In the listing below, after each poem the author is listed, and then a three digit code revealing how many 3-point, 2-point, and 1-point points were cast for this poem by the other participating poets.
(214 = 12) would indicate that the poem above received two 3-point votes, one 2-point vote, and four 1-point votes.
January 2004 Kukai Results
Kigo Theme: Winter
1st Place
winter branch
the sparrow's roundness
in the wind
Martin Cohen
387 = 32 pts
2nd Place
winter--
sipping tea
alone
oga
243 = 17 pts
3rd Place
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4th Place
winter storm -
the cat bats a grape around
the living room
Earl Keener
142 = 13 pts
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winter beach . . .
a wave takes back
his name
Kathy Lippard Cobb
126 = 13 pts
5th Place - Tie
winter chill -
my pale shadow
follows my dog
Grzegorz Sionkowski
124 = 11 pts
winter
without a sound
the moon rising
Michael Baribeau
035 = 11 pts
6th Place
winter night
a soft whisper from
my summer love
Carol Raisfeld
123 = 10 pts
7th Place
winter stars
snow flakes swirl past
the masthead light
Darrell Byrd
033 = 9 pts
8th Place
cold winter night ~
between husbands
i push up the thermostat
-roberta beary
023 = 7 pts
winter jacket -
a handful of change
in the pocket
- ushi
015 = 7 pts
9th Place
winter vacation
the shadow of a note
under the professor's door
c. lee robinson
030 = 6 pts
10th Place
winter stars . . .
the burn of below zero
on bare hands
Marjorie Buettner
021 = 5 pts
winter wind
school children breath
into their mittens
Carmel C. Lively
110 = 5 pts
winter mist-
sky and earth
meld into gray
Mary Lee McClure
013 = 5 pts
winter's kiss--
a chilly snowflake
wets chapped lips
Flatline
013 = 5 pts
sparrows huddle
deep inside the evergreen -
winter residence
Angie Kunath
021 = 5 pts
winter wind...
the builders unpack
new doors
Hugh Waterhouse
013 = 5 pts
11th Place
winter
new child warms up
our house
john tiong chunghoo
020 = 4 pts
winter wind -
horses covered with blankets
in front of an inn
Dubravko Marijanovic
012 = 4 pts
winter frost
dawn light reveals
a hundred webs
Sue
004 = 4 pts
Winter bus queue
warming her hands in my coat ...
central heating
acdm
012 = 4 pts
winter dawn --
past the green light
only fog
Nancy Smith
020 = 4 pts
one bad pass
and the season is over--
long winter ahead
-- oino sakai
020 = 4 pts
bitter winter
grandmother's windowpanes
icing over.
Zaida Lysle
101 = 4 pts
12th Place
Free Format Theme: Office
1st Place:
home office
each child's height marked
on the door frame
Carol Raisfeld
196 = 27 pts
2nd Place
morning quiet -
the smell of coffee
in the office
RB
1,3,10 = 19 pts
3rd Place
casual Friday :
the office temp's
purple Mohawk
- ushi
241 = 15 pts
office lunch-break -
a dozen different
screensavers
Richard Goring
055 = 15 pts
4th Place
basement office--
a drawing of a window
full of sun
Marjorie Buettner
232 = 14 pts
office tension --
a fly at the window
keeps buzzing
Zhanna P. Rader
135 = 14 pts
5th Place
office window . . .
the street lights turn on
another night
Darrell Byrd
213 = 11 pts
6th Place
walk to the office -
the streetlights go out
one by one
Horst Ludwig
025 = 9 pts
7th Place
muggy afternoon -
only the fly awake
in his office
Carole MacRury
113 = 8 pts
8th Place
at first light
quiet moments in office
before the day's din
Hazel
112 = 7 pts
new doctor's office
this month's magazines
in the waiting room
Owen Burkhart
015 = 7 pts
psychiatrist's office
not even
one small window
Ed Markowski
015 = 7 pts
9th Place
retirement
shade covers
his office window
w.f. owen
111 = 6 pts
office to office
the line runs between the toes
of resting blackbirds
Mark Hollingsworth
022 = 6 pts
new office--
in someone else's trash
the dead plant
Sue
022 = 6 pts
office bonsai
on the windowsill
cityscape
Allen McGill
022 = 6 pts
still at the office:
kukai entry scribbled
in my Planner
-- oino sakai
014 = 6 pts
10th Place
home office
afternoon sunlight
kisses the desktop
Audrey Downey
102 = 5 pts
blast furnace heat
sparks catch me daydreaming
of an office job
Joshua Gage
102 = 5 pts
night in office --
answering machine says
you should be home
Olga Hooper
102 = 5 pts
office temple
desktop zen garden
with plastic rakes.
Zaida Lysle
110 = 5 pts
11th Place
home office
alphabetizing haiku
of last year
Cornelia
020 = 4 pts
office clock
fifty caring souls
check the batteries
Kylie Hooklyn
020 = 4 pts
the smell of marijuana
drifts through the window --
lawyer's office
Earl Keener
012 = 4 pts