Results of "Butterfly"International Kukai, March2013

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First butterfly—
the silence is moving
to another flower

# 13. Eduard Tara: Tasi, Romania (RO)
13 ///5, 5 ,5 =24 ///1st Place
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Butterfly wrapping me around her little finger

# 05. Ed Baker: Takoma Park, Maryland (US)
5 ///2, 1 ,6 =14/// 2nd Place
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at her funeral
a butterfly flitting
from stone to stone

# 23. Ed Bremson: Raleigh, North Carolina (US)
23/// 1, 4 ,2= 13/// 3rd Place Tie
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burning forest—
out of the smoke,
a butterfly

# 25. Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
25/// 2, 1 ,4 =12/// 4th Place Tie
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snow melting—
my worries become butterflies
overnight

# 79. Ramona Linke, Beesenstadt, Germany (DE)
79/// 2, 1 ,3= 11/// 5th Place Tie
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everywhere . . .
in the child's eye
a butterfly

# 87. Chris Dominiczak, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
87/// 1, 2, 3 =10/// 6th Place Tie
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unfolding the map—
a white butterfly pressed
onto Middle East

# 36. Stops: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
36/// 0, 3 ,4 =10/// 6th Place Tie
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her Easter bonnet
flapping in the breeze
passing butterfly

# 03. Bernard Gieske: Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
3 ///0 ,2 ,6 =10/// 6th Place Tie
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you, a blue butterfly
do you feel the touch
of my gaze?

# 111. Dr. Smajil Durmisevic, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovinga (BA)
111/// 2, 1, 1= 9/// 7th Place Tie
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butterflies
the flutter
of my newborn's heart

# 29. Tracy Davidson: Stratford-on-Avon, England (UK)
29/// 0 ,2, 5= 9/// 7thth Place Tie
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butterfly
we do not move
flower and I

# 22. Boris Nazansky: Zagreb, Croatia (CR)
22/// 0 ,3 ,3= 9/// 7th Place Tie
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in the garden
where silence blooms—
butterfly wings

# 67. Sandi Pray: Robbinsville, North Carolina (US)
67/// 1, 1, 3= 8/// 8th Place Tie
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storm clouds
her small hands
cupping a butterfly

# 53. Patty Hardin: Long Beach, Washington (US)
53/// 0, 3 ,2= 8 ///8th Place Tie
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breasts rise and fall
with butterflies
her clingy spring dress

# 24. Karin Anderson: Adelaide, Australia (AU)
24/// 1 ,2 ,1= 8 ///8th Place Tie
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butterfly
a whispered breeze
to the bamboo

# 71. Alegria Imperial: Vancouver, BC, Canada (CA)
71 ///0, 2 ,3= 7/// 9th Place Tie
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spring buds . . .
as many butterfly poems
as butterflies

# 49. Kat Creighton: Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey (US)
49/// 0 ,3 ,1= 7 ///9th Place Tie
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pillow talk . . .
a butterfly lightly clings
to the lily's lip

# 38. Michele L. Harvey: Hamilton, New York (US)
38/// 2, 0, 1= 7/// 9th Place Tie
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overdue—
butterflies
in her stomach

# 21. Sondra J. Byrnes: South Bend, Indiana (US)
21/// 1 ,2 ,0 =7/// 9th Place Tie
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lovers whispers—
butterfly antennae
trembling

# 08. Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, Bucharest, Romania (RO)
8 ///0, 3, 1 =7 ///9th Place Tie
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the leaves
so yellow—
autumn butterflies

# 06. Vera Primorac: Viskovo, Croatia (CR)
6 ///1, 0, 4= 7 ///9th Place Tie
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light spills
into the courtyard—
butterfly dawn

# 01. Maire Morrissey-Cummins: Co. Wicklow, Ireland (IE)
1/// 0, 1, 5= 7 ///9th Place Tie
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a butterfly
on the quake debris
a no entry sign

# 115. John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
115/// 1, 0, 3 =6 ///10th Place Tie
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butterflies rest
on budding branches—
the red light changes

# 112. A.D. Jaden: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
112 ///1, 1, 1= 6 /// 10th Place Tie
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Coming out
a butterfly expands
its wings

# 103. Heike Stehr: Moers, Germany (DE)
103/// 1, 1 ,1= 6/// 10th Place Tie
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quarry blast
the yellow butterfly
delays a wingbeat

# 99. Bill Cooper: Richmond, Virginia (US)
99/// 1, 0, 3= 6/// 10th Place Tie
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down the dark gorge
chasing each other . . .
white butterflies

# 72. Asopa Sanjuktaa: Karnataka, India (IN)
72 ///1, 0 ,3 =6 ///10th Place Tie
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I let go
of a butterfly . . .
childhood dream

# 70. Josie Hibbing: Hartley, Iowa (US)
70/// 0, 2 ,2 = 6 ///10th Place Tie
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drinking absinth ...
yes, van Gogh painted
butterflies

# 15. Ralf Broker: Octrup, Germany (DE)
15/// 1, 1, 1= 6 ///10th Place Tie
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autumn—
in a quiet stairway
a butterfly folded

# 109. John McDonald: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
109 ///0, 1, 3= 5/// 11th Place Tie
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chapel in ruin—
a white butterfly settles on
Jesus crown of thorns

# 94. Cezar F. Ciobica, Botosani, Romania (RO)
94 ///1 ,1 ,0 =5/// 11th Place Tie
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Buckingham Palace
a monarch butterfly
visiting

# 88. Barbara Campitelli: Foster City, California (US)
88 ///0, 1, 3 =5/// 11th Place Tie
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heavy sigh
releasing
the butterfly

# 82. Paul David Mena: Cochituate, Maine (US)
82/// 0 ,1 ,3 =5 ///11th Place Tie
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spring morning—
where to
butterfly?

# 78. Freddy Ben-Arroyo: Haifa, Israel (IL)
78 ///0, 1, 3= 5/// 11th Place Tie
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sudden breeze—
my every pansy
a butterfly

# 47. Kashinath Karmakar (kash poet): Durgapur, India (IN)
47/// 0, 0 ,5= 5 ///11th Place Tie
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after the funeral
the butterfly clings
to her finger

# 42. Marylouise Knight: Omaha, Nebraska (US)
42/// 0 ,2 ,1= 5 ///11th Place Tie
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A breeze . . .
Are there white butterflies
or cherry blossoms?

92. Maria Tirenescu, Cugir, Romania (RO)
92/// 1, 0 ,1= 4 ///12th Place Tie
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heavy eyelids—
a butterfly slowly
fans its wings

# 90. DeVar Dahl: Magrath, Alberta Canada (CA)
90/// 0, 0, 4 =4 ///12th Place Tie
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alfresco . . .
the eureka moment
of a butterfly

# 73. Ernesto P. Santiago: Philippines (PH)
73/// 0, 1 ,2= 4 ///12th Place Tie
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butterflies . . .
the flutter of wings
as I propose

# 69. Vinay Leo R. (Vinay Ravindranath): Bangalore, India (IN)
69/// 0, 1, 2 =4 ///12th Place Tie
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Painted Ladies
colors fluttering
from house to house

# 61. Christina Nguyen: Hugo, Minnesota (US)
61/// 0, 2 ,0= 4 ///12th Place Tie
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morning express train
a butterfly somersaults
in the meadow

# 46. Harvey Jenkins: Nanaimo, BC Canada (CA)
46 ///0 ,1 ,2 =4/// 12th Place Tie
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calm dawn
a monarch floats
into autumn

# 14. Andre Surridge: Hamilton, New Zealand (NZ)
14/// 0 ,1 ,2= 4 ///12th Place Tie
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winter butterflies
the shovel's reflections
on the snow

# 110. Helene Duc: Bichancourt, Asine, France (FR)
110 ///1, 0, 0= 3 ///13th Place Tie
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love flying
in many colors—
butterflies

# 101. Maria Santomauro: New York, New York (US)
101 ///1, 0, 0= 3/// 13th Place Tie
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early spring sunshine
first butterfly crosses – spirit
as if something new

# 84. Goda V. Bendoraitiene: Klaipeda, Lithuania (LT)
84 ///1 ,0, 0= 3/// 13th Place Tie
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a butterfly drinks
from the pool of rainwater
in the horse's track . . .

# 62. Nadalsuren Purevdorj: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, (MN)
62 ///1, 0, 0 =3 ///13th Place Tie
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autumn breeze
a butterfly drifting
out of the garden

# 57. Bill Kenney: Whitestone, New York (US)
57/// 0 ,1, 1 =3 ///13th Place Tie
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butterfly spring this quiet yellow rain bucket rose

# 54. Rick Daddario: Kailua, Hawaii (US)
54/// 1, 0, 0 =3/// 13th Place Tie
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stolen kiss—
eyelashes butterflies
flutter

# 43. Dan Iulian: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
43 ///1 ,0, 0= 3/// 13th Place Tie
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prayers for the dead—
a monarch flutters
on the stained-glass window

# 32. Bill Pauly: Dubuque, Iowa (US)
32 ///0, 1 ,1= 3/// 13th Place Tie
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squall line—
a butterfly's shadow flits
through my window

# 02. Pris Campbell: Lake Worth, Flordia (US)
2 ///0, 1 ,1= 3 ///13th Place Tie
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at his grave—
remembering of first
butterflies in the stomach

# 98. Laura Csilla: Brasov, Romania (RO)
98/// 0 ,0 ,2= 2/// 14th Place Tie
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a butterfly
kisses a fading rose
and bids good bye

# 60. Radhey Shiam: Roorkee, India (IN)
60 ///0 ,1 ,0 =2 ///14th Place Tie
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singing in the field
butterfly, my butterfly . . .
alone . . .

# 55. Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, Ivanic Grad, Croatia (CR)
55/// 0 ,1, 0= 2 ///14th Place Tie
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pear blossom
trembles of the butterfly
landing

# 35. Vladimir Ludvig: Zap[resic, Croatia (CR)
35/// 0 ,0 ,2= 2 ///14th Place Tie
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metal art—
in the flower garden
a six-foot butterfly

# 11. Carmel Lively Westerman: Yuma, Arizona (US)
11/// 0 ,1, 0= 2 ///14th Place Tie
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butterfly wine the whipered music in the willows

# 12. Darrell Lindsey: Nacogdoches, Texas (US)
12/// 0, 1 ,0= 2/// 14th Place Tie
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flowering meadow
variety of butterflies
on the girl's dress

# 09. Marija Pogorilic: Rovinj, Croatia Croatia (CR)
9 ///0 ,1 ,0 =2/// 14th Place Tie
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hot summer colours
the monarch selects
the orange zinnia

# 04. Elaine Riddell, Hamilton, New Zealand (NZ)
4/// 0 ,1, 0= 2 ///14th Place Tie
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a butterfly
circles the tolling bell—
the scent of incense

# 114. Tony Valenzuela: mexico City, Mexico (MS)
114/// 0, 0, 1= 1 ///15th Place Tie
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Butterfly wings
generate
a spring storm

# 107. Ashi (Jens-Christian Kjaer): Brande, Denmark (DK)
107/// 0 ,0, 1= 1 ///15th Place Tie
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butterflies going
away and coming back–
lantana in bloom

# 105. Tomislav Maretic: Zagreb, Croatia (CR)
105 ///0, 0 ,1 =1 ///15th Place Tie
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Butterfly effect—
definite the entity
of my confusion.

# 100. Beate Conrad: Waterford, Nienburg, Germany (DE)
100 ///0 ,0 ,1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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scorching heat—
a butterfly lands on
the ice bucket

# 97. Seby Lucacs: Dorohoi, Romania (RO)
97 ///0 ,0 ,1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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on the heated rock
the colorful butterfly
and our shadows

# 77. Krzysztof Kokot, Nowy Trag, Poland (PL)
77/// 0 ,0 ,1= 1 ///15th Place Tie
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butterfly wings
pinned in the yucca leaves
. . . a dangerous neighbour

# 74. Diana Teneva: Haskovo, Bulgaria (BG)
74 ///0, 0 ,1= 1 ///15th Place Tie
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isolated meadow
two butterflies on her dress
overlooked

# 66. Irena Szewczyk: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
66/// 0 ,0, 1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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her laughter spreads
to every corner—
butterfly house

# 64. Jayashree Maniyil: Melbourne, Australia (AU)
64 ///0, 0, 1 =1/// 15th Place Tie
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loud clapping—
a spiral of white wings
into the day moon

# 58. Carole Harrison: Jamberoo, NSW., Australia (AU)
58/// 0, 0 ,1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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a starry night
in the showcase
dead butterflies

# 52. Robert Kania: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
52/// 0 ,0, 1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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English garden . . .
toddler labels every
insect "BUTTERFLY!"

# 48. Diane Mayr, Salem, New Hampshire (US)
48 ///0, 0, 1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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sun room
assiting the air condition
a butterflies wings

# 44. John Byrne: Wicklow, Ireland (IE)
44 ///0 ,0 ,1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
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heat haze
above the gridlocked cars
a butterfly floats

# 28. Juliet Wilson, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
28/// 0 ,0 ,1 =1/// 15th Place Tie
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big opening
on the red carpet
a butterfly

# 27. Heike Gewi: Aden, Yemen (YE)
27 ///0 ,0 ,1= 1 ///15th Place Tie
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butterfly collection
so lifeless
so beautiful

# 07. Maria Kowal-Tomczak: Opole, Poland (PL)
7 ///0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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The bus for Greece—
Breakup of little butterfly
At the window

# 10. Steliana Cristina Voicu, Ploiesti, Romania (RO)
10 ///0, 0 ,0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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caterpillar eating non-stop to buttterfly

# 16. Margaret Beverland: Katikati, New Zealand (NZ)
16 ///0 ,0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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freckle-winged butterfly
grandmother planted
the fig right there

# 17. Peg Duthie: Nashville, Tennessee (US)
17/// 0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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shooting buds
bringing butterflies to life—
but not the old man

# 18. Lavana Kray: Iasi, Romania (RO)
18/// 0 ,0, 0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
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old pond
a butterfly watches
the frog jumping in

# 19. Bernhard Kopf: Vienna, Austria (AT)
19/// 0 ,0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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"butterfly shaped bread
a black fly on the butter—
her mourning breakfast"

# 20. Munia Khan: Dhaka, Bangladesh (BG)
20/// 0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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for my niece
a new monarch
tests its balance

# 30. Ignatius Fay: Sudbury, Ontario Canada (CA)
30/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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butterfly laughter my failed lotus

# 31. Jennifer Thompson: Charles Town, West Virginia (US)
31/// 0, 0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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Emerald pillow
Scattered with golden butterflies
Angels in my dreams

# 33. Judith Bruton: Lennox Head, NSW, Australia (AU)
33 ///0 ,0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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still bare branch
adorns a yellow butterfly—
a gift to the spring

# 34. Stefanija Ludvig: Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
34 ///0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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my son
drew the trace of a butterfly
flower to flower

# 37. Tuvshinzaya Nergui: Tsetserleg City, Mongolia (MN)
37 ///0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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spring garden
two butterflies settle
on my cheeks

# 39. Ramesh Anand: Bangalore, India (IN)
39/// 0, 0, 0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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Reading the future,
in my palm on the life lin
a blue butterfly

# 40. Vasile Moldovan: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
40/// 0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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a pink butterfly
quivers upon a red rose . . .
ephemeral glow

# 41. Keith A. Simmonds: Rodez, France (FR)
41/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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Drained river bed—
a lot of butterflies
on the poplar shadow

# 45. Oprica Padeanu: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
45/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
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Fluttering softly
over her gravestone;
butterfly tears.

# 50. Debra Beauchamp: Caledonia, Ontario Canada (CA)
50/// 0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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The butterfly on the flower
a spectrum of colours
in a tender touch

# 51. Nevenka Uljanic: Rovinj, Croatia (CR)
51/// 0, 0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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Don't touch the flower—
do you not see on it
a lovely butterfly

# 56. Dragan J. Ristic: Nis, Serbia (SR)
56/// 0, 0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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dislike for butterflies
his roving eyes
wife's eyes follow

# 59. Vishnu P. Kapoor: Chennai, India (IN)
59 ///0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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departure hall
colorful butterflies
wide-spread wings

# 63. Urszula Wielanowska: Kielce, Poland (PL)
63 ///0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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Restless wind
A butterfly moves in
Quest of a blossom.

# 65. Asim Kumar Paul, Kharagpur, India (IN)
65/// 0 ,0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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a jagged sun ray
through the leaves—
scattering butterflies

# 68. S.M. Abeles: Washington, DC (US)
68 ///0 ,0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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Withdrawn at author's request.

# 75. Sergio Ortiz, San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR)
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The sun is beating
Down on the new fallen snow
Butterflies drift north

# 76. Charles Watts: Lake Placid, New York, (US)
79/// 0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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lonely sunrise—
a butterfly flutters 'round
a marigold

# 80. Ram Krishna Singh: Dhanbad, India (IN)
80 ///0, 0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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psyche the soul
flying through life
a butterfly

# 81. Pat Geyer: East Brunswick, New Jersey, (US)
81/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
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dusk settles in the Pine Barrens Spring Azure butterfly

# 83. Martin Gottlieb Cohen: Egg Harbor, New Jersey (US)
83/// 0 ,0, 0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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Beautiful butterfly takeoff
the goddess of jealousy
is after you

# 85. Arie Regev: Magshimim, Israel (IL)
85/// 0, 0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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bedroom ceiling
blue butterflies
pajamas blue flutter # 86. Gary Blankenship: Bremerton, Washington (US)
86 ///0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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Monarch,
I thought that coneflower
was for me.

# 89. H. Edgar Hiz: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
89 ///0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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small still rabbit
listens to the bird songs
and butterfly wings

# 91. Polly Thurston: Port Townsend, Washington (US)
91/// 0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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transgenics
blossoming without
butterflies' kisses

# 93. Franklin Magalhaes: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BR)
93/// 0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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the sleet—
butterfly flutters
in daughter`s fan

# 95. Andrius Luneckas: Vilnius, Lithuania (LT)
95/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
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seeing her lashes
flutter the first time she sees
a butterfly

# 96. Poppy Herrin: Laurel, Mississippi (US)
96/// 0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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a child flaps her water-wings—
butterfly summer

# 102. Caroline Gill: Ipswich, England (UK)
102 ///0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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butterfly lands in
flowers atop deity
temple procession moves . . .

# 104. Hema Ravi, Chennai, India (IN)
104/// 0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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Flight of butterfly
stopped by a ray—
how much sadness!

# 106. Anisoara Iordache: Constanta, Romania (RO)
106/// 0, 0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
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wind-borne
a butterfly
in the balance

# 108. Tom Painting: Atlanta, Georgia (US)
108/// 0, 0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
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a jump and kiss—
a cheerfull butterfly valve
flew down on your arm

# 113. Tatjana Debeljacki: UZice, Serbia (SR)
113/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
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End of "butterfly" International Kukai March 2013
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115 Haijin; 115 Haiku; 27 Countries

Austria (AT) 1
Australia (AU) 5
Bosnia & Herz (BA) 1
Bangladesh (BD) 1
Bulgaria (BG) 1
Brazil (BR) 1
Candad (CA) 5
Croatia (CR) 8
Germany (DE) 4
Denmark (DK) 1
France (FR) 2
Ireland (IE) 2
Israel (IL) 3
India (IN) 9
Lithuania (LT) 2
Mongolia (MN) 2
Mexico (MS) 1
New Zealand (NZ) 3
Philippines (PH) 1
Poland (PL) 5
Puerto Rico (PR) 1
Romania (RO) 13
Serbia (SR) 2
United Kingdom (UK) 5
United States (US) 35
Yemen (YE) 1