First Call for Votes

Voting directions revised “butterfly” International Kukai No 12 March 2013

First Call for Votes--March 2013 12th International "butterfly" Kukai: 2013

Hello 12th International Kukai Poet:Voting Instructions from Rita Odeh and John Daleiden

Below is the ballot for the March 2013 12th International "butterfly" Kukai

Please NOTE that the votes should be sent to: international_kukai@yahoo.com

My dear haijin: your / our 12th ballot has been delayed because my computer was stolen. However, I have reconstructed the ballot from your e-mails. Note the revised voting deadlines highlighted in green below. I am still smiling in spite of the great inconvenience. Rita and I wish you good luck in the voting process.

Submission deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Friday, March 1 — Sunday, March 10, 2013. Revised Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Thursday, March 14 — Sunday, March 24, 2013. Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Sunday, March 31, 2013.

The Original Voting deadline has been altered due to a computer theft; altered from — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Monday, March 11 — Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

For ballot and results see: http://rita-odeh.blogspot.com

Haijin who fail to vote will have their haiku posted with NO RESULTS.
The managers of the kukai expect every participant to vote.
1. All the entries are listed on the ballot by an individual number; the haiku and the numbers appear between the sets of double lines.

2. Only submitting Kukai Poets are eligible to vote.

3. Email your votes to: international_kukai@yahoo.com
When voting, in the subject line of your e-mail please use the words: "butterfly" March 2013 Kukai

4. Each poet has SIX (6) points to use for the kukai vote. Voters may distribute the points in increments of 1, 2, or 3.
Do not cast more than 3 points for any single haiku.

5. Each voter has 6 points; Please use the following format to submit your votes (listing the haiku by numerical order, rather than order of preference, as in the sample below):

# 05 = 3 pt.
# 21 = 1 pt.
# 30 = 2 pts.

6. Please do not vote for your own haiku. Any such votes will be disqualified. Revised Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Thursday, March 14 — Sunday, March 24, 2013. Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Original Voting deadline has been altered due to a computer theft; altered from — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Monday, March 11 — Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

7. All votes will be compiled and the haiku will then be published; Results will be up-loaded to Rita Odeh’s blog no later than, Sunday, March 31, 2013. No other notice of results will be mailed to participants, so please check the blog.

http://rita-odeh.blogspot.com

8. Haijin who fail to vote will have their haiku posted with NO RESULTS. The managers of the kukai expect every participant to vote.

The votes will appear as per the following sample:
0, 2, 7 = 11 Which means:

No voter gave 3 points, 2 voters gave 2 points, 7 voters gave 1 point = for a total of 11 points

Revised Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Thursday, March 14 — Sunday, March 24, 2013. Thank you for voting in the 12th International "butterfly" Kukai.

Rita Odeh (Israel) and John Daleiden (United States)
/ro /jd

The March "butterfly" International No. 12 ballot:




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"butterfly" Ballot:

115 Haijin; 115 Haiku; 25 Countries
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light spills
into the courtyard—
butterfly dawn

# 01.
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squall line—
a butterfly's shadow flits
through my window

# 02.
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her Easter bonnet
flapping in the breeze
passing butterfly

# 03.
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hot summer colours
the monarch selects
the orange zinnia

# 04.
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Butterfly wrapping me around her little finger
# 05.
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the leaves
so yellow—
autumn butterflies

# 06.
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butterfly collection
so lifeless
so beautiful

# 07.
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lovers whispers—
butterfly antennae
trembling

# 08.
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flowering meadow
variety of butterflies
on the girl's dress

# 09.
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The bus for Greece—
Breakup of little butterfly
At the window

# 10.
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metal art—
in the flower garden
a six-foot butterfly

# 11.
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butterfly wine the whipered music in the willows

# 12.
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First butterfly—
the silence is moving
to another flower

# 13.
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calm dawn
a monarch floats
into autumn

# 14.
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drinking absinth ...
yes, van Gogh painted
butterflies

# 15.
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caterpillar eating non-stop to buttterfly

# 16.
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freckle-winged butterfly
grandmother planted
the fig right there
# 17.

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shooting buds
bringing butterflies to life—
but not the old man

# 18. =============================================
old pond
a butterfly watches
the frog jumping in

# 19.
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"butterfly shaped bread
a black fly on the butter—
her mourning breakfast"

# 20.
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overdue—
butterflies
in her stomach

# 21.
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butterfly
we do not move
flower and I

# 22.
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at her funeral
a butterfly flitting
from stone to stone

# 23.
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breasts rise and fall
with butterflies
her clingy spring dress

# 24.
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burning forest—
out of the smoke,
a butterfly

# 25.
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Spring sidles up and whispers,
'Marmalade currents
Seek ornate splendor and fly'

# 26.
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big opening
on the red carpet
a butterfly

# 27.
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heat haze
above the gridlocked cars
a butterfly floats

# 28.
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butterflies
the flutter
of my newborn's heart

# 29.
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for my niece
a new monarch
tests its balance

# 30.
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butterfly laughter my failed lotus

# 31.
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prayers for the dead—
a monarch flutters
on the stained-glass window

# 32.
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Emerald pillow
Scattered with golden butterflies
Angels in my dreams

# 33.
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still bare branch
adorns a yellow butterfly—
a gift to the spring

# 34.
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pear blossom
trembles of the butterfly
landing

# 35.
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unfolding the map—
a white butterfly pressed
onto Middle East

# 36.
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my son
drew the trace of a butterfly
flower to flower

# 37.
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pillow talk . . .
a butterfly lightly clings
to the lily's lip

# 38.

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spring garden
two butterflies settle
on my cheeks

# 39.
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Reading the future,
in my palm on the life lin
a blue butterfly

# 40.
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a pink butterfly
quivers upon a red rose . . .
ephemeral glow

# 41.
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after the funeral
the butterfly clings
to her finger

# 42.
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stolen kiss—
eyelashes butterflies
flutter

# 43.
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sun room
assiting the air condition
a butterflies wings

# 44.
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Drained river bed—
a lot of butterflies
on the poplar shadow

# 45.
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morning express train
a butterfly somersaults
in the meadow

# 46.
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sudden breeze—
my every pansy
a butterfly

# 47.
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English garden . . .
toddler labels every
insect "BUTTERFLY!"

# 48.
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spring buds . . .
as many butterfly poems
as butterflies

# 49.
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Fluttering softly
over her gravestone;
butterfly tears.

# 50.
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The butterfly on the flower
a spectrum of colours
in a tender touch

# 51.
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a starry night
in the showcase
dead butterflies

# 52.
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storm clouds
her small hands
cupping a butterfly

# 53.
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butterfly spring this quiet yellow rain bucket rose

# 54.
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singing in the field
butterfly, my butterfly . . .
alone . . .

# 55.
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Don't touch the flower—
do you not see on it
a lovely butterfly

# 56.
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autumn breeze
a butterfly drifting
out of the garden

# 57.
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loud clapping—
a spiral of white wings
into the day moon

# 58.
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dislike for butterflies
his roving eyes
wife's eyes follow

# 59.
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a butterfly
kisses a fading rose
and bids good bye

# 60.
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Painted Ladies
colors fluttering
from house to house

# 61.
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a butterfly drinks
from the pool of rainwater
in the horse's track . . .

# 62.
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departure hall
colorful butterflies
wide-spread wings

# 63.
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her laughter spreads
to every corner—
butterfly house

# 64.
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Restless wind
A butterfly moves in
Quest of a blossom.

# 65
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isolated meadow
two butterflies on her dress
overlooked

# 66.
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in the garden
where silence blooms—
butterfly wings

# 67.
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a jagged sun ray
through the leaves—
scattering butterflies

# 68.
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butterflies . . .
the flutter of wings
as I propose

# 69.
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I let go
of a butterfly . . .
childhood dream

# 70.
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butterfly
a whispered breeze
to the bamboo

# 71.
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down the dark gorge
chasing each other . . .
white butterflies

# 72.
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alfresco . . .
the eureka moment
of a butterfly

# 73.
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butterfly wings
pinned in the yucca leaves
. . . a dangerous neighbour

# 74.
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This poem was withdrawn by the Author

# 75.
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The sun is beating
Down on the new fallen snow
Butterflies drift north
# 76.
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on the heated rock
the colorful butterfly
and our shadows

# 77. )
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spring morning—
where to
butterfly?

# 78.
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snow melting—
my worries become butterflies
overnight

# 79.
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lonely sunrise—
a butterfly flutters 'round
a marigold

# 80.
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psyche the soul
flying through life
a butterfly

# 81.
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heavy sigh
releasing
the butterfly

# 82.
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dusk settles in the Pine Barrens Spring Azure butterfly

# 83.
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early spring sunshine
first butterfly crosses – spirit
as if something new

# 84.
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Beautiful butterfly takeoff
the goddess of jealousy
is after you

# 85.
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bedroom ceiling
blue butterflies
pajamas blue flutter

# 86.
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everywhere . . .
in the child's eye
a butterfly

# 87.
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Buckingham Palace
a monarch butterfly
visiting

# 88.
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Monarch,
I thought that coneflower
was for me.

# 89.
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heavy eyelids—
a butterfly slowly
fans its wings

# 90.
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small still rabbit
listens to the bird songs
and butterfly wings

# 91.
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A breeze . . .
Are there white butterflies
or cherry blossoms?

92.
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transgenics
blossoming without
butterflies' kisses

# 93.
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chapel in ruin—
a white butterfly settles on
Jesus crown of thorns

# 94.
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the sleet—
butterfly flutters
in daughter`s fan

# 95.
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seeing her lashes
flutter the first time she sees
a butterfly

# 96.
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scorching heat—
a butterfly lands on
the ice bucket

# 97.
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at his grave—
remembering of first
butterflies in the stomach

# 98.
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quarry blast
the yellow butterfly
delays a wingbeat

# 99.
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Butterfly effect—
definite the entity
of my confusion.

# 100.
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love flying
in many colors—
butterflies

# 101.
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a child flaps
her water-wings—
butterfly summer

# 102.

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Coming out
a butterfly expands
its wings

# 103.
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butterfly lands in
flowers atop deity
temple procession moves . . .

# 104.
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butterflies going
away and coming back–
lantana in bloom

# 105.
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Flight of butterfly
stopped by a ray—
how much sadness!

# 106.
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Butterfly wings
generate
a spring storm

# 107.
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wind-borne
a butterfly
in the balance

# 108.
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autumn—
in a quiet stairway
a butterfly folded

# 109.
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winter butterflies
the shovel's reflections
on the snow

# 110.
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you, a blue butterfly
do you feel the touch
of my gaze?

# 111.
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butterflies rest
on budding branches—
the red light changes

# 112.
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a jump and kiss—
a cheerfull butterfly valve
flew down on your arm

# 113.
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a butterfly
circles the tolling bell—
the scent of incense

# 114.
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a butterfly
on the quake debris
a no entry sign

# 115.
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End of "butterfly" International Kukai March 2013
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Co-editors:
Rita Odeh and John Dalieden
ro/jd