Congratulations to ***Michael McClintock***, winner of our Kigo section and to ***Arvinder Kaur***, winner of our Free Format section!
VOTERS' comments are indicated by "**"
POETS' comments are indicated by "^^"
Kigo Theme:
CRICKET
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First Place - 26 Points
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our conversation
fading with the campfire
. . . crickets
Michael McClintock
(2,7,6) = 26 pts
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Second Place - 17 Points
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another autumn -
the unchanged rhythm
of the cricket's song
Arvinder Kaur
Chandigarh,India
(2,1,9) = 17 pts
**this one is timeless
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Third Place - 16 Points
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summer night
walking in and out
of crickets
John Soules
(1,4,5) = 16 pts
**Such a short haiku, expressing beautifully the way the crickets' chirping ceases as we approach, and restarts after we have walked past.
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15 Points
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shared custody
her new fear
of crickets
Roberta Beary
(1,5,2) = 15 pts
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14 Points
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every night
the same bedtime story-
chirping cricket
--Kashinath
Karmakar,India
(1,2,7) = 14 pts
**As plain as plain can be, and everyone who has been a parent will recognize its truth. The cricket plays its part very well.
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13 Points
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crickets, crickets!
how quiet they make
this small-town evening
Anne Zooey Lind
(2,2,3) = 13 pts
abandoned stage--
crickets live in concert
under the stars
Yesha Shah
Surat, India
(1,3,4) = 13 pts
night crickets
you sang yourselves
into the stars
Ron C. Moss
(1,2,6) = 13 pts
all night long
crickets tell me
i'm awake
Sandi Pray
USA
(0,4,5) = 13 pts
**I've been there.
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12 Points
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one part dusk,
three parts loneliness...
cricket calls
Anonymous
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
**Shaken or stirred, a convincing mood piece.
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11 Points
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crickets
the cadence of fall
Terra Martin
(1,2,4) = 11 pts
chirping crickets -
my own longings
join the clamour
Ajaya Mahala
Pune, India
(1,1,6) = 11 pts
cricket song
leaves turning
in the darkness
Bill Kenney
(0,3,5) = 11 pts
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10 Points
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harvest moon
her snoring
drowns out the crickets
Edward
(1,2,3) = 10 pts
cricket beneath the window
neither of us
sleeping
April Serock
(0,4,2) = 10 pts
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9 Points
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lovers’ lane
the pulse of crickets
through the moon roof
Tom Painting
(0,2,5) = 9 pts
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8 Points
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wedding day —
the cricket's song
yields to dawn
Carl Seguiban
Canada
(1,1,3) = 8 pts
vermilion sunset
the sprinkler head and cricket
in time
Bill Hudson
(1,0,5) = 8 pts
cricket song...
a dog-eared book
exhales dusk
Paresh
(0,4,0) = 8 pts
rubbingtheirwingstogetherallatonce
Alan S. Bridges
(0,3,2) = 8 pts
^^ It is a popular myth that crickets produce their sound by rubbing their hind legs together.
night crickets —
the earth humming still
of its beginnings
Hansha Teki
(0,3,2) = 8 pts
evening crickets--
she misses the sounds
of her knitting
James Dobson,
Prudhoe, UK.
(0,3,2) = 8 pts
autumn evening—
we turn the music down
the crickets up
Sondra J. Byrnes
Santa Fe New Mexico
USA
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
evening darkness…
crickets keep me
company
D W Skrivseth
(0,1,6) = 8 pts
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7 Points
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cold snap…
the sudden silence
of cricket song
Ted van Zutphen
(1,1,2) = 7 pts
twilight –
in the cat’s paw
a cricket
Aurica T.
(0,3,1) = 7 pts
bait hook
the cricket that got away
begins to sing
aom (tim)
(0,1,5) = 7 pts
cricket bows
one final note...
autumn rain
Pat
(0,1,5) = 7 pts
a cricket
somewhere in the garden--
ripe tomatoes
DeVar
(0,1,5) = 7 pts
old hut --
a cricket hidden
in a crack
~ Beatrice Syombua
Kenya
(0,0,7) = 7 pts
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6 Points
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fireflies gone
the crickets' songs
sound slower
mechaieh
(0,3,0) = 6 pts
first light --
on the shadow of the sun
a cricket
Archana Kapoor Nagpal
Bangalore, India
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
cricket song
waving grasses
gone to seed
Michele L. Harvey
USA
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
perigee moon..
ebb and flow of the night
in the crickets' song
Anitha Varma,
Kerala, India.
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
lingering rain --
the late night sounds
of drops and crickets
~ Isabelle Prondzynski
Kenya
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
September night
just your breathing
and a cricket's song
maxianne
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
Russia-Ukrain armistice -
the crickets restart
their songs...
olga neagu
(0,0,6) = 6 pts
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5 Points
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leaves dancing
flamenco music
cricket castanets
Tanja Cilia
(1,1,0) = 5 pts
when I go near,
the cricket stops singing!
a game we play
Kala Ramesh
Pune, India
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
only the sound
of two mating crickets --
quiet evening
~ Denis shakava
Kenya
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
demolished house -
the sound of crickets
louder
Israel Lopez Balan
Mexico City, MX
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
alone again -
no cricket singing tonight
under the moon
Cristina Oprea
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
chirping cricket
in a tin bucket-
refugees camp
Lavana kray
Romania
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
sleepless night --
the chirp of a lone cricket
keeps me company
~ Arnold Ichenje
Kenya
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
the song
of a single cricket
harvest moon
Carole MacRury
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
**Funny how much it sounds like the sound of one hand. Lovely jux.
news of war...
the faint song
of crickets
cfc
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
**What are they trying to tell us? I often resist the topical in haiku (in other people's haiku, anyway), but this rings true to me in a way that goes beyond headlines.
crickets
keep no
secrets
Bill Pauly
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
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4 Points
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reluctant guests-
on the table a large tin
of toasted crickets.
--Kirsty Karkow
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
the september night
opens its mighty mouth
cricketssong
Oddbjørn Aardalen
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
autumn equinox
the transition between
Abbey Road tracks
Mary Stevens
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
cricket moon —
the song of my life
one last time
Vinay Leo R.
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
prairie grasses
just at sunset
a choir of crickets
Angela Terry
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
fading light
crescendo
into silence
Barbara A. Taylor
Mountain Top, NSW
Australia
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
dusted
cricket's
last supper
Ralf Bröker
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
in all my past lives
except this one -
a cricket
Susan Burch
USA
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
record drought
a chorus of crickets joins
our church service
Carlos Gesmundo
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
sleepless cricket
recounting my
guilty deeds
Ruth Powell
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
**The projection of the sleeplessness and the recounting onto the cricket: beautiful and true.
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3 Points
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crickets' cries
piercing this darkness...
demolished houses
Rita Odeh
Nazareth, Israel
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
**I like the way this haiku is open to interpretation. Are the crickets' cries mournful, or do they bring hope in a distressing situation?
deaf ear –
a half of the crickets
nowhere
Eduard TARA
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
conjuring up
the space station
a cricket
Barbara Snow
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
after the rain
crickets and guitar
sound sweeter
charlie smith
raleigh,nc
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
this silence between us...
the cricket's chirp slows
Laurene
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
morning drizzle --
a lone cricket chirping
in star grass
~ mwugusi collins (Kenya)
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
after midnight
a cricket's concerto
from the piano
Carol Raisfeld
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
**Funny!
closer crickets!
my old ears have signed off
this autumn
Svend A. Doggfall
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
city lights
somewhere in the shadows
singing...a cricket
Alegria Imperial
Canada
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
**This is a beautiful positive haiku. Even in the city, somehow, a cricket has survived to sing!
Insect chorus:
I add more & more things
to the mushroom soup
Sheila K. Barksdale
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
fading sunset --
the chirps of our crickets
grow louder
~ Patrick Wafula
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
crickets and clock
endlessly pulse--
insomnia
Doris
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
tinnitus...
the omnipresent
cricket song
S.E. Buffington
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
indoor cricket —
how large our home seems
as we look for you!
Shelley Krause
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
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2 Points
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men at a rum-shop
keeping a culture alive...
chirping cicadas
--gillena cox
Trinidad and Tobago
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
^^on a forest trail with my book club in 2012, the guide told us, it is the male cicadas which makes the sound we credit to the chirp
of the insect, the females are silent creatures
mellow moon
back and forth on the porch swing
cricket duet
Bernard Gieske
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
the grass hums
so many
crickets
-Ru
Canada
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
sliding trill
of the mole crickets --
length of a wormhole
Jayashree Maniyil
Australia
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
from grasses and thickets
an orchestra of crickets . . .
delights my sense of being
eric wp
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
Chirping for a date,
my lonely cricket tells me
just how hot it is.
Robert C. Howard
Belleville, Illinois
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
after the train
the porch-side all clear
restarts the chorus
assu
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
out of his repertoire
the quiet chirping
of the lover
John McDonald
Edinburgh Scotland
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
midnight
an annoying cricket
in the house
RD McManes
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
down memory lane
pretending the tinnitus
is crickets
Jon Espen Vassbotn
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
this year, too
the crickets are singing
September birthday
--Diane Mayr
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
hot autumn night
a crickets song
hastens
Stevie Strang
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
after glow –
the cricket song
becomes a ballad
Tomislav
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
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1 Point
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seem to know
we’re trying to sleep
damned crickets
Ignatius Fay
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
subtle tunes
on the doorstep
a cricket
Yukiko Yamada
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
musical evening --
dance of the fireflies to the tune
of the crickets
Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad India
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
sunset
cricket's monotone
gloom deepens
Binnoo
India
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
stars light -
in the silk of a yellow rose
a cricket's violin
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Romania
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
nature’s metronome
a cricket counts down the rise
of the super moon
Harvey Jenkins
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
summer moon...
the rising note
of katydid love songs
Samar Ghose
Australia
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lain on the fresh hay -
between me and the stars
just the cricket song
Dan Iulian
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
last cricket
then thickening dusk
in loud silence
Boris Nazansky
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
almost dark
the frogs and crickets
change the melody
Gerry Bravi
Canada
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
dark outside
bright wood fire blazing
and the crickets song
Frances O'Keeffe
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
argument again--
the crickets don't get
a word in edgeways
~Devika
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
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No Points This Time, Sorry.
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My wife calls him
a violinist; I sleep less
because of the noise.
Horst Ludwig
hosts of crickets
swirling in the summer wind...
farmers' anguish
Keith A. SIMMONDS
Rodez, FRANCE
neighbour’s cat
playing with a mouse
cricket’s song
dust
unrequited love -
a cricket's courting song
underneath the couch
Anonymous
^^ for this juxtaposition I like the word "courting" better than "calling."
in grandma's cottage
a cricket singing sadly
funeral repass
natalia kuznetsova
Moscow, Russia
daydreams
of an insomniac
crickets chorus
Gabriel Sawicki
from a distant field
the sound of tapping
a barn dance
David Williams
holidays in Mexico
I look at crickets
fried for dinner
Robert Kania
september evening
reckoning temperature
counting cricket chirps
Tom Conally
Gibsonville, NC
the moon
through the sauna steam..
and cricket chirps !
manoj saranathan
(SF)
I hear a cricket
but only inside my head
tinnitus
Elaine Riddell
tree-frogs and bullfrogs
cicadas and then crickets
journey through the year
Deirdre Godwin
silent evening --
crickets singing
in the bush
~ Edmond Tito
Kenya
The cricket I heard
in the coffin last year -
a singing bush now.
Petya Gleridis
glowing sunset --
shrill chirps of crickets
refresh my mind
~ Peter Kimuli
Kenya
bathroom's
tiny cricket
too cute to crush
Jane DeJonghe
house cricket...
the loud chirping sound
of dad
Ernesto P. Santiago
Solano, Philippines
melodious crickets
and my mum's humming --
supper preparations
~ mercy mbithe (Kenya)
I stealthily trail
a cricket on the wall --
full concentration
~ john ngota (Kenya)
Summer ends --
the cricket's song lodges
in her ears
Anonymous
I dance
to the crickets' chirps --
feet making beats
~ oscar ochieng (Kenya)
must it always be
the tiny ones who switch off
when I near, searching
Donna Bauerly
Dubuque, IA
^^I am well aware of crickets in the night!
autumn moon
as the cricket’s song is slowing
so love’s hope fades
Anonymous
Baby alone -
only a cricket chirp
for lullaby
Virginia Popescu
PHOENIX
canicular days -
cricket in my bedroom wall
serenades all night
Daniela Bullas
crickets' night--
knowing yet what's right
after an argument
Neelam Dadhwal,
Chandigarh, India
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General Comments:
**The week got away just as most cricket do!
**Thanks again for this chance to read and vote on some good haiku.
**A nice variety of juxtapositions this month.
**Thanks for your time and the opportunity. Spring is here [in Australia] with summer temperatures, fireflies and crickets!
**I am well aware of crickets in the night!
**…these competitions… are always an incentive to the students to watch yet another aspect of the world around them.
Free Format Theme:
LOST and/or FOUND
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First Place - 27 Points
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origami skiff -
a bit of my childhood
sails away
Arvinder Kaur
Chandigarh,India
(1,5,14) = 27 pts
**The word "origami" and the overall sound of line 1 are what saves this from the sentimentality the subject invites.
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Second Place - 22 Points
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morning fog...
each afternoon dad recalls
mom's name
Edward
(2,5,6) = 22 pts
**A familiar theme? Yes, but, sadly, a familiar experience. The line division is beautifully judged.
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Third Place - 20 Points
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after the funeral
the glasses
she never could find
Bill Kenney
(3,1,9) = 20 pts
AND
at the antique shop
the toy I had
when it was new
Mykel Board
(0,5,10) = 20 pts
**The longer I look at this, the more "it" seems to say.
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19 Points
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Milky Way –
losing the count
again and again
Eduard TARA
(0,2,15) = 19 pts
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16 Points
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the fog
finds him, lost
in thoughts
dust
(2,3,4) = 16 pts
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14 Points
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that same old dream:
what I have lost
to the river
Bill Pauly
(2,2,4) = 14 pts
sandcastle —
the tide brings back
my inner child
Carl Seguiban
(1,1,9) = 14 pts
**Simple -- and so easy to imagine!
slipping skins
from boiled beets:
a word eludes me
Barbara Snow
(0,2,10) = 14 pts
evening rain –
the lost letter
in a book
Aurica T.
(0,1,12) = 14 pts
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13 Points
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baggage claim ––
my rowdy seatmate
reclaims me
Roberta Beary
(0,5,3) = 13 pts
**I love this - a humorous haiku of modern life.
high school reunion
finding the self
you once were
Tim Singleton
(0,4,5) = 13 pts
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12 Points
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winding deeper into the dark forest wild morels
Alan S. Bridges
(1,2,5) = 12 pts
day moon
the vague sense of something lost
and found
Svend A. Doggfall
(0,3,6) = 12 pts
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11 Points
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night swimmer
lost in a womb
of being
Ron C. Moss
(1,1,6) = 11 pts
in a song
from the sixties. . .
my youth
Carole MacRury
(0,4,3) = 11 pts
**For me, it would be a different decade, but I get it. We don't know which song it is. And it doesn't matter.
**A quite-often experience for me.
misplaced keys
found in the same pocket
as before
Carolyn Coit Dancy
(0,3,5) = 11 pts
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9 Points
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found in the trash
my mother’s day card
unopened
Susan Burch
USA
(1,2,2) = 9 pts
long-lost
her baby spoon
in the crow’s nest
Ignatius Fay
(0,3,3) = 9 pts
diverging crossroads
somewhere I left myself
behind
Yesha Shah
Surat India
(0,2,5) = 9 pts
blind alley -
a stray dog and i
both lost
natalia kuznetsova
Moscow, Russia
(0,2,5) = 9 pts
turbulent river-
mom's call leading
the lost calf
Rita Odeh
Nazareth, Israel
(0,1,7) = 9 pts
**The traveler’s spirit of Basho!
nude beach-
a water snake
shed its skin
Dan Iulian
(0,1,7) = 9 pts
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8 Points
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the beginning
of her last breath…
waterfall
Ted van Zutphen
(0,3,2) = 8 pts
hollow sun —
the warmth
you once had
Vinay Leo R.
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
setting sun
for a while cheek to cheek
our shadows
Irena Szewczyk
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
where once we met-
the lost trail dappled
with violets
Anonymous
(0,2,4) = 8 pts
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7 Points
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ancestry.ca
a long lost uncle turns up
as my father
Harvey Jenkins
(1,0,4) = 7 pts
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6 Points
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LOST DOG --
a man searches
for sidewalk butts
Marshall Bood
(0,2,2) = 6 pts
falling, falling
from its pine tree aerie . . .
the smallest eaglet
--Kirsty Karkow
(0,1,4) = 6 pts
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5 Points
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woodland mold ---
the missing girl
wore pearls
Michael McClintock
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
**This one leaves everything to the reader’s imagination. A layered story in 3 short lines. Showing, not telling.
in the closed sock drawer
after hours of looking
the lost kitten
Bill Hudson
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
one summer night
all i've forgotten
to remember
Sandi Pray
USA
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
a sunbeam
lands in the hot chocolate--
lost childhood
DeVar
(1,0,2) = 5 pts
first dream...
looking for my lost child
through a labyrinth
cfc
(0,2,1) = 5 pts
**A memorable piece which I think could refer to a wished-for child, a fear of loss or the awful, actual loss of a child.
my dream
traveling in space
lost in the stars
Bernard Gieske
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
I find it
the name I'd lost when we met
ten minutes ago
Elaine Riddell
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
summer’s close
the sea’s sound
in the shell
Michele L. Harvey
USA
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
Indian summer -
a cricket found
its lost voice
Juhani Tikkanen
(0,1,3) = 5 pts
class reunion
bursting the bubble
of past memories
Terra Martin
(0,0,5) = 5 pts
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4 Points
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Oswego tea...
I find myself lost
in her bergamot note
Samar Ghose
Australia
(1,0,1) = 4 pts
Christmas morning
her teddy under the tree
in matching PJs
maxianne
(0,2,0) = 4 pts
**Pure joy!
lost and found bin --
a single mitten
with half a felt heart
Angela Terry
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
a fish released
then caught again
my aunt's memory
- mechaieh
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
monday... paradise lost
friday... paradise found
repeat
Tom Conally
Gibsonville, NC
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
**Not your conventional haiku – or senryu, for that matter – but most effective for all that.
hospice...
the moon pauses by
a man in wheelchair
Paresh
(0,1,2) = 4 pts
autumn
the medicine box has lost
its blackbird song
Oddbjørn Aardalen
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
light snowfall--
finding a hostel
before dark
Ruth Powell
(0,0,4) = 4 pts
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3 Points
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blank stare
of a plaster doll's head
tilling the old farm
assu
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
the sadness
of the 'lost
and found' shelf
John McDonald Edinburgh Scotland
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
milky way…
wondering which one
has her sparkle
Anitha Varma
Kerala, India.
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
temps below freezing
the lost and found box
empty
--Diane Mayr
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
lost in memories -
the wind stirs up all the leaves
for a certain time
Cristina Oprea
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
shortly after dawn
the cotton flowers open -
I am lost for words
Daniela Bullas
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
finding an acorn
lost by a squirrel last fall —
oak sapling
Shelley Krause
(0,1,1) = 3 pts
spring
around the corner
a chance encounter
Tom Painting
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
just married ...
years of lost baggage
found again
Carol Raisfeld
(0,0,3) = 3 pts
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2 Points
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Many stars blinking
lost their light above me
light-years ago
Horst Ludwig
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
out of the blue
a phone call from
an ex lover
Barbara A. Taylor
Mountain Top, NSW
Australia
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
lost in reverie ...
a conversation of birds
from the cherry tree
--gillena cox
Trinidad and Tobago
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
an incoming tide
bearing lost items
you found your heart
David Williams
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
the battle over
at forty-two
cancer
Stevie Strang
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
desperately seeking
my glasses - ah, there they are!
in the hallway mirror
Anne Zooey Lind
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
in the garage
scent of thistles and creek
dead lab's collar
Doris
(0,1,0) = 2 pts
summer evening…
scent of blossoms
names forgotten
D W Skrivseth
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
along the coast ...
under the rolling waves
my anklets
Archana Kapoor Nagpal
Bangalore, India
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
snail-hunting boys
in a weed-choked moat
endless summer
Sheila K. Barksdale
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
crowded bar
the phone's backlight
lights her smile
Jayashree Maniyil
Australia
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
mid night sky
searching for the star
where she resides
Anonymous
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
empty shell...
will the little snail
find it attractive
Neelam Dadhwal
Chandigarh, India
(0,0,2) = 2 pts
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1 Point
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Grandma walks back home
after days of absence...
a celebration
Keith A. SIMMONDS
Rodez, FRANCE
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Old love letters
and forget-me-not flowers-
lost-and-found office
Vasile Moldovan
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
she has lost her scarf
scent of tuberoses
in the wind
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Romania
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
spring returns —
the grace of blossoms
from the lost
Hansha Teki
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
found an old friend
in that cumulus cloud
shelling peas
Leah Ann Sullivan
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
virginity lost
the innocence found
gone forever
RD McManes
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
out of the pit
a lost paper crane floats up
in the storm
Alegria Imperial
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
dentures at 80
I see her smile stretch
from tooth to tooth
Anonymous
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
scratching --
a pair of harvest mites
have found my bra
~ Isabelle Prondzynski
Ireland
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
miles from home...
trombonist finds a lost coin
on green dolphin street
Pat Geyer
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
siesta time;
it too has found the roof-
summer squash !
manoj saranathan
(SF)
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
**Needs work. No punctuation would help. But I like it.
hot rocky shoreline
father and daughter fishing
lost laughter found
Anonymous
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
look what I found
rediscovered confidence
now that you have gone
Deirdre Godwin
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
with Thoreau
feeling my way through the woods
in the dark
Donna Bauerly
Dubuque, IA
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
^^I am always "finding" myself, even at age 80, which I just accomplished
a yellow book
in a heap of dusty clothes --
LOST AND FOUND
~ annete nyagoha
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
red lipstick...
and now up there
the stars
Ernesto P. Santiago
Solano, Philippines
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
quarter 'till eight -
the car key's not in
the same old place
Laurene
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
amazing grace
the song keeps running
through my head
John soules
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lost somewhere
in the distant mist-
a knock to her heart
--- Kashinath Karmakar
India
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
lost keys--
I move to look
in one last place
James Dobson
Prudhoe, UK.
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
Lost on the field –
shining in the night
only a mullein
Virginia Popescu
PHOENIX
(0,0,1) = 1 pts
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No Points This Time, Sorry.
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wondering, wandering
cloud nine
coming, or going?
Tanja Cilia
When I lost my mind,
I searched until it showed up
where I’d used it last.
Robert C. Howard
Belleville Illinois
music lost -
only one broken wire
in our love
Ajaya Mahala,
Pune, India
lost then realized—
the thread that
connects us
Sondra J. Byrnes
Santa Fe New Mexico
USA
losing itself
under an overcast sky -
a shadow of doubt
-- Shloka Shankar
India
back to my self-
cutting the ivy of memories
to find a door
Lavana kray
Romania
kid's innocent smile --
a shower of flowers of
the paradise
Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad, India
tiff long forgotten
"you'll miss me when i'm gone"
recalled this cold night
Binnoo
India
framed family portrait a lehman bond
Ralf Bröker
lost ―
in the cosmos field
mom's voice away
Yukiko Yamada
an ant lost her way
in the house -
dad, help her go home
Petya Gleridis
lost sleep
yet late night's deep silence -
precious
Jane DeJonghe
dusty torn shoes
with cobwebs all over --
finally found
~ geoffrey maina
I finally find
my dirty scarf in my desk --
evening preps
~ ambrose amuyoma
my lost bracelet
shimmering on the footpath --
floodlights
~ kevin akidiva
reflection of self
how many times have I lost
then found you
Gerry Bravi
(Canada)
dark night
strange street
and a clueless cab driver
dsnake1
under the sofa
long lost ring
should clean more often
Frances O'Keeffe
lost in thickets
with those noisy crickets . . .
the orchestra played on
eric wp
we found each other
dancing close
to "let's get lost"
Jon Espen Vassbotn
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General Comments:
**Thanks again for this chance to vote on some wonderful haiku.
**#30, #36, #52, #59, #66, #99
I related to all of the above.
**This September batch was a pleasure to read. Perhaps the theme 'lost' or 'found' helped haikuists to tune into the sense of negative capability and 'sabi' that the haiku form's aesthetic serves so well. It was hard to choose!
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