Vegetables Impact the Senses
John
Daleiden's Choice "vegetable" Haiku
Thirty-three poets from eleven countries have
contributed one hundred-seventy-two Haiku to the July / August 31, 2012-43
"vegetable(s)" Haiku Thread. Biologically, a vegetable is an edible
plant or part of a plant, usually excluding seeds and most sweet fruit.
This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant. However, a
non-biological definition of a vegetable is largely based onculinary and cultural tradition.
Therefore, the application of the word vegetable is somewhat
arbitrary, based on cultural and/or personal views. In this Haiku Thread there
are many seed crops and fruits in the botanical sense, that are used
as vegetables.
One of the most important qualities of a
vegetable is "freshness", a trait Pravat Padhy associates with his
mother's "smiles" in a unique juxtaposition:
green vegetables
my mother smiles with
morning freshness
# 18. Pravat
Padhy's association of the images of
"vegetables" and a "mother's smiles" suggests nurturing--an
important role in the life of all developing flora on earth.
Publication
Credit: Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms, Vol. 7,
No.4, Issue 43, 2012
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