
Results of the "spring dream(s)"
March / April 2009 Kukai
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Announcing
"spring dream(s)" April 2009 Kukai
The April 2009 Kukai theme is
"spring dream(s)". Use the exact words "spring
dream(s)"
in the haiku. No more
than a total of three haiku may be submitted. Haiku
submitted to the kukai should not be workshopped, appear
on-line in forums, or in print.
Haiku
Author,
Country
To:
kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
Subject:"spring dreams" kukai
Submissions:
Sunday, March 01, 2009 – Saturday, April 18, 2009 Midnight.
Voting: Sunday,
April 19 - Sunday, April 26, 2009,
Midnight.
The results will
be published in the Thursday, April 30, 2009
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kukai must be previously unpublished; they must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
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42 Participating Kukai Poets
Barbara
Anderson, US; Raquel D. Bailey, JM; Ed Baker, US; Robin
Beshers, US; Gerry Bravi, CA; Daniela Bullas, UK; John Carley,
UK; Gillena Cox, TT; Martin Cohen, US; Magdalena Dale, RO;
John Daleiden, US; Mary Davila, US; Andrzej Dembończyk, PL:
Garry Eaton, CA; Victor P. Gendrano, US; Harvey Jenkins, CA;
Manu Kant, IN; Bill Kenney, US; Klesko Karina, US; Krzysztof
Kokot, PL; Catherine J. S. Lee, US; Robert Lucky, CN; Jacek
Margolak, PL; Ioan Marinescu-Puiu, RO; K. A. Martin, CA; John
McDonald, UK; Tracy McPherson, US; Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; Bill
Pauly, US; Zhanna P. Rader, US; Terrie Leigh Relf, US; Keith
A. Simmonds, TT; William Sorlien, US; Cris Staubach, US; Kim
Tairi, AU; Barbara A. Taylor, AU; John Thompson, US; Jennie
Townsend, US; Eric V. (El Coyote), US; Ella Wagemakers, NL;
Sheila Windsor, UK; Eiko Yachimoto, JP
12 Participating Countries
Australia,
Canada, China, India, Jamaica, Japan, Netherlands, Poland,
Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States
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first spring dream
in the icicles
rainbow colors
# 20.
Jacek Margolak, PL
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spring dreams
a street sweeper's brushes
fill with blossoms
# 92. John
Thompson, US
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spring dreams
a tortoise with blossoms
on her feet
# 08.
Sheila Windsor, UK
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spring dreams
in the moon’s soft glow
five silver koi
# 38.
Barbara
Anderson,
US
tracing
the moon
with my finger…
spring dreams
# 62.
Robin Beshers, US
spring
dreams
she can't keep
herself from blooming
# 102.
Bill Pauly, US
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spring dreams
—a floral pattern
embroidered on her night gown
# 41.
Eric V. (El Coyote), US
spring
dreams the chimney stack blooms by my door
# 44.
Sheila Windsor,
UK
daybreak
from a crack in the darkness
spring dreams
# 48. Bob
Lucky, CN
spring
dream
I seize the sunbeam
in my palms
# 82.
Jacek Margolak, PL
spring
dream . . .
the neighbor's lawn filled
with dandelions
# 101.
Bill Pauly, US
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the
first rain
tickling my nose
spring dreams
# 01.
Barbara
Anderson,
US
spring
dreams—
the taste of tear drops
on my tongue
# 16. John
Carley,
UK
a child
forming in her womb—
spring dreams
# 66. John
Daleiden, US
pregnant
with a book of names spring dreams
# 73.
Sheila Windsor,
UK
Spring
dreams
we let the seedlings
be for awhile
# 84.
Jennie
Townsend,
US
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spring
dreams
my granddaughter holds on
to my fingers
# 09. Ella
Wagemakers, NL
spring dreams
the budding poplar laces
the blue sky
# 13. Martin
Cohen, US
chance gentle
brush
of her budding breasts
teen's spring dreams
# 25. Victor
P.
Gendrano, US
an empty barn
we listen for the echoes
of old spring dreams
# 65. Garry
Eaton, CA
spring dreams
the rain dimples
the pond
# 77. Bob
Lucky, CN
she chooses
carefully
from the seed catalogue
spring dreams
# 83. Victor
P.
Gendrano, US
spring dreams
one less daffodil
in her garden
# 93. Mary
Davila, US
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where
seagulls fly . . .
in a world without borders
spring dreams
# 30. Karina
Klesko, US
spring
dreams—
in diplomatic pouches
thoughts of world peace
# 37. John
Daleiden, US
Spring Dream
waking me up
"are we still friends?"
# 72. Ed
Baker, US
he offers tea
to clear my head
spring dreams
# 75. Terrie
Leigh Relf (AKA semi), US
waiting for
the lilac to bloom . . .
spring dreams
# 96.
Catherine J. S. Lee, US
spring dreams
her thigh slowly stretching
beyond the warm duvet
# 97. K. A.
Martin, CA
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fragrant daffodils
blanket the hillside—spring dreams
carried on the breeze
# 14. Kim
Tairi, AU
spring dream—
your tulips and my cheeks
share the same blaze of color
# 15. Daniela
Bullas,
UK
in the snow,
a white crocus blooming—
spring dreams!
# 17. Cris
Staubach, US
Spring
dreams—
will the two floating clouds
unite?
# 27. Zhanna
P.
Rader, US
sleepless . .
.
spring dreams
on the ceiling
# 28. Bill
Kenney, US
In a spring
dream
a scarecrow gathers the rags
around it's body
# 47. Ioan
Marinescu-Puiu, RO
frisky
prancing birds
flirting—sing of jewel-lined nests
spring dreams and promises
# 50. Kim
Tairi, AU
spring dreams
a child in his papa’s shoes
trips…
# 53. Manu
Kant, IN
spring
dreams...
my coffee
cooler and cooler
# 54. Jacek
Margolak, PL
with its
offering abundant
dream spring recurs every year—
how can the haggard welcome it?
# 64. Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN
re-reading
an old postcard—
spring dreams
# 70. Eric V.
(El Coyote), US
spring dreams
a blackbird zooms by
twigs in its beak
# 74. Ella
Wagemakers, NL
spring dreams
. . .
the feel of garden earth
between my fingers
# 91.
Catherine J. S. Lee, US
spring dreams
the scent of lilacs
awaken her
# 95. Mary
Davila, US
summer
solstice
the procrastinator's
spring dreams
# 99. Bill
Pauly, US
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spring
dream—
where he sneezed
daffodils opened
# 03 Gillena
Cox, TT
the Cubbies
begin
another baseball season
spring dreams
# 06. Harvey
Jenkins, CA
my daughter
asleep
in the next room
spring dreams
# 10.
Terrie Leigh Relf (AKA semi), US
frozen again
ice in the dog dish—
spring dreams
# 18. Barbara
A. Taylor, AU
So many
petals
crushed under feet…
spring dreams
# 22.
Magdalena Dale, RO
Crocus
in snow
spring dreams
# 23. Tracy
McPherson, US
spring dreams
fly
flowers around my hat
feet in the puddle
# 31.
Krzysztof Kokot, PL
a child's
spring dreams
pause at the mystery
of a street excavation
# 35.
Garry Eaton, CA
apricot
blossoms
on the garden tiles
...spring dreams
# 45. Ella
Wagemakers, NL
spring dreams
in the shower
cleaning groud
# 46. Terrie
Leigh Relf (AKA semi), US
spring
dreams—
how strong the stirring
in my gut
# 51. John
Carley,
UK
in dappled
woods
picking primroses—
spring dreams
# 52. Barbara
A Taylor, AU
A ray of sun
on a ruined fence—
spring dream
# 55.
Magdalena Dale, RO
that old urge
to be found...
Spring dreams
# 57. Jennie
Townsend, US
spring dreams
street people relocate
to the river front
# 60. Karina
Klesko, US
the end
spring dreams
clinched with sharp pins
dead butterfly
# 61.
Krzysztof Kokot, PL
at the tulip
fair
holding the first prize sticker
its just spring dreams
# 69 Gillena
Cox, TT
In the spring
dream
the icicles have began
their very short travel
# 76. Ioan
Marinescu-Puiu, RO
laze away the
hazy mazy morning
of spring dreams
# 79. John
Carley,
UK
spring
dreams—
on a blackened stump
sprouts from sap
# 80. Barbara
A Taylor, AU
spring dreams
all day long temple beggars
waiting for alms
# 81. Manu
Kant, IN
Cancer—
spring dreams
no more.
# 85. Zhanna
P.
Rader, US
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beacon
of peace
in the fountain of love...
spring dreams
# 02.
beacon of peace
in the fountain of love...
spring dreams
# 02.
dreams—
passing rain clouds
look like poppies
# 04.
spring dreams
clouds conceal
the moon
# 05.
spring dream(s)
awakening
incredible lust
# 07.
Within the spring
dreams
under a carpet of leaves
the little mushrooms
# 11.
spring dream
the silence of the neighbor’s
caged bulbul
# 12.
spring dreams
maniac staring out a window
wants to fly
# 19.
spring dreams—
I hang on the tree
nesting box
# 21.
Spring dreams
oozing up through prairie mud
bits of green
# 24.
Spring dreams
oozing up through prairie mud
bits of green
# 24.
spring dreams—
the plant light imitates
the sun
# 29.
sudden downpour
...
it rains on my
spring dreams
# 32.
spring: dreams
daffodils
and crocuses
# 33.
margosa and mango
flowery fragrance spread—
dream spring nostalgic
# 34.
lingering spring
dreams.....rafts of blossoms
in a stream..... to a deep cove
# 36.
spring dreams
for the brotherhood of man:
oasis of time
# 39.
a kite soars
to planet venus—v
spring dream
# 40.
on an unmarked
grave
daffodils wait out the night
spring dreams
# 42.
Old Bonze
basking in
Spring Dream
# 43.
buffeted by snow
all winter long
spring dreams
# 56.
Gusty wind
carries away the plum petals,
my spring dreams.
# 58.
spring dreams
filled with blossom scents—
a garden path
# 59.
pansies
in a pot—
spring dreams
# 63.
a woodpecker
on the stone half-wall
gone to soon…spring dreams
# 67.
hearts throbbing
with new resolutions...
a spring dream
# 68.
missing glove
found
at the bottom of the wood pile
spring dream
# 71.
spring dreams
forgotten
as fire consumes bushland
screaming wildlife flees
# 78.
in the air spring
dreams
they're run on green meadows
shepard's dogs
# 86.
chocolate bunnies—
spring dreams
come true
# 87.
spring dreams:
swan
warming her eggs
# 88.
new twigs leaves
buds
flowers abundant colour,
brighten dream spring
# 89.
the laden bees
work magic in the sleepy cherries
spring dreams
# 90.
spring dream–
awakening to real
robin-song
# 94.
by the willow tree
fireflies at war with stars
... spring dream
# 98.
spring dreams
images of blossoms
filling up my inbox
# 100.
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