
Thanks Marie.
beautiful drift ,Celetine /and thanks for the new word ”kapok ” / googling for the word and what a treasure !!! silky !
Milan, thanks a million.
welcome Celestine !
wonderful haiku.
I love kapok, the header photo of my blog is our local kapok
Thank you Belinda. 🙂 What a neat idea! 🙂