Results of the July 2013 International Kukai 16—camel photo

=================================
Kukai Ballot No 16 July 2013 Interantional Kukai camel photo
26 Haijin; 26 Haiku; 25 Cities; 8 Countries
========================================
=================================
desert sun—
in a camel's far-off look
an oasis dream

# 09. Kashinath Karmakar (kash poet), Durgapur, India (IN)
9 /// 1 , 3 , 8 = 17 /// 1st Place
=================================
praying time—
the old camel's head points
towards Mecca

# 18. Cezar F. Ciobîcă, Botosani, Romania (RO)
18 /// 1 , 2 , 8 = 15 /// 2nd Place
=================================
rise and fall
of the camel's back—
undulating sand dunes

# 21. Sanjukta Asopa, Belgaum, India (IN)
21 /// 1 , 2 , 5 = 12 /// 3rd Place Tie
=================================
thirst—
looking for
a desert rose

# 23. Robert Kania, Warsaw, Poland (PL)
23/// 0 , 4, 4 = 12 /// 3rd Place Tie
=================================
eco tourism—
when your car
is out of gas

# 22. Stops, Bucharest, Romania (RO)
22 /// ,1, 1, 4= 9 /// 4th Place
=================================
a needle
passing through the camel's eye
autumn quilting

# 06. Bernard Gieske, Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
6///0,2,4=8 /// 5th Place
=================================
summer reflection
ship of the desert steadfast
through winds of change

# 05. Cynthia Rowe, Sydney, Australia AU
5/// 1,1,2=7///6th Place Tie
=================================
unspoken words—
what promise are buried
in these sands?

# 12. S.E. Herrin, Des Moines, Iowa (US)
12/// 0,2,3=7 ///6th Place Tie
=================================
a camel trek . . .
beyond the shadows
whispers of time

# 13. Eduardo Rojas, Wheaton, Illinois (US)
13 /// ,0,2,3=7 /// 6th Place Tie
=================================
lonesome camel—
the oasis flickers under
a relentless sun

# 15. Arie Regev, Magshimim, Israel (IL)
15 /// 1,0,4=7 /// 6th Place Tie
=================================
the intersection
of old ways and new . . .
desert crossing

# 16. Catherine J.S. Lee, Eastport, Maine, (US)
16 /// 0, 0,7 =7 /// 6th Place Tie
=================================
three months later . . .
the camel still waiting for
its master

# 19. Sebastian Lucacs, Dorohoi, Romania (RO)
19 /// 0,2,3=7 /// 6th Place Tie
=================================
midday sun
the ship returns to his
native desert

# 11. Vitali Khomin: Mukachevo, Ukraine (UA)
11 /// 0,1,4=6 /// 7th Place Tie
=================================
empty bottle
like the desert road . . .
camel smiles

# 20. Vinay Leo R., Bangalore, India (IN)
20 /// 1,1,1=6 /// 7th Place Tie
=================================
fading skyline
the wateriness in
the camel's eyes

# 02. Ramesh Anand: Bangalore, India IN
2 /// 0,1,3=5/// 8th Place Tie
=================================
oasis
I carry rinse water
to the garden

# 08. Rick Daddario, Kailua Hawaii (US)
8///1,0,2=5 /// 8th Place Tie
=================================
shifting sands—
a camel chewing the
cud of mirages

# 17. Paresh Tiwari, Hyderabad, India (IN)
17 /// 0,0,5=5 /// 8th Place Tie
=================================
first load . . .
kaleidoscopic colors
burn

# 07. Hema Ravi, Chennai, India (IN)
7 ///1,0,0=3/// 9th Place
=================================
tank procession—
the persistent look
of a bound camel

# 10. Rita Odeh, Nazareth, Israel (IL)
10 ///0,0,2=2 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
My eyes convey
the pain—
but no one looks.

# 24. Rehn Kovacic, Mesa, Arizona (US)
24 ///0,0,2=2 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
camel and car
share the roadway—
places to go

# 25. John Daleiden, Phoenix, Arizona (US)
25 /// 0,0,2=2 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
nightingale—
a camel saddle leans
against dawn

# 12. Sandi Pray, Robbinsville, North Carolina (US)
12/// 0,1,0=2/// 10th Place Tie
=================================
hometown . . .
childhood shadows
welcoming us

# 03. Diana Teneva: Haskovo, Bulgaria BG
3 /// 0,0,1=1/// 11th Place Tie
=================================
road warriors
quest across the desert—
one, pollution free

# 14. Charles Werdenhoff, Joliet, Illinois (US)
14 /// 0,0,1=1/// 11th Place Tie
=================================
Camel rides for hire
Dromedary – Bactrian
Which one will you choose?

# 01. Robert C. Howard: Belleville, Illinois US
1 /// 0,0,0=0/// 12th Place Tie
=================================
camel toe
on the hot midday sand—
i thought my girlfriend

# 04. Andrius Luneckas, Vilnius, Lithuania (LT)
4 ///0,0,0=0///12th Place Tie
=================================
End of Kukai Ballot No 15 July 2013 Interantional Kukai camel photo
26 Haijin; 26 Haiku; 25 Cities; 8 Countries
========================================
========================================
Country list of Participants:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,
Australia, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, United States
City list of Participants:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,
Bangalore, India IN
Belgaum, India (IN)
Belleville, Illinois US
Botosani, Romania (RO)
Bowling Green, Kentucky US
Bucharest, Romania (RO)
Chennai, India IN
Des Moines, Iowa (US)
Dorohoi, Romania (R)
Durgapur, India (IN)
Eastport, Maine, (US)
Haskovo, Bulgaria BG
Hyderabad, India (IN)
Joliet, Illinois (US)
Kailua Hawaii (US)
Magshimim, Israel (IL)
Mesa, Arizona (US)
Mukachevo, Ukraine (UA)
Nazareth, Israel (IL)
Warsaw,Poland

International Kukai, 5th place

June 2013 International Kukai
Theme: MOUNTAIN(S)


long journey—
mountain peaks bright
with sunlight


# 001. Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
1 /// 1 , 0 , 11 = 14 /// 5th Place

Results of 15th International Kukai, June 2013

Photo Prompt: Jerusalem Mountains, taken by Rita Odeh
(Click on Photo)



Sequenced Results of "mountain 15th International Kukai, June 2013"
59 Haiku: 59 Haijin: 20 Nations/Countries: 57 Cities
=================================
mountain pass—
weaving in and out
of a hawk's cry

# 056. Sanjuktaa Asopa, Belgaum, India (IN)
56 /// 6 , 7 , 14 = 46 /// 1st Place
=================================
mountain trail—
sharing shade
with a lizard

# 059. John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
59 /// 1 , 9 , 13 = 34 /// 2nd Place
=================================
Bald mountain.
A good samaritan
offers its shadow.

# 022. Franklin Magalhães, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BR)
22 /// 2 , 3 , 7 = 19 /// 3rd Place
=================================
mountain trek
the ups and downs
in my breaths

# 009. Ramesh Anand, Bangalore, India (IN)
9 /// 1 , 3 , 9 = 18 /// 4th Place Tie
=================================
dark mountain
—your unbearable
silence

# 019. Sondra J. Byrnes: South Bend, Indiana (US)
19 /// 0 , 5 , 8 = 18 /// 4th Place Tie
=================================
long journey—
mountain peaks bright
with sunlight

# 001. Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
1 /// 1 , 0 , 11 = 14 /// 5th Place
=================================
striving for the summit her recurring dream

# 041. Patty Hardin: Long Beach, Washington (US)
41 /// 1 , 2 , 6 = 13 /// 6th Place
=================================
hot sand
the old tree pulls branches
toward the heaven

# 020. Vitali Khomin: Mukachevo, Ukraine (UA)
20 /// 1 , 2 , 5 = 12 /// 7th Place
=================================
lone tree
someone threw
the last seed

# 006. Seshu Chamarty: Hyderabad, India (IN)
6 /// 1 , 1 , 6 = 11 /// 8th Place Tie
=================================
mountain view
the lovers take picturesof each other

# 017. Bill Kenney: Whitestone, New York (US)
17 /// 1 , 1 , 6 = 11 /// 8th Place Tie
=================================
Oh, Jerusalem—
in this mountain silence
a voice

# 028. Tony Valenzuela: Mexico City, Mexico (MS)
28 /// 0 , 3 , 5 = 11 /// 8th Place Tie
=================================
the stark beauty
of your rise and fall
mountain sunset

# 013. Tracy Davidson: Stratford-on-Avon, England (UK)
13 /// 0 , 1 , 5 = 7 /// 9th Place Tie
=================================
always toward
the high places
. . . pilgrim's footprints

# 045. John Mcdonald: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
45 /// 0 , 1 , 5 , 7 /// 9th Place Tie
=================================
birds still sing
among desert branches
a mountain nest

# 047. Rick Daddario: Kailua Hawaii (US)
47 /// 1 , 1 , 2 = 7 /// 9th Place Tie
=================================
somewhere is the turn—
where the sky meets mountains
tired but clear thoughts

# 011. Goda V. Bendoraitiene: Klaipeda, Lithuania (LT)
11 /// 1 , 1 , 1 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
pilgrimage—
I walk this mountain trail
to the Holy places

# 030. A.D. Jaden: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
30 /// 0 , 1 , 4 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
the lonely tree—
my dog happily
wags his tail

# 037. Krzysztof Kokot: Nowy Targ, Poland (PL)
37 /// 0 , 1 , 4 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
Oh, little lizard . . .
praying for rain as
the hills are dry

# 038. Arie Regev: Magshimim, Israel (IL)
38 /// 0 , 1 , 4 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
reaching out
earth and sky almost touch—
long journey

# 042. Charles Werdenhoff: Joliet, Illinois (US)
42 /// 1 , 1 , 1 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
afternoon . . .
an aspen on the steppe
has no shadow

# 055. Tuvshinzaya Nergui, Tsetserleg C ity, Mongolia (MN)
55 /// 0 , 2 , 2 = 6 /// 10th Place Tie
=================================
dry hills to the eye
a fertile way for the soul
Jerusalem, your many gates

# 003. Lorna Cahall: Bend, Oregon, US
3 /// 1 , 0 , 2 = 5 /// 11th Place Tie
=================================
an illusion
of someone's presence
my hike

# 016. Robert Kania, Warsaw, Poland (PL)
16 /// 0 , 0 , 5 = 5 /// 11th Place Tie
=================================
an unquiet peace—
Jerusalem Mountain
trail twists and turns

# 036. Frank Jonas: Prescott, Arizona (US)
36 /// 0 , 1 , 3 = 5 /// 11th Place Tie
=================================
ridgeline—
in balance
the sky

# 043. Dan Iulian: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
43 /// 0 , 2 , 1 = 5 /// 11th Place Tie
=================================
hard to climb
even a small slope
in deep sand

# 004. Nan Dozier: Shreveport, Louisiana (US) 4 /// 1 , 0 , 1 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie =================================
first song
from the cascading sands
mountain heat

# 005. Martin Gottlieb Cohen: Egg Harbor, New Jersey (US)
5 /// 0 , 1 , 2 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
cloudy sky
the garden chairs
one above the others

# 010. Helene Duc (Kitsune Reveline): Aisne, Bichancourt, France (FR)
10 /// 1 , 0 , 1 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
Sleepless night—
Calls
from the distant mountain . . .

# 021. Anisoara Iordache: Constanta, Romania (RO)
21 /// 0 , 1 , 2 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
steeper than a hill
the view from my window
a gasping mailman

# 027. Ernesto P. Santiago: Solano, Philippines (PH)
27 /// 1 , 0 , 1 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
who walks
this ancient mountain trail?
burial tombs

# 040. B.S. Richards: Sun City, Arizona (US)
40 /// 0 , 1 , 2 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
leaving home—
threads of mountain unravel
behind me

# 049. Sandi Pray: Robbinsville, North Carolina (US)
49 /// 0 , 1 , 2 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
summer wind
un-claimed names tumble
in the void

# 050. Alegria Imperial: Vancouver, BC, Canada (CA)
50 /// 0 , 1 , 2 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
afternoon haze
clouds wreathing
the mountain peaks

# 051. Cynthia Rowe: Sydney, Australia (AU)
51 /// 1 , 0 , 1 = 4 /// 12th Place Tie
=================================
With a careful gaze,
rockrose and thorny broom—
such abundance.

# 002. Rehn Kovacic: Mesa, Arizona (US)
2 /// 0 , 1 , 1 = 3 /// 13th Place Tie
=================================
no matter how high
reaching the mountain summit
our quest together

# 012. Bernard Gieske: Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
12 /// 0 , 0 , 3 = 3 /// 13th Place Tie
=================================
a Sea shimmers
beyond this mountain trail
the hands of God

# 033. S. E. Herrin: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
33 /// 0 , 0 , 3 = 3 /// 13th Place Tie
=================================
glance at the Summit—
for a moment the center
of the Universe

# 054. Stops: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
54 /// 0 , 1 , 1 = 3 /// 13th Place Tie
=================================
empty desert . . .
a straggler nears and recedes
from afar

# 058. Nadalsuren Purevdorj, Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia (MN)
58 /// 0 , 1 , 1 = 3 /// 13th Place Tie
=================================
first spring . . .
with your hand
every mountain a plain

# 015 Anusha Tennakoon: Osaka, Japan (JP)
15 /// 0 , 0 , 2 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
mountain trail
the hermit thrush
I stumbled on

# 018. Johnny Baranski,: Vancouver, Washington, (US)
18 /// 0 , 0 , 2 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
desert sand . . .
that many stars will cover
the night

# 024. Gillena Cox: St James, Trinidad (TT)
24 /// 0 , 0 , 2 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
bare rocks—
he path of incense stands out
a glare to the sea

# 026. Štefanija Ludvig, Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
26 /// 0 , 1 , 0 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
an invisible viper
waiting for its prey—
no one anywhere

# 048. Tomislav Maretić: Zagreb, Croatia (CR)
48 /// 0 , 0 , 2 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
on the Andes
ice and snow—
the cross

# 052. Maria Santomauro: New York, New York (US)
52 /// 0 , 1 , 0 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
armistice
pulling his limb, pushed by the wind
an olive tree

# 057. Irena Szewczyk: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
57 /// 0 , 1 , 0 = 2 /// 14th Place Tie
=================================
We know what we know.
Though shrouded by mid-day clouds,
Long's Peak is still there.

# 032. Robert C. Howard: Belleville, Illinois (US)
32 /// 0 , 0 , 1 = 1 /// 15th Place Tie
=================================
pinnacle
choices narrow
to one

# 039. Allen McGill: Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico (MS)
39 /// 0 , 0 , 1 = 1 /// 15th Place Tie
=================================
sacred mountain
reaching alone the top
feeling free

# 044. Marie-Alice Maire: Rungis, France (FR)
44 /// 0 , 0 , 1 = 1 /// 15th Place Tie
=================================
little cuckoo—
I climb the mountain but
you've already gone

# 053. Angie Werren, Amelia,Ohio (US)
53 /// 0 , 0 , 1 = 1 /// 15th Place Tie
=================================
pearls in circle
the threads of clouds are carried by
the mountain tops

# 007. Tatjana Debeljački, Užice, Serbia (SE)
7 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
A lost tree what else?
the tattoos of the sun
on the white mountain rocks

# 008. Patrick Druart: Urou et Crennes, France (FR)
8 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
spring school trip
long hot climb rewarded
still more sand

# 014. Ignatius Fay: Sudbury, Ontario (CA)
14 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
Mt.Fuji—
climbing up the
temple steps

# 023. Pravat Kumar Padhy: Odisha, India (IN)
23 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
mountain ice melts
wildflowers appear
below the snow line

# 025. Harvey Jenkins: Nanaimo, BC, Canada (CA)
25 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
fresh morning;
snow capping
the mountain tops

# 029. Jayashree Maniyil, Melbourne, Australia (AU)
29 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
midget over
rising crest . . .
cool blue gazes

# 031. Hema Ravi: Chennai, India (IN) 31 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
the swelter on
trip through the mountains into solitude
thither and back

# 034. Andrius Luneckas: Vilnius, Lithuania (LT)
34 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
Hill cut to the quick
As the Zen Jerusalem
On the brain tractors.

# 035. Daniel de Culla: Madrid, Spain (ES) 35 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie =================================
a green lake
high in the mountain
a turist attraction

# 046. Marija Pogorilić: Rovinj, Croatia (CR)
46 /// 0 , 0 , 0 = 0 /// 16th Place Tie
=================================
End of International Kukai No. 15 June 2013 “mountain”
59 Haijin; 59 Haiku; 19 Countries; 57 Cities
=================================
=================================

Invitation to the 16th International Monthly Kukai July, 2013

==============================================
Invitation to the 16th International Monthly Kukai July, 2013
Catching The Moment: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com
==============================================


Dear Friends, Welcome to the 16th International Monthly Kukai—July 2013
Please bookmark our blog: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/
All communications are also posted on the blog each month: The Invitation; The Ballot; and The Results.
The subject of the July 2013 International Kukai No. 16 is the theme camel. It is not mandatory to use the word "camel" in the haiku, but the verse should clearly image the selected kigo. Kigo submissions should have a seasonal element or context. Send one haiku inspired by this image. Please, don't write about something which is not connected to this photo—Rita Odeh: camel, 2013.

Submission deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Monday, July 1 — Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Thursday, July 11 — Saturday, July 20, 2013.
Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Wednesday, July 31, 2013.
Participants may submit ONE entry. Submit only the haiku; do not create a haiga entry.
Do NOT enter any haiku previously published, work-shopped or shared.
All haiku entries should remain anonymous until we post the results.
Participants may vote as long as they have submitted an entry to the kukai.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
1) Address all Kukai correspondence to: international_kukai@yahoo.com
2) PLEASE use the exact subject line "July 2013 Submission".
3) Please sign your all submissions, ballots and communications with your name, your city, and your country of residence. Examples: Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL); John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US). All haijin will receive an acknowledgement of their submission and their vote from International Kukai.
4) Write your entry in the body of the email. Attachments are not accepted.
5) Haijin who enter the kukai will automatically be sent a ballot with the voting instructions shortly after the kukai closes at noon on the 10th of each month.
6. Haijin who fail to vote will have their haiku posted with NO RESULTS.
Link for results of June 2013 "mountain" Kukai No. 15:
http://rita-odeh.blogspot.co.il/search/label/International%20Kukai
Enjoy the new Challenge...!
Co-editors: Rita Odeh and John Daleiden
ro/jd

My haiku wins the third place, International Kukai #14

Photo Prompt:


(Click Image)



swept along
to the elephant's shadow . . .
willow leaves

Rita Odeh, May 2013, International Kukai No.14
27/// 2,3,7=19 /// 3rd Place

Invitation to the 15th International Monthly Kukai June, 2013

(Click on Photo)





==============================================
Invitation to the 15th International Monthly Kukai June, 2013
Catching The Moment: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com
==============================================

Dear Friends, Welcome to the 15th International Monthly Kukai—June 2013
Please bookmark our blog: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/
All communications are also posted on the blog each month: The Invitation; The Ballot; and The Results
The subject of the June 2013 International Kukai No. 15 is the theme mountain. It is not mandatory to use the word "mountain" in the haiku, but the verse should clearly image the selected kigo. Kigo submissions should have a seasonal element or context. Send one haiku inspired by this image. Please, don't write about something which is not connected to this photo—Rita Odeh: Jerusalem Mountains, 2013.

The first place winning haiku in the 15th International Kukai will be displayed as Haiga on the Photo and posted in the blog at the end of the contest by Sunday, June 30, 2013.
Submission deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Saturday, June 1 — Monday, June 10, 2013.
Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Tuesday, June 11 — Thursday, June 20, 2013.
Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Sunday, June 30, 2013.
Participants may submit ONE entry. Submit only the haiku; do not create a haiga entry.
Do NOT enter any haiku previously published, work-shopped or shared.
All haiku entries should remain anonymous until we post the results.
Participants may vote as long as they have submitted an entry to the kukai.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
1) Address all Kukai correspondence to: international_kukai@yahoo.com
2) PLEASE use the exact subject line "June 2013 Submission".
3) Please sign your all submissions, ballots and communications with your name, your city, and your country of residence. Examples: Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL); John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US). All haijin will receive an acknowledgement of their submission and their vote from International Kukai.
4) Write your entry in the body of the email. Attachments are not accepted.
5) Haijin who enter the kukai will automatically be sent a ballot with the voting instructions shortly after the kukai closes at noon on the 10th of each month.
6. Haijin who fail to vote will have their haiku posted with NO RESULTS.
Link for results of May 2013 "zoo/elephant" Kukai No. 14:
http://rita-odeh.blogspot.co.il/search/label/International%20Kukai
Enjoy the new Challenge...!
Co-editors: Rita Odeh and John Daleiden
ro/jd
============================

Results for the May 2013 "elephant" Photo Internatio​nal Kukai No. 14

68 Haiku: 68 Haijin: 17 Nations/Countries
Not voting: 3 / 68 = 4.4%: or 95.6% Did Vote


===================================
vast blue sky—
the freedom that
never was

# 059. Kashinath karmakar (kash poet): Durgapur, India (IN)
59 ///2,4,10=24/// 1st Place
===================================
come, little sparrow
perch on my shoulder—
the view is free!

# 022. John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
22/// 2,3,8 =20 /// 2nd Place
===================================
swept along
to the elephant's shadow . . .
willow leaves

# 027. Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
27/// 2,3,7=19 /// 3rd Place
===================================
new piano
she opts for plastic keys
Earth Day

# 009.Ignatius Fay: Sudbury, Ontario (CA)
9/// 2,2,5= 15 /// 4th Place Tie
===================================
That look
In the elephant’s eye
Deep remembering

# 029. Bernard Gieske: Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
29 /// 2,1,7=15 /// 4th Place Tie
===================================
after the visit . . .
the blind child trying
to draw an elephant

# 067. Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă: Botosani, Romania (RO)
67/// 0,3,9=15 ///4th Place Tie
===================================
seeking freedom
one mountain
at a time

# 050. Patty Hardin: Long Beach, Washington (US)
50 /// 2,3,2=14 /// 5th Place
===================================
moon of day—
an elephant wraps
the silence

# 012. Hélène Duc (Kitsune Reveline), Bichancourt, Aisne, France (FR)
12 /// 2,2,3=13 /// 6th Place Tie
===================================
the same path
every day
no way out

# 062. Robert Kania: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
62 /// 1,3,4=13 /// 6th Place Tie
===================================
even shadows
creep beyond a fence—
scents in the breeze

# 068. Charles Werdenhoff: Joliet, Illinois (US)
68 /// 0,2,9= 13 /// 6th Place Tie
===================================
distant bells . . .
the old elephant's eyes
shed tears

# 066. Sebastian Lucacs: Dorohoi, Romania (RO)
66 /// 1,2,5=12 /// 7th Place
===================================
the blue, blue sky—
just where
does memory end?

# 040. Angela Terry: Lake Forest Park, Washington (US)
40 /// 0,2,7=11 /// 8th Place
===================================
do you suppose
she too remembers her mother?
clouds pass in the sky

# 028. Eduardo Rojas: Wheaton, Illinois (US)
28 /// 1,1,5=10 /// 9th Place Tie
===================================
dreaming—
savannas and blue skies
from another time

# 061. Tony Valenzuela: Mexico City, Mexico (MS)
61 /// 0,2,6=10 /// 9th Place Tie
=================================== a walk with silence . . .
under a shady olive
a stone elephant

# 020. Gillena Cox: St James, Trinidad & Tobago (TT)
20 /// 1,0,6=9 /// 10th Place Tie
===================================
captive. . . her question mark trunk

# 004. Sheila Windsor: Worcester, England (UK)
4 /// 1,0,5=8 /// 11th Place Tie
===================================
swatting flies—
the scent of new cut hay
in morning sun

# 024. A.D. Jaden: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
24 /// 0,3,2=8 /// 11th Place Tie
===================================
—solitude
of a forest tree
in a pot

# 036. Anusha Tennakoon: Osaka,Japan (JP)
36 /// 1,2,1=8 /// 11th Place Tie
===================================
patience
in the weight of each step
destination

# 057. Rick Daddario: Kailua, Hawaii (US)
57 /// 1,1,3=8 /// 11th Place Tie
=================================== wild iris—
a lifetime to wander
broken dreams

# 015. Sandi Pray: Robbinsville, North Carolina (US)
15 /// 0,3,1=7 /// 12th Place Tie
===================================
kicking at dirt
she dreams of the grasslands
her ancestors roamed

# 021. Tracy Davidson: Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom (UK)
21 /// 0,2,3=7 /// 12th Place Tie
===================================
morning after . . .
sound of a distant drum
stirring dreams

# 046. Asni Amin: Singapore (SG)
46 /// 0,1,5=7 /// 12th Place Tie
===================================
Tremored ancestors
Tremble timbers clearing swaths
Family sojourns

# 054. Marck Riggins: Temecula, California (US)
54 /// 1,2,0=7 /// 12th Place Tie
===================================
hide-and-seek—
will they find me
hiding here?

# 038. Freddy Ben-Arroyo: Haifa, Israel (IL)
38 /// 1,1,1=6 /// 13th Place Tie
===================================
summer dawn
the herd of elephants
taking the dust bath

# 049. Ramesh Anand: Bangalore, India (IN)
49 /// 0,1,4=6 /// 13th Place Tie
===================================
baby elephant . . .
becoming the zoo's
evening shadow

# 053. Oda Hrade: St. Louis, Missouri (US)
53 /// 0,1,4=6 /// 13th Place Tie
===================================
summer in the zoo . . .
elephants remember
their watering hole

# 064. Vinay Leo R.: Bangalore, India (IN)
64 /// 1,0,3=6 /// 13th Place Tie
===================================
working
in construction...
an elephant

# 017. Maria Santomauro: New York, New York (US)
17 /// 1,0,2=5 /// 14th Place Tie
===================================
enclosure . . .
the sorrow
on the elephant's face

# 056. John Byrne: Wicklow, Ireland (IE)
56 /// 0,1,3=5 /// 14th Place Tie
===================================
long waiting for spring
too little space for kid
in sandbox of dreamland

# 014. Goda V. Bendoraitiene: Klaipeda, Lithuania (LT)
14 /// 0,1,2=4 /// 15th Place Tie
===================================
rogue no more . . .
yet think more
of sun and sand

# 041. Seshu Chamarty: Hyderabad, India (IN)

41 /// 1,0,1=4 /// 15th Place Tie
===================================
in the spring morning
the elephant remains still—
a meditation

# 047. Keith A. Simmonds: Rodez, France (FR)
47 /// 0,0,4=4 /// 15th Place Tie
===================================
on the yellow sand
the elephant is looking around
the prison

# 052. Stefanija Ludvig: Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
52 /// 1,0,1=4 /// 15th Place Tie
===================================
Bath in sunlight—
the river of the childhood
so far away

# 058. Eduard Tara: Iasi, Romania (RO)
58 /// 0,0,4=4 /// 15th Place Tie
===================================
Child's zoo set
Positioning an elephant
On the sun-warmed mound

# 002. Judi Suni Hall: Lethbridge, Alberta (CA)
2 /// 0,1,1=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
Displaced—
his friends and ancestors
remain behind.

# 010. Rehn Kovacic: Mesa, Arizona (US)
10 /// 0,0,3=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
Freedom is beyond
The mud walls and wood fences
That imprison me

# 016. Charles Watts: Lake Placid, New York (US)
16 /// 0,0,3=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
Baby elephant
Get on the pile, there on top
Even mum looks small

# 023. Arie Regev: Magshimim, Israel (IL)
23 /// 0,1,1=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
getting in the way
of myself
—prayers to ganesha

# 025. Sondra J. Byrnes: South Bend, Indiana (US)
25 /// 0,1,1=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
As well as from the clay
God made the elephant
at His likeness

# 031. Franklin Magalhães: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BR)
31 /// 1,0,0=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
The elephant yearns
to play with the other;
come open the gate.

# 044. Debra Beauchamp: Ontario, Canada (CA)
44 /// 1,0,0=3 /// 16th Place Tie
===================================
the weight of sadness
the elephant lives
whatever the setting

# 013. Ernesto P. Santiago: Solano, Philippines (PH)
13 /// 0,1,0=2 /// 17th Place Tie
===================================
Even and shadows
of memories
ache in solitude

# 030. Vera Primorac: Viškovo, Croatia (CR)
30 /// 0,0,2=2 /// 17th Place Tie
===================================
construction supervisor—
on the empty building site
only the wind

# 037. Krzysztof Kokot: Nowy Targ, Poland (PL)
37 /// 0,0,2=2 /// 17th Place Tie
===================================
paradise—
tracking back the gate
with your scent

# 039. Alegria Imperial, Canada (CA)
39 /// 0,0,2=2 /// 17th Place Tie
===================================
smelling
he sees . . .
acacia

# 051. Pat Geyer: East Brunswick, New Jersey (US)
51 /// 0,0,2=2 /// 17th Place Tie
===================================
Long nose, long nose
who knows the meaning of it?
Rhinoceros horn.

# 007. Naotaka Uematsu: Nara city, Japan (JP)
7 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
on a paved path
in a make-believe jungle
an elephant waits

# 008. Peggy Heinrich: Santa Cruz, CA (US)
8 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
the smell of shit
only the cage
humiliates more

# 011. Michael O'Brien: Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
11 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
she sprays her back
waiting for the paints—
a blank canvas

# 026. S.E. Herrin: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
26 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
canopy
grey upon grey
shadows

# 032. June Rose Dowis: Shreveport, Louisiana (US)
32 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
zoos heat wave
the elephants trumpet
breathes in ice creams

# 034. Karin Anderson: Adelaide, S.A. (AU)
34 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
summer shade . . .
a dash of chilli
still burning

# 045. Jayashree Maniyil: Melbourne, Australia (AU)
45 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
large lonesome mammal
so small, rustic yet urban
between land and sky

# 048. Munia Khan: Dhaka, Bangladesh (BD)
48 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
How simple—
no shrouds, no flowers or crowds
in front of the grave

# 063. Jake Friedman: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
63 /// 0,0,1=1 /// 18th Place Tie
===================================
irrigation lines
coated with dust
slow breaths

# 001. Peg Duthie: Nashville, Tennessee (US)
1 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
Staring vacantly into space
the horse's eyes wait for
a man's sight

# 003. Vasile Moldovan: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
3 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
Far greater than man
this majestic giant beast
treads upon earth's land

# 006. Bonnie Flach: San Diego, California (US)
6 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
trees and shrub
elephant around the tail mother
of scattered sunbeams.

# 018. Tatjana Debeljački: Užice, Serbia (SR)
18 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
Happy Easter with lamb roast—
calf roast only
in Gulliver's homeland

# 019. Stops: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
19 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
pachyderm snorts
mounds of mud cover his dung
manure for the zoo

# 033. Sandra Martyres: Mumbai India (IN)
33 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
zoos heat wave
the elephants trumpet
breathes in ice creams

# 034. Karin Anderson: Adelaide, S.A. (AU)
34 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
high on Dad’s shoulders
so strong and capable
we explore the zoo

# 035. Harvey Jenkins: Nanaimo, BC Canada (CA)
35 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
watching the stone fence
a tear on the elephant's eye
Tel Aviv ZOO

# 055. Vladimir Ludvig: Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
55 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
sunday evening—
husking sunflowers in the yard
mother-in-law

# 60. Andrius Luneckas: Vilnius, Lituania (LT)
60 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
sand and grass
a battle for
light and water

# 065. Nan Dozier: Shreveport, Louisiana, (US)
65 /// 0,0,0=0 /// 19th Place Tie
===================================
===================================
===================================
===================================

Non voters don't get their results:



Tel Aviv zoo—
he has its own wailing wall
the poor elephant

# 043. Patrick Druart: Urou et Crennes, France (FR)
===================================
Somewhere in Israel
an elephant's ears
fan the dust

# 005. Mike W. Blottenberger: Hanover, Pennsylvania (US)
===================================
An elephant dreams . . .
Does pachyderm gymnastics...
Will not get thinner

# 042. Tanja Cilia: Santa Venera, Malta (MT)
===================================
===================================


Thanks for taking part in this kukai.
Rita Odeh and John Daleiden
ro/jd

Invitation to the 14th International Monthly Kukai May, 2013

Invitation to the 14th International Monthly Kukai May, 2013
==============================================
Dear Friends, Welcome to the 14th International Monthly Kukai.

Please bookmark our blog: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/

The topic for the May 2013 edition is a little different. We invite you to get inspired by Rita Odeh's photograph above taken at the Zoological Center Tel Aviv, 2012. Send one haiku inspired by this image. (You may describe the photo or provide a parallel, contrasted image to it.)

The first place winning haiku in the 14th International Kukai will be displayed as Haiga on the Photo and posted in the blog at the end of the contest by May31, 2013

Submission deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Wednesday, May 1 — Friday, May 10, 2013.

Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4) Saturday, May 11 — Monday, May 20, 2013.

Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Friday, May 31, 2013.

Participants may submit ONE entry. Submit only the haiku; do not create a haiga entry.

Do NOT enter any haiku previously published, work-shopped or shared.

All haiku entries should remain anonymous until we post the results.

Participants may vote as long as they have submitted an entry to the kukai.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1) Address all Kukai correspondence to: international_kukai@yahoo.com

2) PLEASE use the exact subject "May 2013 Submission" for the subject line.

3) Please sign your all submissions, ballots and communications with your name, your city, and your country of residence. Examples:

Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)

John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)

4) Write your entry in the body of the email. Attachments are not accepted.

5) Haijin who enter the kukai will automatically be sent a ballot with the voting instructions shortly after the kukai closes at noon on the 10th of each month.

Link for results of April 2013 "butterfly" Kukai No. 13:
http://rita-odeh.blogspot.co.il/search/label/International%20Kukai

Enjoy the new Challenge...!

Co-editors: Rita Odeh and John Daleiden
https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com/

ro/jd

Photo: Rita Odeh. Tel Aviv Zoological Center, 2012

The April 2013 "Akko Beach Photo" International No. 13

(Click Image)



The April 2013 "Akko Beach Photo" International No. 13:

Winners List Arranged from High -- Low

=============================================================================
Australia (2), Bangladesh (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2), Croatia (4), Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (1), India (4), Israel (2), Lithuania (1), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Philippines (1), Poland (2), Romania (5), Singapore (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (14)

=============================================================================
50 Haijin; 50 Haiku; 22 Countries
=============================================
For Example:
44/// 3, 5 , 11= 30 /// 1st Place
The first number(44) represents the Haiku.
2-4th numbers represent voters per 3 place X 3, 2nd place X 2, 1st place X 1 = 5th number(30) representing the total votes received which indicates a Place and / or Tie.



=======================================
heavy sea . . .
i can't take back
the words i never said

# 044. Sebastian Lucacs: Dorohoi, Romania (RO)
44/// 3, 5, 11 =30 ///1st Place
=======================================
return of spring—
walking along the defensive walls
after chemo

# 037. Irena Szewczyk: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
37/// 0, 5, 6= 16/// 2nd Place
,=======================================
battered shores—
the silence in a soul
passing

# 027. Carole Harrison: Jamberoo, NSW., Australia (AU)
27/// 1, 2, 5= 12/// 3rd Place
=======================================
Coastal fort,
do you know the waves
are winning?

# 013. H. Edgar Hix: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
13/// 1 ,2 ,4 =11 ///4th Place Tie
========================================
departing cranes—
dreaming of places
I've never been

# 049. Laura Csilla: Brasov, Romania (RO)
49/// 0, 3, 5= 11/// 4th Place Tie
=======================================
fading light
the wave recedes
the tiny shells

# 004.Ramesh Anand: Bangalore, India (IN)
4/// 2, 1, 2 =10/// 5th Place Tie
=======================================
Akko’s citadel
even these stone walls
cannot stop the winter wind

# 024. Harvey Jenkins: Nanaimo, BC Canada (CA)
24/// 1, 1 ,5= 10 ///5th Place Tie
=======================================
a cliff
she dreams
of flying

# 047. Patty Hardin: Long Beach, Washington, (US)
47/// 2, 0 ,3= 9 ///6th Place Tie
=======================================
old citadel
lapped by returning waves—
twilight's hush

# 048. Kashinath Karmakar (kash poet): Durgapur, India (IN)
48/// 1, 2 ,2 =9 ///6th Place Tie
=======================================
dawn stillness . . .
a bluebird reappears near
the ancient walls

# 005. Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
5/// 0, 2, 4 =8 /// 7th Place Tie
=======================================
dry wind
echoes of the bell
on the ship

# 046. Robert Kania: Warsaw, Poland (PL)
46/// 1, 0 ,5= 8/// 7th Place Tie
=======================================
morning light . . .
a bell in the church spire
its silence

# 010. Gillena Cox: St. James, Trinidad and Tobago (TT)
10/// 1 ,1, 2= 7/// 8th Place Tie
=======================================
first time
above the moss line
spring tide

# 029. Bernard Gieske: Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
29 ///0, 1 ,5= 7/// 8th Place Tie
=======================================
Little lantern
peeking over the wall;
protected protector.

# 034. Debra L. Beauchamp: Caledonia, Ontario, Canada (CA)
34/// 1, 1, 2= 7/// 8th Place Tie
=======================================
Waves and the wall
a stormy love affair

# 039. Arie Regev: Magshimim, Israel (IL)
39/// 2, 0 ,1= 7 ///8th Place Tie
=======================================
sunrise and sea waves—
eyes watching for centuries
inside these walls

# 042.Tony Valenzuela: Mexico City, Mexico (MS)
42 /// 1 , 0 , 4 = 7 /// 8th Place Tie
=======================================
no news from the front . . .
sharing favorite memories
with other seagulls

# 050. Cezar-Florin Ciobica: Botosani, Romania (RO)
50/// 1 ,2 ,0= 7/// 8th Place Tie
=======================================
fragrant sea breezes
drifting over a sea wall
the sound of waves

# 041. A.D. Jaden: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
41/// 0 ,1, 4= 6/// 9th Place Tie
=======================================
her spring dreams
ready for escape—
sea waves roll in

# 001. John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
1 ///1 ,0, 2= 5/// 10th Place Tie
=======================================
in the silence of twilight
waves
and seagull a cry

# 014. Vera Primorac: Viskovo, Croatia (CR)
14/// 0, 2 , 1 =5 /// 10th Place Tie
=======================================
spring sea lapping
whispering
ancient words

# 016. Ed Bremson: Raleigh, North Carolina (US)
16/// 0, 1, 3= 5/// 10th Place Tie
=======================================
spring thunder
sea horses hooves resound
on fort’s secret walls

# 032. Karin Anderson: Adelaide, South Australia (AU)
32/// 1, 0, 2= 5/// 10th Place Tie
=======================================
"walls of your castle
as stony as your cold heart
hope-waves rise and fall"

# 009. Munia Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh (BD)
9/// 1, 0, 1= 4/// 11th Place Tie
=======================================
building trust
a step-by-step approach—
exposed rock pools

# 021. Ernesto P. Santiago: Solano, Philippines (PH)
21/// 0, 0, 4= 4/// 11th Place Tie
=======================================
dusk setting in—
over the sea wall rolls
the sound of the surf

# 038. Bouwe Brouwer: Emmeloord, Netherlands (NL)
38/// 0, 0, 4= 4/// 11th Place Tie
=======================================
earth, water, air—
our pledges of faithfulness
so elemental

# 045. S.R. Herrin: Des Moines, Iowa (US)
45/// 1, 0, 1= 4/// 11th Place Tie
=======================================
sandals dry
but skin spring-damp—
Galilee sunrise

# 007. Peg Duthie: Nashville, TN, (US)
7/// 0, 0, 3= 3/// 12th Place Tie
=======================================
each brick
against the last winter storm
a pine tree in the forest

# 008. Rick Daddario, Kailua Hawaii (US)
8 ///0, 0 ,3 =3 ///12th Place Tie
=======================================
above
the rising, falling waves . . .
a turtle dove

# 023. Asni Amin: Singapore, (SG)
23/// 0, 1, 1 = 3/// 12th Place Tie
=======================================
behind the wall
last year's crocus thrives
here comes the flood

# 011. Ralf Bröker, Ochtrup, Germany (DE)
11/// 0, 1, 0= 2/// 13th Place Tie
=======================================
clouds over the sea—
the fort standing steady
foaming the waves

# 035. Stefanija Ludvig, Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
35/// 0 ,0, 2= 2 /// 13th Place Tie
=======================================
sunset serenity
on the distant horizon…
does the sea have a soul?!

# 043. Diana Teneva: Haskovo, Bulgaria (BG)
43/// 0, 1, 0= 2/// 13th Place Tie
=======================================
Spring waves
slowly hitting the wall—
her heart still beating

# 002. Eduard Tara: Iasi, Romania (RO)
2/// 0, 0, 1= 1 /// 14th Place Tie
=======================================
fish
just vanished
in the sea foam

# 025. Vladimir Ludvig: Zapresic, Croatia (CR)
25/// 0, 0, 1= 1/// 14th Place Tie
=======================================
departures
outweigh arrivals—
his ship steams into the night

# 026. Margaret Beverland: Katikat, New Zealand (NZ)
26/// 0, 0, 1= 1/// 14th Place Tie
=======================================
Haijins who didn't vote:
=======================================
spring storm—
how the old lighthouse
basks in sunlight

# 012. Terrie Leigh Relf (AKA semi), San Diego, California (US)
=======================================
mid summer rain clouds
haunt dark waters . . .
stony silence

# 019. Hema Ravi: Chennai, India (IN)
=======================================
spring wind
a wall of water breaches
the breakwater

# 030. Carmel Lively Westerman: Yuma, Arizona (US)
=======================================
Time's waves siege—
Berlin Wall less strong than
every strengthened church

# 018. Stops, Bucharest, Romania, (RO)
18/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
vigil
for storm . . .
waters vapid now

# 020. Seshu Chamarty: Hyderabad, India (IN)
20/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
cold spring—
stone by stone the ship
bundled up of horizon

# 022. Helene Duc: Bichancourt, Aisne, France (FR)
22/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
The waves of the sea
Come this far but no farther
Broken by Akka

# 028. Charles Watts: Lake Placid, New York (US)
28/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
In the end
escape
a matter of trust

# 031. Jens-Christian Kjær (Ashi): Brande, Jylland, Denmark (DK)
31/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
Withdrawn:

# 033.
=======================================
the lighthouse . . .
a sentinel cloud hovers
over a placid sea

# 040. Keith A Simmonds: Rodez, France (FR)
40/// 0, 0, 0 = 0/// 15th Place Tie
=======================================
Non Voters don't get their results:
=======================================
spring storm—
how the old lighthouse
basks in sunlight

# 012. Terrie Leigh Relf (AKA semi), San Diego, California (US)
=======================================
mid summer rain clouds
haunt dark waters . . .
stony silence

# 019. Hema Ravi: Chennai, India (IN)
=======================================
spring wind
a wall of water breaches
the breakwater

# 030. Carmel Lively Westerman: Yuma, Arizona (US)
=======================================
respite from the wind;
space and time cease to exist . . .
a new dawn coming

# 006.Tanja Cilia: Fleur de Lys, Malta (MT)
=======================================
Living with a sea
has a life of weigh anchor
dreaming vacations.

# 015. Daniel de Culla: Madrid, Spain (SP)
=======================================
Hopelessly in life
Search salvation
In the bright horizon

# 036. Nevenka Uljanić, Rovinj, Croatia (CR)
========================================================
End of Kukai Results April 2013 No. 13 International Akko Beach Photo
========================================================

Invitation to the 13th International Monthly Kukai April, 2013

Akko Beach
Photo by Rita Odeh, Nazareth, Israel
(Click Image)





=============

Invitation to the 13th International Monthly Kukai April, 2013

==============





Dear Friends, Welcome to the 13th International Monthly Kukai

Please bookmark our blog: https://rita-odeh.blogspot.com


The topic for the April 2013 edition is a little different.
We invite you to get inspired by Rita Odeh's photograph above taken at Akko Beach on March 2013 .
Send one haiku inspired by this image.
(You may describe the photo or provide a parallel image to it.)


The International Kukai editors have not selected a kigo word that must be included, but please remember, one of the identifying hallmarks of haiku is the use of kigo. On-line sijiki are available at these links:
• The five hundred essential Japanese season words Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto and translated by William J. Higginson and Kris Young Kondo
• Japanese Haiku - a Topical Dictionary at the Univ. of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative a work-in-progress based on the Nyu-mon Saijiki by the Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo, most translations by William J. Higginson and Lewis Cook
• The Yuki Teikei Haiku Season Word List from the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (Northern California)
• World Kigo Database Gabi Greve's project supported by the World Haiku Club
• Season words from the Shiki mailing list kukai
o Spring season words
o Summer season words
o Autumn season words
o Winter season words
Print sajiki resources are also available:
• Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, Kodansha International © 1996 ISBN 4-7700-2090-2 (An international haiku saijiki with over 1,000 haiku and senryu from poets in 50 countries covering 680 seasonal topics)
• The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson, Kodansha International © 1996 ISBN 4-7700-1629-8 (a companion book to Haiku World discussing the development of haiku, and the importance of the seasons and kigo to haiku)
• The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share. And Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson with Penny Harter, Kodansha International © 1985. ISBN 4-7700-1430-9

The first place winning haiku in the 13th International Kukai will be displayed as Haiga on the Photo and posted in the blog at the end of the contest by April 30, 2013.


Submission deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4)Thursday, April 4 — Sunday, April 14, 2013.
Voting deadline — Noon, EST, (UTC-4)Sunday, April 14 —Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
Results will be up-loaded to the blog no later than, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.


Participants may submit ONE entry. Submit only the haiku; do not create a haiga entry.

Do NOT enter any haiku previously published, work-shopped or shared.

All haiku entries should remain anonymous until we post the results.

Participants may vote as long as they have submitted an entry to the kukai.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1) Address all Kukai correspondence to: international_kukai@yahoo.com

2) PLEASE use the exact subject "April Submission" for the subject line.

3) Please sign your all submissions, ballots and commiunications with your name, your city, and your country of residence. Examples:

Rita Odeh: Nazareth, Israel (IL)
John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona United States (US)

4) Write your entry in the body of the email. Attachments are not accepted.
5) Haijin who enter the kukai will automatically be sent a ballot with the voting instructions shortly after the kukai closes at noon on the 10th of each month.


Enjoy the new Challenge...!

Co-editors: Rita Odeh and John Daleiden
ro/jd

Results of "Butterfly"International Kukai, March2013

=============================================
First butterfly—
the silence is moving
to another flower

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

# 05. Ed Baker: Takoma Park, Maryland (US)
5 ///2, 1 ,6 =14/// 2nd Place
=============================================
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
=============================================
burning forest—
out of the smoke,
a butterfly

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

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

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

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

# 03. Bernard Gieske: Bowling Green, Kentucky (US)
3 ///0 ,2 ,6 =10/// 6th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
butterflies
the flutter
of my newborn's heart

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

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

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

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

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

# 71. Alegria Imperial: Vancouver, BC, Canada (CA)
71 ///0, 2 ,3= 7/// 9th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
overdue—
butterflies
in her stomach

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

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

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

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

# 115. John Daleiden: Phoenix, Arizona (US)
115/// 1, 0, 3 =6 ///10th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
Coming out
a butterfly expands
its wings

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

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

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

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

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

# 109. John McDonald: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
109 ///0, 1, 3= 5/// 11th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
Buckingham Palace
a monarch butterfly
visiting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

# 73. Ernesto P. Santiago: Philippines (PH)
73/// 0, 1 ,2= 4 ///12th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
Painted Ladies
colors fluttering
from house to house

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

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

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

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

# 101. Maria Santomauro: New York, New York (US)
101 ///1, 0, 0= 3/// 13th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
autumn breeze
a butterfly drifting
out of the garden

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

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

# 43. Dan Iulian: Bucharest, Romania (RO)
43 ///1 ,0, 0= 3/// 13th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
at his grave—
remembering of first
butterflies in the stomach

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

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

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

# 35. Vladimir Ludvig: Zap[resic, Croatia (CR)
35/// 0 ,0 ,2= 2 ///14th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
butterfly wine the whipered music in the willows

# 12. Darrell Lindsey: Nacogdoches, Texas (US)
12/// 0, 1 ,0= 2/// 14th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
hot summer colours
the monarch selects
the orange zinnia

# 04. Elaine Riddell, Hamilton, New Zealand (NZ)
4/// 0 ,1, 0= 2 ///14th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
Butterfly wings
generate
a spring storm

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

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

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

# 97. Seby Lucacs: Dorohoi, Romania (RO)
97 ///0 ,0 ,1= 1/// 15th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
butterfly wings
pinned in the yucca leaves
. . . a dangerous neighbour

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

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

# 64. Jayashree Maniyil: Melbourne, Australia (AU)
64 ///0, 0, 1 =1/// 15th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
a starry night
in the showcase
dead butterflies

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

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

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

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

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

# 07. Maria Kowal-Tomczak: Opole, Poland (PL)
7 ///0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
caterpillar eating non-stop to buttterfly

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

# 17. Peg Duthie: Nashville, Tennessee (US)
17/// 0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
old pond
a butterfly watches
the frog jumping in

# 19. Bernhard Kopf: Vienna, Austria (AT)
19/// 0 ,0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
"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
=============================================
for my niece
a new monarch
tests its balance

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

# 31. Jennifer Thompson: Charles Town, West Virginia (US)
31/// 0, 0 ,0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
spring garden
two butterflies settle
on my cheeks

# 39. Ramesh Anand: Bangalore, India (IN)
39/// 0, 0, 0 =0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
Fluttering softly
over her gravestone;
butterfly tears.

# 50. Debra Beauchamp: Caledonia, Ontario Canada (CA)
50/// 0, 0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
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
=============================================
departure hall
colorful butterflies
wide-spread wings

# 63. Urszula Wielanowska: Kielce, Poland (PL)
63 ///0 ,0, 0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
a jagged sun ray
through the leaves—
scattering butterflies

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

# 75. Sergio Ortiz, San Juan, Puerto Rico (PR)
=============================================
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
=============================================
lonely sunrise—
a butterfly flutters 'round
a marigold

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

# 81. Pat Geyer: East Brunswick, New Jersey, (US)
81/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
Beautiful butterfly takeoff
the goddess of jealousy
is after you

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

# 89. H. Edgar Hiz: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
89 ///0 ,0, 0= 0/// 16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
transgenics
blossoming without
butterflies' kisses

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

# 95. Andrius Luneckas: Vilnius, Lithuania (LT)
95/// 0 ,0 ,0 =0/// 16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
a child flaps her water-wings—
butterfly summer

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

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

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

# 108. Tom Painting: Atlanta, Georgia (US)
108/// 0, 0 ,0= 0 ///16th Place Tie
=============================================
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
=============================================
End of "butterfly" International Kukai March 2013
=============================================




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

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:




=============================================
"butterfly" Ballot:

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

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

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

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

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

# 06.
=============================================
butterfly collection
so lifeless
so beautiful

# 07.
=============================================
lovers whispers—
butterfly antennae
trembling

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

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

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

# 11.
=============================================
butterfly wine the whipered music in the willows

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

# 13.
=============================================
calm dawn
a monarch floats
into autumn

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

# 15.
=============================================
caterpillar eating non-stop to buttterfly

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

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

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

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

# 20.
=============================================
overdue—
butterflies
in her stomach

# 21.
=============================================
butterfly
we do not move
flower and I

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

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

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

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

# 26.
=============================================
big opening
on the red carpet
a butterfly

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

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

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

# 30.
=============================================
butterfly laughter my failed lotus

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

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

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

# 34.
=============================================
pear blossom
trembles of the butterfly
landing

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

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

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

# 38.

=============================================
spring garden
two butterflies settle
on my cheeks

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

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

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

# 42.
=============================================
stolen kiss—
eyelashes butterflies
flutter

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

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

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

# 46.
=============================================
sudden breeze—
my every pansy
a butterfly

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

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

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

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

# 51.
=============================================
a starry night
in the showcase
dead butterflies

# 52.
=============================================
storm clouds
her small hands
cupping a butterfly

# 53.
=============================================
butterfly spring this quiet yellow rain bucket rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

# 60.
=============================================
Painted Ladies
colors fluttering
from house to house

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

# 62.
=============================================
departure hall
colorful butterflies
wide-spread wings

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

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

# 65
=============================================
isolated meadow
two butterflies on her dress
overlooked

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

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

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

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

# 70.
=============================================
butterfly
a whispered breeze
to the bamboo

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

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

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

# 74.
=============================================
This poem was withdrawn by the Author

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

# 77. )
=============================================
spring morning—
where to
butterfly?

# 78.
=============================================
snow melting—
my worries become butterflies
overnight

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

# 80.
=============================================
psyche the soul
flying through life
a butterfly

# 81.
=============================================
heavy sigh
releasing
the butterfly

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

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

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

# 85.
=============================================
bedroom ceiling
blue butterflies
pajamas blue flutter

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

# 87.
=============================================
Buckingham Palace
a monarch butterfly
visiting

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

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

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

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

92.
=============================================
transgenics
blossoming without
butterflies' kisses

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

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

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

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

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

# 98.
=============================================
quarry blast
the yellow butterfly
delays a wingbeat

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

# 100.
=============================================
love flying
in many colors—
butterflies

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

# 102.

=============================================
Coming out
a butterfly expands
its wings

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

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

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

# 106.
=============================================
Butterfly wings
generate
a spring storm

# 107.
=============================================
wind-borne
a butterfly
in the balance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

# 115.
=============================================
End of "butterfly" International Kukai March 2013
=============================================



Co-editors:
Rita Odeh and John Dalieden
ro/jd