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Announcing April 2008 Kukai For the April 2008 Kukai submit one to three HAIKU using the kigo crane or stork. The exact word(s) must be used in the haiku. No more than a total of three haiku may be submitted. Haiku submitted to the kukai should not be work shopped, appear on-line in forums, or in print. Haiku Author To: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org Subject:April08 crane / stork Kukai Submissions: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 – Sunday, April 20, 2008 Midnight. Voting: Monday, April 21, 2008 – Sunday, April 27, 2008, Midnight. The results will be published in the Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Sketchbook Recent letters to the Sketchbook editors and discussions on various forums indicate that some assumptions about a kukai must be spelled out. From now on (April 1, 2008), Haiku entered in the Sketchbook kukai must be previously unpublished; they must not be workshopped; they must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in print. In short, if the haiku has appeared on the internet or in print we consider it to have been published. The voting in a kukai is anonymous and publication anywhere voids anonyminity. Any haiku found to be previously published will be disqualified.

 

Results of the April 2008 crane / stork Kukai   quiet night folding a mate for my paper crane # 26. Melissa Spurr, US   2 2 2 12 1st Place     spring thaw the stork's reflection from pool to pool # 05. Jacek Margolak, PL   0 4 1 9 2nd Place     Crossing the border between winter and spring, the first flock of storks # 18. Vasile Moldovan, RO   0 2 3 7 3rd Place     paper fan a crane's wings spread wide # 16. Melissa Spurr, US   0 1 2 4 4th Place Tie     out fishing we watch each other crane and I # 22. Rafal Zabratynski, PL 0 2 0 4 4th Place Tie     marsh waters a crane plucks a minnow from itself # 03. Melissa Spurr, US   1 0 0 3 5th Place Tie     Stork with only a leg— a disabled soldier is probed the new artificial limb # 06. Constantin Stroe, RO 1 0 0 3 5th Place Tie     Cranes in the night... the fluttering of their wings dies little by little # 28. Vasile Moldovan, RO 1 0 0 3 5th Place Tie     left behind a trail of paper cranes— 'watch out for your own' # 29. John Daleiden, US 1 0 0 3 5th Place Tie     a muster of white storks circling the newborn's crib— bright pink flight feathers # 32. Karina Klesko, US 0 1 1 3 5th Place Tie     a crane in flight, his neck pointing the way the open road # 09. John Daleiden, US   0 1 0 2 6th Place Tie     spring blast— dancing paper cranes on the thread # 17. Jacek Margolak, PL 0 0 2 2 6th Place Tie     enticing dance of the mating cranes a calypso hip hop # 19. John Daleiden, US 0 1 0 2 6th Place Tie     0 1 0 2 6th Place Tie     The stork’s nest in a pillar top— cars on the road # 20. Magdalena Dale, RO 0 1 0 2 6th Place Tie     haiku class– she folds her homework into cranes # 30. Catherine J.S. Lee, US 0 0 2 2 6th Place Tie     again again a gain                 c               r            a              n                 i                    n              g        her neck among the pussy-willows # 24. Ed Baker, US 0 0 2 2 6th Place Tie     a white stork soaring in the sunlight— shimmering clouds # 02. Keith A. Simmonds, TT   0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     A broken nest— what will the storks believe when coming next spring? # 07. Vasile Moldovan, RO 0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     golden rings promises a thousand cranes # 08. Tracy McPherson, US 0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     same stork re:turning # 14. Ed Baker, US 0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     sedge meadow tour sandhill cranes bow and dance in the pickerel-weed # 21. Catherine J.S. Lee, US 0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     coterie of storks in feats of construction... nest atop a lamppost # 25. Keith A. Simmonds, TT 0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     0 0 1 1 7th Place Tie     olde bird crane-ing his neck as she walks by # 01.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     sandhill cranes sky-high in the blue over desert sand # 04.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     Flocks of cranes in the glow of sunset— a frog's crock # 10.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     the swift strike of a wood stork's bill oyster grass # 11.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     from the very top of the telephone pole stork's clattering # 12.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     wintering in Africa the white stork's flight feather black upon each wing # 13.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     wide wings of wonder illuminating the dawn: storks in the air # 15.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     storks rest along the Nile— thoughts of birthing mothers in the African sun # 23.   0 0 0 0 8th Place Tie     Below is the ballot for the Sketchbook April 2008 “stork / crane" Kukai vote. Please NOTE that the votes should be sent to kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org CALL FOR Sketchbook April 2008 “stork / crane" Kukai vote: Voting: Monday, April 21, 2008 – Sunday, April 27, 2008 1. All the entries are listed on the ballot by number. 2. Only submitting Kukai Poets are eligible to vote. 3. Email your votes to: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org   When voting, please use the words “crane / stork” Kukai in the subject line of your e-mail. 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. You may not cast more than 3 points for any single poem. 5. Please do not vote for your own poem(s). Any such votes will be disqualified. 6. Please use the following format to submit your votes (listing by numerical order, rather than order of preference, as the sample below): To: kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org Subject: “crane / stork” Kukai April 2008  Each voter has 6 points # 03--1 pt. # 11--2 pts. # 28--3 pts. 7. All votes will be compiled and the haiku will then be published in the April 30, 2008 Sketchbook with votes received; on the names of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place etc. poets' names will be revealed. Haiku receiving 0 votes will not have the name of the poet revealed. Poets who want their name revealed regardless of the number of votes received please notify the kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org   The votes will appear as per the following sample: 0 2 7 11 xx Place Tie Which means: No voter gave 3 points, 2 voters gave 2 points, 7 voters gave 1 point = for a total of 11 points CALL FOR Sketchbook April 2008 “stork / crane" Kukai vote: Voting: Monday, April 21, 2008 – Sunday, April 27, 2008