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Hunt Kigo

The December 2006 Kukai is the all winter kigo, hunt. Haiku submitted for this kukai must contain the word "hunt, hunts, hunting, or hunter" on any of the three lines. Haiku were submitted from December 1 – 18 (Monday) 2006; voting was held from December 19-24 (Saturday) 2006. Each voter has 6 points. No one may vote for their own poem.  Vote Count example: 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.

The results are published below in the December 30, 2006 Sketchbook.
 

 

 

 
First Place Winner

full moon
a lamp for the hunter
and the hunted
 
Karina Klesko
# 26. 2 3 1 = 13      

 

 


Second Place Winner

hunting through boxes
I find photos of mother
after the funeral

John Daleiden
# 14. 1 3 0 = 9      
 

 

 


Third Place Winner

hunting season—
he carries with him
only a camera

Zhanna P. Rader
# 16. 0 3 2 = 8    
 

 

 


4th Place Winner

full Hunter's moon—
yesterday's snow reveals
a fox's path

Zhanna P. Rader
# 04. 0 2 2 = 6     
 

 

 


5th Place

nocturnal hunter....
silently watching
darkness in motion

Shanna Baldwin Moore
# 21. 0 1 3 = 5
 

 

 


6th Place

in the forest
with his mushroom sniffing pig
hunting together

Betty Kaplan
# 13.  0 1 1 = 3
 

 

 


7th Place

new snowfall
swans hunt for
scattered grain

Trish Shields
# 07.   0 0 2 = 2

 

 

Orion in the eastern sky
hunting for
the southern cross

Shanna Baldwin Moore
# 09.  0 1 0 = 2

 

 

hunting for love...
she wears
her heart on her sleeve

Shanna Baldwin Moore
# 17.  0 0 2 = 2

 

 

hunting is banned
in favour of tourism—
happy cannibals

Daniela Bullas
# 18.  0 1 0 = 2

 

 

hunters—
the new snowfall hides
the swans

Trish Shields
# 22.  0 0 2 = 2

 

 

“snipe, snipe, snipe”,
intone the three hunters—
an owl hoots

John Daleiden
# 24.   0 1 0 = 2
 

 

 


8th Place

oh dear, where are they?
I hunt for my glasses
hmmm, on my head

Betty Kaplan
# 01.  0 0 1 = 1

 

 

all the contestants
are wearing hunter costumes:
amateur skeet meet

Cristian Mocanu
# 05.  0 0 1 = 1

 

 

calling the shots on
former royal hunting grounds:
a screaming pheasant

Cristian Mocanu
# 20.  0 0 1 = 1
 

 

 


9th Place

no food in the house
to share—the hunter brought in
a half-dead mouse

Daniela Bullas
# 02.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

As the hunter smiles,
trembling in shock—body shattered,
a deer lies dying.

Laroque
# 03.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

hunting—
an owl's
haunting hoots

Zhanna P. Rader
# 06.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

Identity hunt—
I bunt the transparent ball
into the soulnet

Rita Odeh
# 08.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

poor little squirrel
hunting for the place
he hid his acorns

Betty Kaplan
# 10.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

in winter snow
the barn owl hunts prey
three wisemen bear gifts

John Daleiden
# 11.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

watching the FOX news—
hounds love hunting in the snow
brown boxing hares

Daniela Bullas
# 12.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

greyhounds have a rest—
their masters' pre-hunt lunch
is just stewed cabbage

Cristian Mocanu
# 15.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

three swans
leave the empty field—
hunting

Trish Shields
# 19.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

The joy of hunting,
is tastier than falling
in her love

Rita Odeh
# 23.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

flowers spring
beneath a hunter's heels
the past now changed

Karina Klesko
# 25.  0 0 0 = 0

 

 

 


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