Congratulations to RaV , the winner of our Kigo section and to Marie Summers, winner of our Free Format section!
August 2006 Results
Kigo Theme:
Summer's End
First Place -- 27 pts
summer's end
the pale circle
on the ring finger
RaV
(2,3,15) = 27 points
Second Place – 25 pts
summer's end--
the swimming hole
fills with stars
aom (tim)
(1,6,10) = 25 pts
* very fine
Third Place – 24 pts
your coat
on my shoulders-
summer's end
Ana Cadarin
(1,6,9) = 24 pts
Fourth Place – 22 pts
one color left
in the Popsicle box
summer's end
Collin Barber
(2,4,8) = 22 pts
Fifth Place – 21 pts
summer’s end,
a longer pause
between crickets
jblain
(1,6,6) = 21 pts
Sixth Place - 13 pts
an empty pouch of Red Man
on the dugout steps...
summer's end
ed markowski
(1,4,2) = 13 pts
she dyes
her graying hair...
summer's end
Polona
(1,3,4) = 13 pts
Seventh Place – 12 pts
summer’s end--
one firefly in a world
of crickets
Ami
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
* I like it; there's a Zen feel to it yet I can believe it as a real event.
leaf
in the mailbox-
summer's end?
Dana-Maria Onica
(2,0,6) = 12 pts
* The question mark at the end turns this into a story of someone noticing the passage of time when he/she might otherwise have overlooked the moment.
summer's end --
the hollyhocks
lean south
- CR Manley
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
Eighth Place – 11 pts
summer's end
his goodnight kiss
softer than usual
Marie Summers
(1,3,2) = 11 pts
summer's end -
the empty lemonade stand
on the bicycle trail
Audrey Downey
(0,3,5) = 11 pts
summer's end
brushing the sand
off everything
Beverley George
(0,1,9) = 11 pts
Ninth Place – 10 pts
summers end
the mama cat shakes
off her kittens
Carmel Lively Westerman
(0,2,6) = 10 pts
Tenth Place – 9 pts
onions turned
upside down to dry
summer's end
-- ushi
(1,2,2) = 9 pts
* This is a great fit with the kigo because it's the right time to do it.
summer's end
the beetle's legs point
to the sky
martin
(1,0,6) = 9 pts
summer’s end:
moon and cicadas
at full volume
Linda Marucci
(0,3,3) = 9 pts
summer's end
papa moves the woodpile
closer to the house
Karen Briggs
(0,1,7) = 9 pts
Eleventh Place – 8 pts
yellow jacket, wasps
on the brink of summer’s end
at the last supper
DANIELA Bullas
(2,1,0) = 8 pts
summer's end
Judas maples
have already turned
smzang
(1,1,3) = 8 pts
deleting
his email
... summer's end
-Roberta Beary
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
summer's end
he wipes the mustard
from my chin
Francine Banwarth
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
summer's end
the teenage checkout clerk
calls me Ma'am
Eve Luckring
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
summer's end
ripe blackberries
amongst the thorns
Meredith
(0,1,6) = 8 pts
* I like the phrase 'amongst the thorns.'
Twelfth Place - 7 pts
summer's end
the heart monitor
f l a t l i n e s
Dustin Neal
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
breeze entangled
in curtain folds
summer's end
Boris Nazansky
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
summer's end-
grains of sand still
in my shoes
Barbara Campitelli
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
Thirteenth Place – 6 pts
summer's end
the shoeshine man polishes
a teacher's grammar
Darrell Lindsey
(1,1,1) = 6 pts
summer's end
the love bite on her neck
begins to fade
paul conneally
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
summer's end
the coolness of a grape
on my tongue
--baldhead
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
A bee wobbles
on the pecan pie -
summer's end.
m scarpone
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
the gecko
turns another color -
summer's end
Betty Kaplan
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
peach juice
from chin to sink
summer's end
Ann K. Schwader
(0,0,6) = 6 pts
* Been there; dripped that! LOL!
Fourteenth Place – 5 pts
ice cream lid slides
off the counter--
summer's end
island girl
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
summer's end—
I struggle with the fifth verse
of a spring renga
Cristian Mocanu
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
summer’s end
he stubs out a cigarette
against a wet brick
Laura Orabone
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
summer's end
last turn at bat --
no one hears his mother call
Karen Cesar
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
orange butterfly
just beyond my reach...
summer's end
Mary King
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
first grader takes to bed
her new lunch box
- almost summer's end
Leslie Montgomery
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
Fifteenth Place – 4 pts
summer’s end -
some leaves fall
before others
Israel Lopez Balan
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
summer's end
at the beach -
our sandy goodbye kiss
Richmond Williams
(0,2,0) = 4 pts
summer’s end
the chrysanthemum blooms
with abandon.
Zaida Lysle
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
first taste
of the apple
summer's end
Bill Kenney
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
summer's end
falling leaves replace
butterflies
Warren Gossett
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
summer's end . . .
the morning newspaper
twined in mist
--Michael McClintock
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
freckles
or age spots?
summer's end
--Irene Golas
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
summer’s end
leaves gather around
sidewalk tables
soji
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
Sixteenth Place – 3 pts
summer's end--
flowers letting go
occupiers' hand tightens
Janet Brof
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
Summer's end
The turtle patiently waits
To cross a road home
Linda Warner
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
with shovels and rakes
we fight off summer's ending--
sandcastle fortress
Prune
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
summer's end--
relentless cicadas
fall silent at last
Tristan Coleridge
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
summer's end
our neighbours start hanging
their christmas lights
Jim Swift
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
beach finds
gathered on a shelf
summer's end
Beth Powell
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
* I really like how this connects the summer's pleasures with the passage of time and so the end of the season
Free Format Theme:
Mud
First Place -- 21 pts
full moon
she answers the door
in a mud mask
Marie Summers
(3,2,8) = 21 pts
Second Place -- 20 pts
monsoon …
rising from the mud
a buffalo’s horns
Ella Wagemakers
(1,4,9) = 20 pts
Third Place -- 18 pts
daddy’s knees
jolt the table
--mud pies and tea
doris kasson
(2,3,6) = 18 pts
egret in flight—
she forgets
her muddy shoe
Karen Cesar
(1,4,7) = 18 pts
Fourth Place -- 16 pts
yellow moon rising
even the mud
shines
Francine Banwarth
(2,2,6) = 16 pts
muddy river—
a carp swimming
in place
Ami
(1,2,9) = 16 pts
Fifth Place – 15 pts
mud puddles
snowflakes sink
into their reflections
Collin Barber
(1,3,6) = 15 pts
* lovely image
the utter silence
of the Milky Way
squelch of mud
RaV
(1,3,6) = 15 pts
Sixth Place – 14 pts
healing mud
we look as if God
has just made us
Petar Tchouhov
(3,1,3) = 14 pts
a sandal in the mud
my toes remember
childhood
jblain
(1,4,3) = 14 pts
summer heat
the buffalo moos
in the mud
john tiong chunghoo
(0,3,8) = 14 pts
Seventh Place -- 12 pts
news of war—
a child’s toy plane
belly-up in the mud
ron moss
(1,2,5) = 12 pts
kindergarten
new boots jump
the mud puddles
Carmel Lively Westerman
(1,1,7) = 12 pts
Eighth Place – 11 pts
mud flecked feet
we dance around
the argument
Roberta Beary
(1,2,4) = 11 pts
tea and mud pies
the child scolds me
for using the wrong fork
Kathy Lippard Cobb
(1,0,8) = 11 pts
rainy season –
a muddied welcome
on the doormat
max verhart
(0,1,9) = 11 pts
Ninth Place – 9 pts
mud season
the cow elk’s tracks
deeper
Ann K. Schwader
(1,2,2) = 9 pts
autumn sunlight
a gull’s feet deep
in the mud flats
Bruce Ross
(0,4,1) = 9 pts
tide’s out . . .
a feeding frenzy
on the mud flats
Carole MacRury
(0,3,3) = 9 pts
tea party --
serving mud pies
on yellow leaves
Betty Kaplan
(0,1,7) = 9 pts
Tenth Place – 8 pts
mud bath—
geese wading in
the prison pond
island girl
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
the sound of a boot
lifted from mud -
a lusty kiss
Simply Maire
(0,1,6) = 8 pts
Eleventh Place -– 7 pts
through mud roads
a jostling bus ride --
smell of sweat
Kala Ramesh
(0,3,1) = 7 pts
ground-breaking
the politician poses
with a shovelful of mud
ed markowski
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
tiny world
a snail's trail
in the mud
Beth Powell
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
Twelfth Place -- 6 pts
on the way home--
loyal companion
the mud
Ana Cadarin
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
Thirteenth Place -- 5 pts
August cattails
the mud dries in the boat
martin (1,1,0) = 5 pts
bridge in smithereens--
under the mud and rubble
his daughter's torso
Janet Brof
(1,1,0) = 5 pts
in the mud bath
she is still naked
beautiful like a lotus
Leslie Montgomery
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
mud shore of the brook --
a man's and a bird's footprints
follow each other
Zhanna P. Rader
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
muddy road
the woman's blood
darkens
Dustin Neal
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
mud on my hands
I ask for a trowel
she hands me a towel
Linda Marucci
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
a streak of mud
up the boy's back
fenderless bike
Vaughn Seward
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
morning walk --
footprints in the mud
disappear into the mist
Israel López Balan
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
half moon --
the muddied knees
of the jilted lover
Paul Hodder
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
turning wheel --
mud shapes to the curves
of the potter
Nancy Smith
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
after Katrina--
grandmother clutches
mud-caked heirlooms
Tristan Coleridge
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
Fourteenth Place -- 4 pts
busy hands firmly
kneading mud, preparing bricks--
black smoke form the kiln
Patrick Wafula
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
mud room cleared--
her old raveled sweater
left on its peg
Ellen Compton
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
to lotus mud is not mud
miriam chaikin
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
mud fight
the opposition
plays dirty
Bill Hudson
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
horse race
a clump of mud
in the air
Dave Bacharach
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
yellow card!
the referee's glasses
covered in mud
-- lucindab
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
Fifteenth Place -- 3 pts
starting a new life --
with Crystal Dead Sea Mud Soap
cleaner and clearer
DANIELA Bullas
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
laughing and splashing
up to their ankles in mud --
a group of toddlers
Ruzica Mokos
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
coyote tracks
down the muddy road--
who's following whom
Rap
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
mud by the marsh --
some small bird's track
in a big claw print
D.V.Rozic
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
mudfest--
mom asks
if the concert was worth it
aom (tim)
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
mud wasp nest
I move my tent
upstream
Karen Briggs
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
bee sting...
mixing mud
shanna
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
3:00 am
fumbling with keys
my name is mud
Denise Lizarraga
(0,0,3) = 3 pts