April 2014 Kukai

Here are the results for the April 2014 Kukai, wherein our Kigo subject was SLOW DAY, and our Free Format subject was ALLUSION

 

Congratulations to ***Dejan Pavlinović***, winner of our Kigo section and to ***S.E. Buffington***, winner of our Free Format section!

Please Note: Voter comments are in dark red italics.  Poet's comments are in blue italics.

Kigo Theme:

SLOW DAY

 

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First Place -  20 Points

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airport delay...

behind the glass window

the same clouds

 

Dejan Pavlinović

Pula, Croatia

(0,4,12) = 20 pts

(P.s. This one is really happening right now :-) One hour delay fight to Venice at Lyon airport.)

 

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Second Place -  19 Points

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slow day

a dragonfly lands

on the bobber

 

Tom Painting

(1,3,10) = 19 pts

 

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Third Place -   18 Points

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slow day . . .

the sun-warmed turtle

starts to move

 

Kirsty Karkow

(1,5,5) = 18 pts

 

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 17 Points

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summer noon —

counting each turn

of a rusted fan

 

Vinay Leo R.

(0,4,9) = 17 pts

 

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 16 Points

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noon stillness...

tracing the rustle of

a young leaf

 

Paresh

(2,4,2) = 16 pts

 

 

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 15 Points

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long twilight . . .

everything

already said

 

Bill Kenney

(1,2,8) = 15 pts

 

 

each hour

longer than the other...

first day of school

 

-Shloka Shankar

Bangalore, India

(0,5,5) = 15 pts

 

 

spring evening

the slow slide of bubbles

to the bathtub drain

 

Beverley George

(0,3,9) = 15 pts

 

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13  Points

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we breathe

one another’s air—

the old pine

 

Sondra J. Byrnes

USA

(1,3,4) = 13 pts

 

 

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  11 Points

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on the way to shrine -

the sound of the bells scatters

cherry petals

 

Ailoaei Cristina

(1,3,2) = 11 pts

 

 

slow day

the old topics

circled

 

Ramesh Anand

Bangalore, India.

(1,1,6) = 11 pts

 

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  10 Points

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checking again --

have the buds blossomed

yet

 

Leslie Montgomery

(1,2,3) = 10 pts

 

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  9 Points

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I too, slug,

am a stranger...

slow day

 

Rita Odeh

Nazareth, Israel

(1,2,2) = 9 pts

 

 

river

yet another

eddy

 

dust

(1,2,2) = 9 pts

 

 

deep in the slow day

an old couple is shining

the empty mailbox

 

Cristian Mocanu

(0,2,5) = 9 pts

 

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  8 Points

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cherry blossoms

the names he starts reading

off the Vietnam Wall

 

carlos gesmundo

(1,2,1) = 8 pts

 

 

slow day

I follow the progress

of a snail

 

Earl Keener

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

 

 

slow day . . .

the lawn sprinklers

wetting the sidewalks

 

Michael McClintock

(0,1,6) = 8 pts

 

 

slow day

watching a cloud face

morph

 

--Diane Mayr

(0,1,6) = 8 pts

 

 

slow day

even the slug

grows longer

 

Angie Werren

Amelia, Ohio

(0,1,6) = 8 pts

**This made me smile -- a great and fitting observation!

 

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  7 Points

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lengthening days…

strains of an evening raga*

in the wind

 

Anitha Varma

India

(0,3,1) = 7 pts

* A raga (literally "beauty, melody"; also spelled raag, raaga, ragam; pronounced rāga, rāg or rāgam) is one of the melodic modes used in Indian Classical Music.

 

tree shadow--

from sidewalk to yard

then everywhere

 

John Holt tori inu

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

 

 

all day rain . . .

a clown paints his face

without a smile

 

Ron C. Moss

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

 

 

dozing

with the Saturday crossword

still raining

 

Ruth Powell

(0,1,5) = 7 pts

 

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 6 Points

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cloudy dawn

dew lingers longer

on lotus leaves

 

Vishnu P Kapoor

Chennai India

(1,1,1) = 6 pts

 

 

dogwood blossoms

unfold

one by one

 

Jone Rush MacCulloch

(1,0,3) = 6 pts

 

 

slow day

my cat and I take turns

napping

 

Jon Espen Vassbotn

(1,0,3) = 6 pts

 

 

strung on a contrail April clouds

 

Alan S. Bridges

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

desert chill…

a turtle turns

around

 

Ted van Zutphen

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

slow day . . .

counting daisy petals

in the rain

 

Bill Pauly

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

Slow day -

calculating the speed

of a garden snail.

 

Zhanna P. Rader

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

turning to Facebook

for the umpteenth time --

slow day

 

~ Isabelle Prondzynski

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

the beach hut’s

peeling blue paint –

slow days

 

Stella Pierides

DE/UK.

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

April showers?

we start another game

of Monopoly

 

Laurene

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

 

 

long day's end

the far island becomes

spring mist

 

Jan O'Loughlin

(Australia)

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

 

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  Points

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5 long day...

the brightest sun discloses

my loneliness

 

Tuvshinzaya Nergui

Tsetserleg city, Mongolia

(1,0,2) = 5 pts

 

 

long afternoon . . .

garden snails weaving

the rain-soaked lawn

 

Catherine J.S. Lee

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

 

one note call

of the saw whet owl

a slow day ends

 

Beth Powell

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

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  4 Points

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afternoon tea

after noon

me

 

helge t.

(1,0,1) = 4 pts

 

 

discussing free will

nothing better to do

than watch the snow melt

 

Ignatius Fay

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

oh, for a slow day---

to sit and watch the sun glide

through blue puff-cloud sky

 

jill

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

** I chose this for a point as I identify well with it. When my children were young/teenage and would complain of boredom, I'd tell them I had too much to do and say, ah, the luxury of being bored.

 

yard clean-up

through the pines a soft breeze

slows my pace

 

Adelaide B. Shaw

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

under slow clouds

she knits and knits

over and over

 

--Aalix Roake

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

cold snap . . .

the days before you come home

from rehab

 

Christine L. Villa

USA

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

November twilight --

Granny tries to recognize

the hand in her hand ...

 

Beate Conrad

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

flowering oxalis

and this indoor gardener

watching it rain

 

maxianne

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

 

 

April morning...

the old cat and I

snore in the sun

 

S.E. Buffington

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

 

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  3 Points

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yes, do tell me yes.

i pace an eternity

in a single day!

 

Robert C. Howard

Belleville IL

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

 

 

armchair by the fire

popcorn, cocoa, cat and book

perfect afternoon

 

Deirdre Godwin

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

** I am glad that more people are using the 5-7-5 form

 

the cherrybloom and the morning

open

simultaneously

 

Oddbjørn Aardalen

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

a shaft of sun--

for the pure joy of it

I pause

 

Gerry Bravi

Canada

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

slow day the Molasses River turns back upon itself

 

Doris

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

early spring...

at the end of long day

willows bud

 

Burenbileg Batsuuri

Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

oh, April sunrays!

waking me up

before the alarm clock

 

Anne Zooey Lind

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

slow day –

the sparrows splash

in the little brook

 

Tomislav

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

 

 

orbit

a ring forms

around my beer

 

S.M. Abeles

USA

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

 

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  2 Points

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kittenless -

the cat's mourning

the longest Sunday

 

Petya Gleridis

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

 

 

what day could be gray

watching a woods

greening

 

Donna Bauerly

Iowa

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

 

 

willing the clock on

in slow-falling dusk

towards end of day

 

Frances O'Keeffe

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

 

 

all day

couple swallows carrying grass

tirelessly...

 

Nadalsuren Purevdorj

Ulaanbaatar.Mongolia

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

 

 

Palm Sunday morning

looks like some drizzle maybe,

maybe even snow

 

Horst Ludwig

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

loitering around

from morning till night

an endless day

 

Keith A. SIMMONDS

Rodez, FRANCE

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

rising sun

across desert sand

turtle's first step

 

Bernard Gieske

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

spring breeze -

turtles arrive to the pond

one by one

 

Israel López Balan

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

spring snow - I shovel

to the birdfeeders

then call it a day

 

Jane DeJonghe

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

seagull sky

at day's end

still no news

 

Anonymous

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

slow day ―

the way home by bike

with the light off

 

Yukiko Yamada

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

** I can feel with this -- a real spring haiku!

 

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  1 Point

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spring clean up

four dead spiders

on my broom stick

 

Purush

Ellicott city MD

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

picnic blanket

the sizzle

of rotating weenies

 

carol pearce-worthington

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

warm spring sunshine . . .

croci blue peeks through

crying ice crystals

 

Eric P

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

spring fever-

endless night with cats outside

serenading

 

Natalia Kuznetsova,

Moscow, Russia

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

spring snow

waiting to stroke blossom dew

on your dimples

 

Karin Anderson

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

easy morning…

melting snow with a

cup of tea

 

D W Skrivseth

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

slow day dawning—

the snail’s egg nursery

just half full

 

Anonymous

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

lazy afternoon

whole dandelion globes

in spite of the breeze

 

Michele L. Harvey

USA

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

ambulance sound… it’s taken

the rest of my life

to get here

 

Anonymous

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

finally at dusk

news of a safe delivery

first grandchild

 

Elaine Riddell

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

dragged

by the rickshaw-puller--

the squeak of a slow day

 

Anonymous

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

slow day

on the narrow road

mating snails

 

cfc

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

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No Points This Time, Sorry.

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slow day

on the muddied path

pink petals at play

 

Barbara A. Taylor

Mountain Top, NSW

Australia

 

 

even on a long day

so little time - so many spring flowers

but barren bachelor’s buttonhole

 

Daniela Bullas

 

 

windrow opens

on the rough young sward

blue-eyed grass

 

assu

 

  

cherry flowers touch-

lying under the tree

till the end of wind

 

Lavana kray

Romania

 

  

slow day no mail

no check in the mail and lunch

is hours away

 

Ginny Hoyle

 

  

waiting for its arrival

the calendar says

today is spring

 

Barbara Campitelli

 

  

rain sounds good

covers pulled up to my chin

sleeping in

 

Tom Conally

 

  

waning moon!

just one whooping crane egg

left ...

 

Svend A. Doggfall

 

  

stinking pile -

changed cloth

of one more slow day

 

Ajaya Mahala

Pune, India

 

  

gooseberry oil -

an afterglow of her love

in all those braids

 

Arvinder Kaur

Chandigarh,India

 

  

Waiting for the postman –

the day is wasting

without result

 

Miorita

 

  

April weekend:

starting at my phone

for an update

 

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan

Mumbai, India

 

  

stand still sun-

the fight of the trapped fly

nearing its end

 

--kashinath karmakar,India

 

  

incessant rain--

to long for the first ray

like the last leaf

 

Yesha Shah

India

 

  

unsold Easter lilies -

all the buyers ensconced

in the church

 

Angelee Deodhar

 

  

the arum lilly spathe...

all day

I watch its shadow grow

 

Samar Ghose

Australia

  

 

tripping over daylight

still on the sidewalk

tulips laughing at me

 

- mechaieh

 

 

 last day of Lent –

waiting for

Easter feast

 

Virginia Popescu

PHOENIX

 

  

war zone--

oh for a customer

to feel the peaches

 

James Dobson.

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Honorable Mention

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quiet bus stop

the surrounding area

litter free

 

Bill Hudson

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General Comments:

 

** lots of great images, but many of these haiku have no kigo reference.

 

 **It's been difficult making the right choice in this section, there were so many brilliant entries! Such a pity that we have only 6 points to give.

  

**Several good haiku this month. I couldn't narrow it beyond six.

 

 **Thank you for continuing this opportunity to write, submit, and vote.

 

 **I liked a lot of these. I had to spread the wealth.

 

**As always thanks--your contest is never a "slow day."

 

 **We are having hot spring weather here, in Autumn! Peach blossom outside my window!!!!

 

 **Thank you for this collection, which was an interesting one. I would have liked to have focused only on the haiku that actually used the kigo, but then relented, as there were not that many, and as there were some other good ones that expressed a sense of slowness.

 

** There were not many haiku that actually mentioned the kigo "slow day".

^^Probably my error. I didn’t require it. (GH)

 

** I wonder why there were so many haiku mentioning turtles -- perhaps a spring kigo in some parts of the USA?

 

**I really enjoyed this exercise!  

 

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Free Format Theme:

ALLUSION

 

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First Place -    20 Points

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Easter brunch...

the toddler orders

green eggs and ham

 

S.E. Buffington

(0,5,10) = 20 pts

**This made me smile! I wonder whether this has happened many times?

 

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Second Place -    18 Points

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Oh, snail, at my age

we should reach the hilltop

together

 

Tomislav

(0,5,8) = 18 pts

**Though I usually prefer haiku without punctuation, this illustrates well how I feel sometimes.

 

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Third Place -   17 Points

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abandoned barn--

one hundred years of solitude

and me

 

sanjuktaa

India

(2,3,5) = 17 pts

 

AND

 

wheelbarrow, chickens--

so much depends upon

the absent rain

 

Ginny Hoyle

(1,3,8) = 17 pts

 

 

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  14 Points

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between tall pines echoes of other voices

 

Barbara A. Taylor

Mountain Top NSW

Australia

(2,2,4) = 14 pts

 

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  13 Points

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grin without a cat…

a sliver of a moon

gets caught in the tree

 

Anitha Varma

India.

(1,1,8) = 13 pts

**Very nice one!

 

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 12 Points

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arlington-

the long shadow

of each white stone

 

Nancy Smith

(0,2,8) = 12 pts

[alluding to one of my two favorite haiku:

 

morning sun-

the long shadows

of little stones

Israel López Balan

Fourth Annual shiki Kukai

First Place]

 

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 11 Points

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long night

my life closed twice

before its close

 

Ramesh Anand

Bangalore, India

(1,3,2) = 11 pts

 

 

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  10 Points

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between the years...

to stop or not to stop

her life support

 

cfc

(0,3,4) = 10 pts

[it alludes to the Shakespeare's to be or not to be.../Hamlet's soliloquy]

 

the “to be”

of the bee…

cactus bloom

 

Ted van Zutphen

(0,2,6) = 10 pts

 

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  9 Points

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prairie flower—

yes i said yes

i am yes

 

Sondra J. Byrnes

USA

(1,2,2) = 9 pts

 

 

first crocus

again I forget

where we live

 

Beth Powell

(0,2,5) = 9 pts

[Allusion to:

 

in this world

we stroll along the roof of hell

gazing at flowers

~Issa]

 

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  8 Points

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passing an empty bench

just a spider and

a bowl

 

Bill Hudson

(1,2,1) = 8 pts

**3pts Brilliant! Love this and wish I'd written it, congrats!

 

autumn twilight

one-two-three crows landing

on the same branch

 

Adelaide

(1,1,3) = 8 pts

 

 

Fuji mountain

seems close for a boy

with new boot...

 

Burenbileg Batsuuri

Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

(1,1,3) = 8 pts

 

 

not seeing

the red of her lips

until that white flesh

 

Alan S. Bridges

(0,3,2) = 8 pts

 

 

debris search

the vastness of each

empty wave

 

Jan O'Loughlin

(Australia)

(0,3,2) = 8 pts

[Allusion to recent news items on the missing plane MH370]

 

e. e. the boy

eating mud-luscious

to see if it is

 

Bill Pauly

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

 

 

apple bite -

reddening

of desires

 

Ajaya Mahala

Pune, India

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

 

 

cruelest month

the white lilacs

under snow

 

Ann K. Schwader

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

[T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”]

 

the garden at dusk —

as good a place as any

for betrayal

 

Shelley Krause

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

 

 

dark cloud--

I wander alone

but for the daffodils

 

James Dobson.

(0,2,4) = 8 pts

 

 

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  7 Points

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winter blues

in my pocket

no petals

 

--Diane Mayr

(1,1,2) = 7 pts

 

splash and silence -

my life

near an old pond

 

Robert Kania

(0,2,3) = 7 pts

 

 

photo album...

Maud's fading youth

before her

 

-Shloka Shankar

Bangalore, India

(0,1,5) = 7 pts

[Note: This haiku alludes to a poem by W. B. Yeats titled, 'When You are Old'.]

 

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 6 Points

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after street riots

burned tires and scattered debris...

time to gather stones

 

Natalia Kuznetsova

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

evening rain . . .

I let my dreams drip

on Pollock's canvas

 

Christine L. Villa, USA

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

 

 

rye field

a withered New Yorker

waits ...

 

S.M. Abeles

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

[J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye]

 

spring dusk;

the teakettle moving from

one hand to next

 

-manoj saranathan

(0,2,2) = 6 pts

[subtly influenced by and alluding to Buson's

 

Lighting one candle

with another candle--

spring evening.]

 

bleached bones

half buried in desert sand

paradise lost

 

Bernard Gieske

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

 

 

the only thing

we have to fear . . .

winter fog

 

Bill Kenney

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

[I don't think you have to be American to catch this allusion. But perhaps you have to be of a certain age (mine, for instance)]

 

it's a plane

it's Superman - no, it's

a bird!

 

Anne Zooey Lind

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

 

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  5 Points

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whiff of pig

scent of roses

... Blandings Castle

 

-- Chitra Rajappa,

Bangalore, India.

(1,0,2) = 5 pts

[This refers to P.G. Wodehouse's entertaining novels about the Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle and his prize pig, the "Empress".

 

I had a lot of fun reading haiku using allusions as a technique. ]

 

 

dozing atop rusty stake clinging to muddy horseshoes Buson butterfly

 

krw

(1,0,2) = 5 pts

 

 

bullet holes

in the classroom Globe-

"e pur si muove"

 

Lavana kray

Romania

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

 

between one haiku

and another

the thesaurus and I

 

Barbara Campitelli

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

 

no one to listen --

everywhere I turn

fallen trees

 

Angie Werren

Amelia, Ohio

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

 

the day moon

so clear in two pools—

ground zero

 

Samar Ghose

Australia

(0,1,3) = 5 pts

 

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4  Points

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at the train station

without the destination board

I am alone...

 

Tuvshinzaya Nergui

Tsetserleg city, Mongolia

(1,0,1) = 4 pts

 

 

gone with the east wind -

catkins from weeping willows

crossing the river

 

Daniela Bullas

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

Out, damn'd spot!

crimson stains each white petal

hibiscus

 

Doris

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

[refers to Lady Macbeth's hand-washing scene]

 

Mother Goose

hissing on her nest

one two three four five

 

Earl Keener

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

without you

a crooked highway

of loneliness

 

Ruth Powell

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

[The allusion is to a Bob Dylan song. I don't remember the name, but the first verse is:

 

If today was not a crooked highway

If tonight was not a crooked trail

If tomorrow wasn't such a long time

lonesome would mean nothing to you at all]

 

his empty chair

as we play poker —

autumn breeze

 

Vinay Leo R.

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

beauty pageant -

between participants

the apple of discord

 

Ailoaei Cristina

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

 

not

looking behind ...

his salt tears

 

dust

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

[Lot’s wife ...]

 

my brain coral paperweight a poor Yorick

 

Scott Mason

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

 

 

harvest moon -

the soft flow of her curls

in the winnowing wind

 

Arvinder Kaur

Chandigarh,India

(0,0,4) = 4 pts

 [Allusion ...Ode To Autumn by John Keats ]

 

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 3 Points

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Half Dome floating in the clouds with the Flying Pope

 

Bruce H. Feingold

Berkeley, CA

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

 

 

soaring up so high

could Daedelus even dream

of Apollo’s flight?

 

Deirdre Godwin

(1,0,0) = 3 pts

**I love the double meaning of Apollo!

 

my favorite frog

slips into the pond...

a long croak

 

Keith A. SIMMONDS

Rodez, FRANCE

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

Je m’appelle Robert.

Although a name means little

It’s what I call me.

 

Robert C. Howard

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

[William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet]

 

shaking

peonies until

all let go

 

D W Skrivseth

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

the sound of crickets

in the bee-loud glade

he plants nine bean-rows

 

Jone Rush MacCulloch

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

[Thinking of Yeats...Innisfree]

 

sunset dying -

an empty beer can

caught by seaweeds

 

dsnake1

(0,1,1) = 3 pts

 

 

maybe

maybe not

choices, choices

 

John Hubbard

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

** Most of us can relate to this!

 [Referring to Hamlet by William Shakespeare]

 

inconstant moon --

the lie in your eyes

you're not telling

 

Michele L. Harvey

USA

(0,0,3) = 3 pts

 

 

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 2 Points

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eleven stars-

bowing down

to me

 

Rita Odeh

Nazareth, Israel

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

[Here is my haiku which alludes to the biblical story of Joseph's dream:0]

 

the last snow melted

northwest from the capital:

my roof-still standing…

 

Cristian Mocanu

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

[Note: the allusion here is to a famous tanka by the monk (some call him Bishop) Henjo (no.8 in “Hyakunin Isshu”)which reads:

 

my lowly hut is

southeast from the Capital

thus I chose to live.

and the world in which I live

they have called “The Mount of Gloom”

 

The house in which I live is indeed situated to the northwest of our country’s capital in a region prone to floods.]

 

sunflower haze -

Jack's and Allen's shadows

along the rails

 

Petya Gleridis

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

[Sunflower Sutra by A. Ginsberg and On the Road by J. Kerouac ]

 

 

Asked her age,

a mute beggar in rags

shows a finger.

 

Anonymous

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

[Allusion to Issa haiku:

 

Asked his age

he holds up one hand -

summer clothes (Issa)]

 

twice divorced

in bed with

women in love

 

Anonymous

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

 

 

Good Friday evening ...

The sun is arching over

troubled water.

 

Beate Conrad

(0,1,0) = 2 pts

[Allusion to P. Simon"s and Art Garfunkel's song "Bridge over Troubled Water" from 1970, which was influenced by the gospel music to which Simon was listening at that time, especially the Swan Silvertones and their song "Mary Don't You Weep". The name of the title track was inspired by the latter's line "I'll be your bridge over deep water, if you trust in my name."]

 

her many problems

some days La Mancha

not so far away

 

Ignatius Fay

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

lost love...

a planet ceases

to be

 

Paresh

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

hope is the thing with

feathers—turning old leaves

spring’s first robin

 

Gerry Bravi

Canada

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

in cloud's dark mist

a perfect petroglyph

of antlered deer

 

Jane DeJonghe

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

 

 

Independence Day . . .

at the twilight’s last gleaming,

the rockets’ red glare

 

Michael McClintock

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

[Lines 2 & 3 from “Star-Spangled Banner”, lyrics by Francis Scott Key]

Couldn’t resist the obviousness of this one . . . which many of us witness, just like this, each July 4th evening in public parks across the country . . .]

 

Eng. lit. exam:

April is the

cruelest month

 

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan

Mumbai, India

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

[Alluding to Eliot's poem The Waste Land]

 

being in a hurry

the thief took on his back

a spider’s web

 

Virginia Popescu

PHOENIX

(0,0,2) = 2 pts

[My poem is an allusion of RYÔKAN's famous haiku :

 

"the thief

left it behind

the moon at the window "]

 

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  1 Point

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the dust...

cowboys driving cattle

through purple sage

 

Kirsty Karkow

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

[-- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey]]

 

out of the dank earth

up through last year's leaves--

purple crocus

 

jill

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

 

 

a familiar walk

with Ezra

"make it new"

 

Donna Bauerly

Iowa

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

[Ezra Pound, of course, well known for Des Imagiste and, purportedly, writer of one of the first English haiku-like lines:

In a Station of the Metro

THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.]

 

fidelity--

between us, no lies and

no questions

 

Yesha Shah

India

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

[“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations]

 

your sudden death today

unnoticed by the busy city-

everyone going on as before

 

Leslie Montgomery

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

[attempting allusion to W.H. Auden's wonderful poem in which he remarks on the painting of Icarus' fall by Breughel in the last verse -from "Musee des Beaux Arts"

  

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.]

 

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No Points This Time, Sorry.

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last hand clasp

your plane flies into

foggy skies

 

Anonymous

[Alludes to:

Matsuo Basho tr. Lucien Stryk

 

Friends part

forever – wild geese

lost in cloud.]

 

alluding dreams

her sweetest smiles

making a march past

 

Purush

 

  

rapt

in The Awakening

writers’ retreat

 

Tom Painting

 

  

"Sure great likeness, Mike,"

says Dave. "Me, too, - all I need

is the proper stone."

 

Horst

 

  

in my garden

beautiful daffodils

yellow as the sun

 

Tom Conally

 

  

can cruelty ever end

turns into stone

The Thinker *

 

Vishnu P Kapoor

Chennai India

 [Rodin's sculpture]

 

opposite ends

of this star-flung poem

a mule ate them

 

assu

 [Foundation trilogy, Isaac Asimov]

 

air stock still

yet the elm leaves shudder

is Freddy near?

 

maxianne

 

  

daffodils puckering up

tell me that you love me

junie moon

 

carol pearce-worthington

 

 

 along my fence-line

squirrels are not gathering nuts . . .

spring has sprung

 

Eric P

 

  

flowers bright

flowers fading quickly

autumn holds both

 

Anonymous

 [allusion to Shakespeare speech “ to be or not to be....”]

 

noisy guests

oblivious of the white chrysanthemum-

chatter on and on

 

Angelee Deodhar

 [allusion to this haiku:

 

they spoke no word,

the host, the guest

and the white chrysanthemum

 

- Oshima Ryota]

 

early dandelions

brightly hint at

summer days to come

 

Frances O'Keeffe

 

  

peony buds –

kissing under the Bridge

of Sighs

 

Stella Pierides

DE/UK

 

  

sandstorm-

the lizard-colored sky

whirls at me

 

Nadalsuren Purevdorj

Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia

 

  

homebrew

under

the cuckoo's nest

 

Jon Espen Vassbotn

 [Ken Kesey]

 

happy hour—

he introduces himself

a thief of love

 

Anonymous

 [Shakespeare]

 

o wild west wind

autumn leaves fall

a branch at a time

 

Elaine Riddell

 [Allusion to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’]

 

implacable math

has bereaved me of reason

the fall so steep

 

- mechaieh

 [allusion to A. C. Doyle, "The Final Problem"]

 

single

in glens, who's there

who's there who's there

 

Iris 

 

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General Comments:

 

**Thanks a million.

 

**Thanks for organising such a wonderful kukai !

 

**A great topic for haiku. Without authors' notes, it was often hard to know what was being alluded to.

^^I thought it would be confusing to include all of the allusion comments with the voting list (GH)

 

**Allusion has been very hard to vote for. But thank you very much for the opportunity.

 

**So many delightful allusions ..

^^I enjoyed them too (GH)

 

**Wish I had known every allusion. :) Cheshire Cat, for sure! Thanks, as always, to all.

 

**This one was difficult, as I did not get many of the allusions... And yet, there are sufficient haiku below to distribute my votes.

 

** This one was difficult, as I did not get many of the allusions... And yet, there were sufficient haiku I enjoyed to distribute my votes.

 

**Slim pickings this month