Congratulations to *** BILL HUDSON ***, winner of our Kigo section and to ***TOM PAINTING ***, winner of our Free Format section!
VOTERS' Comments are indicated by ** below the respective poems.
POETS' Comments are indicated by ^^ below the respective poems.
Kigo Theme:
EMERGING INSECTS
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First Place - 36 Points
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first cricket
I slow my pace
to listen
Bill Hudson
(2,9,12) = 36 pts
**A fine haiku, making me feel warm appreciation for the "I" person in the poem, presumably the haijin. Thank you!
**Loved how this first cricket stayed with me as I read through all the others
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Second Place - 23 Points
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empty chrysalis –
I always knew
about her wings
Eduard TARA
(4,3,5) = 23 pts
AND
down time . . .
a caterpillar
changes direction
BILL KENNEY
(1,5,10) = 23 pts
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Third Place - 21 Points
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mating firebugs -
a little girl hides
her polished nails
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu
(2,5,5) = 21 pts
AND
white moth
the quiet
I continue to seek
Dawn Apanius
(1,5,8) = 21 pts
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Fourth Place - 19 Points
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mayflies --
fishermen's lines
flick the stream
Michele L. Harvey
USA
(1,5,6) = 19 pts
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Fifth Place - 15 Points
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empty shell
no longer contains
the cicada’s sound
RD McManes
(1,4,4) = 15 pts
spring mosquito . . .
my blood, your blood
mingling
Bill Pauly
(Dubuque, IA USA)
(0,5,5) = 15 pts
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Sixth Place - 14 Points
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mist
lightening
gnat by gnat
sanjuktaa
(2,1,6) = 14 pts
summer drought
the ground cracks open
with cricket song
Elaine Riddell
(1,2,7) = 14 pts
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Seventh Place - 13 Points
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anniversary -
on my mother's urn lands
a mourning cloak
Cezar-F. Ciobîcă
(2,3,1) = 13 pts
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Eighth Place - 12 Points
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sunset -
a dragonfly over
the dried pond
Andronic Andra
(0,4,4) = 12 pts
chrysalis
ready to shed
this too-tight life
Lauren Mayhew
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
**Lots of chrysalis-themed 'ku in these entries... to me, this one was the most physical, the most present
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Ninth Place - 11 Points
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born today
only for today --
floating butterfly
Michael McClintock
(0,4,3) = 11 pts
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Tenth Place - 10 Points
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spring garden
the child's eyes flit
from flower to flower
Gautam Nadkarni
(1,1,5) = 10 pts
opening up
the garden shed
-- young spiders
Ruth Powell
(0,3,4) = 10 pts
**Love the energy of this haiku... the sense of busy preparation, in contrast with the sense of spiderwebs marking human disuse
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11th Place - 9 Points
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spring breeze-
a few bees swarming again
around the hive
Ailoaei Cristina
(0,3,3) = 9 pts
early spring
a peacock butterfly
in full bloom
Ella Wagemakers
(0,2,5) = 9 pts
light of dawn
from the pink depth of lotus
a bumble bee
Vishnu P Kapoor
(0,1,7) = 9 pts
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12th Place - 8 Points
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butterflies
among garden blossoms—
the gardener prunes
John Daleiden, Phoenix, Arizona (US) in the Sonoran Desert.
(1,2,1) = 8 pts
bare legs
how gentle
ticks' landing
Doris Lynch
(1,1,3) = 8 pts
barely spring
the cat playing
with a dead fly's carcass
Stevie Strang
(1,1,3) = 8 pts
sun-warm cabin
together we wash our face
housefly and I
Harvey Jenkins
(1,0,5) = 8 pts
day of silence
the first bumblebee
dies trying
Johannes S. H. Bjerg
(0,1,6) = 8 pts
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13th Place - 7 Points
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trout riffle ...
sharing the Spring air
with the mayflies
Kat Creighton
(1,1,2) = 7 pts
a white moth
surrenders
to the mountain
Bill Gottlieb
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
welcome, ladybugs!
are any of you
sirs?
Donna Bauerly
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
**Made me smile.
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14th Place - 6 Points
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the way he enjoys
doing what I ask him not to
first kitchen ant
Seren Fargo
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
lazy afternoon
fruit flies hover
above the plums
Cara Holman
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
picnic for one -
the gentle question
of a moth's touch
Sandi Pray
Robbinsville, NC
USA
(0,0,6) = 6 pts
**A quiet moment, richly captured.
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15th Place - 5 Points
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a box elder bug
in my bedside water glass
still swims this morning
Zeyda
(1,1,0) = 5 pts
ants in the bathroom
neighbors in their yards --
signs of spring
Shelley Krause
(1,1,0) = 5 pts
first mosquito bite -
he takes the old tortoise
from the fridge
-Ramona-
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
first spring ants
make me happy today-
how easy life is
Tuvshinzaya Nergui
Tsetserleg city, Mongolia
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
at bedtime
I pull back the sheet—
a tiny spider
Marylouise Knight
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
Blackberry Winter
orange ladybugs
dotting the Camellias
Rose Marie Stutts, EdD
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
^^Camellias are winter blooming shrubs in the American South
^^A Blackberry winter is the last period of 'cold snap' before warm weather. The cold is needed for blackberry vines to produce fruit.
wrinkled sky…
on tinder legs
the spider I knew
Alegria Imperial
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
gossiping neighbours
a brimstone flits between
mounds of dirty snow
polona
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
^^common brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni, one of the first butterflies to awake from its hibernation
temple bell...
a butterfly flies away
out of my belly
Lech Szeglowski
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
a lifetime
of crawling
butterfly
Gregory Longenecker
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
marina
sticky with shadflies
the boys chase the girls
maxianne
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
nymph
leaving her larval shell
young bride
Stella Pierides
DE/UK
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
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16th Place - 4 Points
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emerging leaves -
green aphides preparing
the spring offensive
STOPS
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
After snow
circles in ice water
a hum in my ear
Yoshitaka
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
samurai sword handle:
the reach of the blade carries
a gold hornet's spirit
Sheila K. Barksdale
(0,2,0) = 4 pts
**The elaborate imagery does indeed seem to work. I feel the realness of that sword and its engraving. A surprising effort, testing boundaries.
cicada song in March
tinnitus
assu
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
**I can relate to this!
a wasp emerges
from the jam jar . . .
the sound red
Ron C. Moss
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
out of ootheca
my memoir title too
praying mantis
Kath Abela Wilson
Pasadena, CA USA
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
^^ootheca = egg case
old elm tree –
a ladybug
flies from the labyrinth
Virginia Popescu
PHOENIX
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
dark clump
of box elder bugs --
the melting snow
Gene Doty
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
alone in the park
I think of my father –
look a cricket
Miorita
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
chrysalis...
we learn of the monarch's
humble roots
S.E. Buffington
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
empty cocoon-
the sky starts at
those wings
Rita Odeh
Nazareth, Israel
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
spring -
each day
more ants in the kitchen
deanna tiefenthal
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
still ice on the sill
a fly finds its legs
moving up the glass
LeRoy Gorman
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
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17th Place - 3 Points
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blackbirds
their beaks flashing -
emerging insects ambushed
JOHN McDONALD
EDINBURGH SCOTLAND
(1,0,0) = 3 pts
march window
an ant in the soup
martin gottlieb cohen
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
out from the book sale
into winter air
“an obsession with butterflies”
jill
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
mayfly hatch
in the feeding frenzy
his fly fools one small trout
Edward
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
awakened a beetle travels across its winter haven
D W Skrivseth
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
desert sand hill::
a horned toad sucks up
springtime ants
Darrell Byrd
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
cat transfixed...
wrigglers in a bucket
of standing water
Diane Mayr
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
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18th Place - 2 Points
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spring clean-up
ants come to light
from deadwood
Tom Painting
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
gertrude--
emerging crane flies too
alas
Barbara Snow
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
silent drone…
a cicada climbs
the tree
Ted van Zutphen
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
Chrysalis bursting
Delicate wings unfolding
New life beginning
Tanja Cilia
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
melting snow --
a yellow jacket surprise
in the shopping cart
Angie Werren
Amelia, Ohio
USA
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
A caterpillar
swaying upon a green leaf
soon the miracle
Keith A. Simmonds
T & T
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
sakura stump
covered with caterpillars
a year late
Anonymous
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
first appearance -
glamorous in the spring sun
a ladybug
natalia kuznetsova
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
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19th Place - 1 Point
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out in the sun
a pupa crawls
out of the water
Ernesto P. Santiago
Philippines
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
sweat rings
under cold drinks—
monarch chrysalis
if
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
thumb-sized moths
drift toward the plum tree --
I put away my sweaters
mechaieh
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lingering heat
a spiral of termites
aims at azure
Barbara A Taylor
Australia
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
summer meditation
centers upon emergence
of mosquito buzz
Ramesh Anand
India
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
a teenager exercises
in her neon lycra
- gadfly
Anonymous
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
fallen apple -
a line of ants going
up and down
Israel López Balan
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
under melting snow
ants awake in their nest-
murmur
Nadalsuren
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Window pane
fruit fly wanting out -
we whisper.
Trevor Camp
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
spring melt -
from the backyard pool
first mosquitos
Mike Montreuil
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
ah, first fly
this year, too
kitty
gogatsu
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Waiting for Spring
The butterfly in the cocoon
Wrapped up tight
Angelika Kolompar
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
she admires
her grocery store ivy
surprised by aphids
Andromeda Jazmon
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
"deep sparkle pupa"
the rainbow trout
deceived
Beth Powell
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
frost in March -
just awakened falls heroic
the first house fly
Petru-Ioan Garda
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
one-day flies--
there's dancing
everywhere
James Dobson.
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Easter Sunday
a woolly bear crosses
the sidewalk
Carolyn Coit Dancy
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
a sumo wrestler is training -
moves its wings
a sleeping butterfly
Robert Kania
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
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No Points but Thank You
For Sharing Your Haiku
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wild horses -
ladybug's first fly
is also her last one
Lavana Kray
Romania
market basket-
earwigs drop to the counter
as I chop fresh greens
--Kirsty Karkow
bacteria in many fruits.
emerging insects in
Freshwater and Wetlands too
purush, guntur
two ants
one crumb
who's in charge?
Ginny Hoyle
date on a glade
the stripling's gaze focused on
two grasshoppers
Irena Szewczyk
(Warsaw, Poland)
winter's sting past
spring's stingers emerge
pollen hunters
poseytoon
a fly on soup ...
mute boy weeping
Reza-semnan
snow retreats
the ants disappear
from the kitchen
- ru,
canada
humming bees
are the spring or you
coming too late
Oddbjørn Aardalen
busy scurrying ants
on the yard wall
lengthening days
Frances O'Keeffe
new-born dragonfly
fragile wings dry in the sun
mosquitoes beware
Deirdre Godwin
early ants scurry
in a patch of warm sun
on a log downed in snow
Jane DeJonghe
Mayfly rising
trout breakfast...
short life
Tom Conally
insects emerging
pictografy tree
and spring larvae
Jacek Kielich
busy bumblebee
forsythia butterfly
spring's color match
Bernard Gieske
emerging insects
escaping from old man's
forlorn garden
Juhani Tikkanen
waiting for news -
a few ladybugs settle on
a leaf with aphids
Seby Lucacs
wet wings glistening
on a pond log
a stream of tears
Jone Rush MacCulloch
struggling to escape
his pupa squeezes water
out so he can fly
gourdman
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General Comments:
**For the first time ever, I was unable to use all 6 points in either category.
**Hard to choose on this one, so many interesting creepy crawlers. I didn't have enough 2's to go around.
**A great many good haiku in this batch! Again, it was a challenge to vote. Thanks for the opportunity to do so.
**I found both categories a challenge and am amazed as well as impressed by the haiku the poets produced.
**I love this opportunity to read everyone's take on the prompt...and the mystery of not knowing the author of the haiku I’m voting for.
**…hard to imagine insects emerging when I've just shoveled another foot of snow off the driveway at -10 degrees C!
Free Format Theme:
SKY COLORS
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First Place - 21 Points
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art therapy
rendering the sky
different blues
Tom Painting
(0,5,11) = 21 pts
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Second Place - 20 Points
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evensong
the sheep on the field
turn red
Johannes S. H. Bjerg
(1,4,9) = 20 pts
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Third Place - 19 Points
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out of the blue
a day moon spills
into my cup
Ted van Zutphen
(1,5,6) = 19 pts
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Fourth Place - 18 Points
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window seat
chasing pink clouds
for miles
Doris Lynch
(2,2,8) = 18 pts
**Love the sheer happiness of this observation!
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Fifth Place - 15 Points
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rainbow-
my child
counts her crayons.
dsnake1
(0,4,7) = 15 pts
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Sixth Place - 14 Points
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morning stillness . . .
fishing net thrown on
the colours of sky
Ramesh Anand
(1,4,3) = 14 pts
**I feel like the net is both gathering the image and contributing to the stillness
the minute
she was born
cotton candy sky
Christina Nguyen
(1,3,5) = 14 pts
pink sunrise
the kind of child
she might've been
Dawn Apanius
(0,3,8) = 14 pts
**I appreciate the idea of feeling called (by a beautiful sky) to imagine who the child might have been.
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Seventh Place - 13 Points
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the warm voices
of the woman folk . . .
watermelon skies
Ron C. Moss
(0,4,5) = 13 pts
the blind man
breathes in the
sunset
Bill Hudson
(0,3,7) = 13 pts
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Eighth Place - 12 Points
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sunset
the red sky slips
into darkness
RD McManes
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
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Ninth Place - 11 Points
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night ward
the sky spreads
crimson
Anne Curran
Hamilton
New Zealand
(1,1,6) = 11 pts
gray on gray
this light
that hawk
Ginny Hoyle
(1,1,6) = 11 pts
blue sky --
an eagle balances
in the wind
~ Caxton Okoth
(1,0,8) = 11 pts
hospital window –
the winter sky fills
with cobalt blue
Eduard TARA
(0,1,9) = 11 pts
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Tenth Place - 10 Points
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violet sky
the last orange
on grandma's table
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu
(0,2,6) = 10 pts
the weight
of autumn’s purple sky…
tattoo needle
if
(0,2,6) = 10 pts
**I like the sense of anticipation this captures
garden café
caught in the waiter’s eyes
the sky
Irena Szewczyk
(Warsaw, Poland)
(0,2,6) = 10 pts
looking to the sky
for answers
shades of grey
Ruth Powell
(0,2,6) = 10 pts
surgery day
the morning sky
a steely grey
Cara Holman
(0,1,8) = 10 pts
** "steely" so coldly evokes all those stainless steel surfaces of the OR
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11th Place - 9 Points
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pearly dawn
sparrows picnic
among cherry petals
Jan O'Loughlin
(Australia)
(1,1,4) = 9 pts
early dawn
the new bride's blush
colors the sky
Gautam Nadkarni
(0,4,1) = 9 pts
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12th Place - 8 Points
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Basho's pond–
does a frog feel
the blueness?
Lech Szeglowski
(1,1,3) = 8 pts
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13th Place - 7 Points
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lavender --
the long-distance train
crossing the grassland
Michael McClintock
(1,0,4) = 7 pts
dune cottage--
through the skylight
the big dipper
jill
(1,0,4) = 7 pts
spring sun
breathing the colors of an
invisible flower
-Ramona-
(0,3,1) = 7 pts
rain and more rain
the hooded crow's
slate grey voice
polona
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
**Our eyes are drawn so far out, deep into that sky.
nearly
a shade of spring
wind-sharp sky
Ann K. Schwader
(0,2,3) = 7 pts
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14th Place 6 Points
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gun shots -
birds drawing red lines
in the sky
Lavana Kray
Romania
(1,1,1) = 6 pts
the racket
in the garden
robin's egg sky
Gregory Longenecker
(0,3,0) = 6 pts
my cup half full
of lukewarm coffee . . .
morning gray
BILL KENNEY
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
March snowstorm
the sky keeps moving
across your blue eyes
Bill Pauly
(Dubuque, IA USA)
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
grey sky --
a drop of water falls
on my nose
~ Geoffrey Maina
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
a stolen memory
apricots
in the gloaming
Jone Rush MacCulloch
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
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15th Place - 5 Points
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crimson
after the quarrel
sky
gogatsu
(1,1,0) = 5 pts
milk-colored skies
the newborn stretches out
her arms
Stella Pierides
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
burning sky –
the crocus bud
shaking
Miorita
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
leaden sky--
I trudge
over the moor
James Dobson.
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
winter trees
against the grey sky
crow's caw
martin gottlieb cohen
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
that sunset
made the crescent moon
smile all night
Bill Gottlieb
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
blue
seagulls and sailboats gliding
blue
Christian Michel
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
**i like how the 2nd line seems to divide up the sky and sea.
india ink sky
the sweep
of the Cove Point Light
Ellen Compton
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
pea green sky
the eerie calm
before the storm
Edward
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
the sun's light
scattering blue
her white lie
Beth Powell
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
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16th Place - 4 Points
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taste of moonshine...
aurora ripple
across the sky
Michele L. Harvey
USA
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
cloudy morning -
the color of jacarandas
on the ground
Israel López Balan
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
sheerest cloud
stretched across cold azure
his blank stare
maxianne
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
March morning
a seamless blue on
the camera lens
Ella Wagemakers
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
morning coffee. . .
a vermillion sky
warms the day
Darrell Byrd
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
tiptoeing child
yellow pencil in hand
the morning sky
Oddbjørn Aardalen
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
pink sky at morning grandmother's words thunder
Angie Werren
Amelia, Ohio
USA
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
purple dawn--
a river streams
through her diary
Alegria Imperial
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
**The third line is a complete surprise. The connection made between sky, river and diary is as real, somehow, as it is magical.
blueness
accentuated by a single
white cloud
gourdman
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
funeral day --
the Sligo sky could not
be bluer
~ Isabelle Prondzynski
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
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17th Place - 3 Points
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A crimson sky …
the scent of cherry blossoms
floating in the air
Keith A. Simmonds
T & T
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
out of the ravine blackbirds scoop skyward a dark cloud rises
D W Skrivseth
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
a lone figure
on the deserted beach
grayness above
natalia kuznetsova
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
bits of blue
splash up—
a deep puddle
Marylouise Knight
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
Ducks paddle
through blue sky
beneath white clouds
Yoshitaka
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
stirring oatmeal
she gazes over bent heads
apricot sky
Andromeda Jazmon
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
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18th Place - 2 Points
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her first sunglasses
wide-eyed daughter
looks at a tangerine sky
Harvey Jenkins
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
Birdy-man
looking for his bird in
deep blue
Reza-semnan
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
shooting star --
the only one seen
in the dark sky
~ Elijah Juma
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
the rosy-fingered dawns
Achilles and eons of soldiers
never awoke to
Bruce H. Feingold
Berkeley, CA
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
thanks, Hopkins!
"skies of couple-colour
as a brinded cow"
Donna Bauerly
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
scarlet evening sky --
two swallows appear as dots
after a downpour
~ Catherine Njeri Maina
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
this evening
crimson streaks across the blue
-- i wait for god to speak
miriam chaikin
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
setting sun-
her forehead mole
darkens
Rita Odeh
Nazareth, Israel
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
beyond the canvas -
beyond the lighthouse -
crimson sky
Kat Creighton
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
an unsleepy night -
the bright morning sky
shamelessly blue
Juhani Tikkanen
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
rooks cry
and awaken the sleepy sky-
light thaw
Tuvshinzaya Nergui
Tsetserleg city, Mongolia
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
amber burn
single malt
horizon
Jennifer Thompson
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
azure remembering her eyes
Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
state fair
a cotton-candy sky
on opening day
Carolyn Coit Dancy
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
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19th Place - 1 Point
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black at night scent of a primrose
Ernesto P. Santiago
Philippines
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
steel-gray sky
mirrored by my handlebars --
I turn toward home
mechaieh
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
children paint ship's walls
in streaming red and orange
distant sun glimmers
assu
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
tears melt in icecream
a rainbow crosses
the blue
Vishnu P kapoor
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
billowing anew
in his silver trophy -
the jockey's sky blue silk
Sheila K.Barksdale
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
backlit storm clouds
my shoulders ache from steering
this boat home
--Kirsty Karkow
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
oil paint -
moving clouds change the hue
the blue now gray
Anonymous
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lavander twilight
the lighthouse light blinks
impassively
Krzysztof Kokot PL
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Late sunset
pines wave in the wind
red background.
Trevor Camp
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
March evening
celebrating
a first pink sky
Mike Montreuil
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
blue sky --
strong sunrays melt
my ice cream
~ Pauline Adhiambo
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
blue sky --
a dog folds its legs
at the football ground
~ Oscar Ochieng
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
daylight savings...
the purple dusk seems
a shade brighter
Diane Mayr
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
dark sky --
a sudden downpour
fills the pitch
~ Jacky Shirwatso
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
the children and I
counting the diamonds
in a black velvet sky
Rose Marie Stutts, EdD
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
the sun shines
on the flying birds --
blue sky
~ Douglas Musumba
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Pink purple orange
Upturned paintpots splashing hues
From above the clouds
Tanja Cilia
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
blue sky --
a passing jet draws
its smoky trail
~ Jescah Auma
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
the red sunset sky
mirrored in urban glass towers
a day moon
John Daleiden, Phoenix, Arizona (US) in the Sonoran Desert.
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
sunset –
a colourful
painting
Virginia Popescu
PHOENIX
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lilac rose -
when i close my eyes
mountain dusk
Sandi Pray
Robbinsville, NC
USA
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Deep blue -
on the bottom of the lake
a white trail
Petru-Ioan Garda
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
late spring
suddenly
a rainbow
Stevie Strang
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
dark sky --
a white flash of thunder
blinds my eyes
~ Mary Njambi
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
winning at pool
sky in the chalk
on my hands
LeRoy Gorman
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
**Like the through-line of happiness and "all's right with the world" which that sky blue color represents
dusk --
tree trunk black slowly leaking
into the sky's bowl
Shelley Krause
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
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LANTERNS' FESTIVAL -
romanian sky colors
on Guinness Book
STOPS
wet atmosphere
many rainbows
take shape on blue canvas
purush, Guntur
icy winds
primordial amoeba
drift in metal skies
Barbara A Taylor
Australia
solar winds
flap the aurora curtains -
coloured sky
JOHN McDONALD EDINBURGH SCOTLAND
wild onions
tangerine sunset
Irish spring
Anonymous
crimson underfoot
passing through the dawn sky
on wet sand
Elaine RIddell
dark clouds...
lightning strikes hard
on the trees
~ Febril Suzat
spring sky -
splashes in a well bucket
shake off its clouds
Nadalsuren
cloudless sky --
continous sunrays
heat the ground
~ Dennis Omondi
sunset --
the sky lit orange
on the horizon
~ John Maina
bright sky --
now the sun rises
to a new day
~ Merciline Amunze
after storm plein air
even my sky
monsoon green
Anonymous
dark clouds
engulf the blue sky --
sudden showers
~ Brian Mulando
approaching night --
I view the dark sky
through a camera
~ Rodgers Adega
through brooding grey
a small bright streak
shows the sun still shines
Frances O'Keeffe
Spring sky
Mauve and pinks
Heart soars
Angelika Kolompar
iridescent sky
ice crystals form out of air
sun-dog afternoon
Deirdre Godwin
massive mountain wave cloud
ablaze with the pinks and oranges
of setting sun
Jane DeJonghe
twilight...
pink streaks
adorn the sky
Tom Conally
color the sky
frozen waterfall
raises forest
Jacek Kielich
after midnight
the sky tinted green
before the tornado
Gene Doty
not a single bite
just this big smiling pink mackerell
on the evening sky
Jon Espen Vassbotn
early morning view
squeezing breakfast juice
sun bursting orange
Bernard Gieske
spring rain
future puddles fill
with blueness
Boris Nazansky
pure joy!
pink soap bubbles mingling
the deep blue sky
Peter O. Silvani
waiting to board the flight-
starlings rise
in a rosy sky
Anonymous
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General Comments:
**I was able to use only 2 points of the allotted 6. Fearing I might be too harsh, I went through the list several times (that's why I'm only submitting these votes on Friday afternoon), with the result that I dropped one entry I had considered voting for.
**Sorry to make so much work but I could neither drop any of these nor decide that any was vastly better than the rest. Good stuff.
**I was surprised at the absence of color in a challenge about color--so much gray.
**Thanks again for this chance to read some excellent haiku and vote on them.
**This month I had a long shortlist for each category - the more I read them over, the more it seemed one could get from them.
**Thank you for making this Haiku server work another year. I so look forward to each month.
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Thank you for participating in the March 2013 Kukai!
We will announce the May 2013 Call for Submissions on Monday, May 6th. I will be taking a break in April.
See you then!
With much appreciation,
The Shiki Monthly Kukai Team