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Results of the July / August 31, 2009 "Cicada"  Kukai
 

 

 

 

Announcing July / August 2009 "cicada" Kukai

The July / August 2009 summer Kukai theme is "cicada" . Use the exact words "cicada"  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: cicada kukai

Submissions: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 – Thursday, August 20, 2009 Midnight.

Voting: Friday, August 21 - Friday, August 28, 2009, Midnight.

The results will be published in the Monday, August 31, 2009 Sketchbook.

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 From now on (April 1, 2008), Haiku entered in the Sketchbook kukai must be previously unpublished; they must not be workshopped; they must not appear on any list, forum, group, blog, or in print.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.
 

 

Twenty-seven Participating Poets included: Nadia Adams, ZA; Robin Beshers, US, Willie Bongcaron, PH; Ralf Bröker, DE; Gillena Cox, TT; John Daleiden, US; Magdalena Dale, RO; Garry Eaton, CA; Bernard Gieske, US; Andrea Gradidge, CA; Mary-Jane Grandinetti, US; Phyllis Jean Green, US; Ignatius Fay, CA; Jens-Chr. Kjaer (Ashi), DK; Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Artur Lewandowski, PL; Darrell Lindsey, US; Tomislav Maretic, (Croatia) RS; Jacek Margolak, PL; John McDonald, UK; Sarah Menefee, US; Aju Mukhopadhyay, IN; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Andrč Surridge, NZ; Barbara Taylor, AU; Saša Važić, (Serbia) RS; Rafal Zabratyniski, PL

Thirteen Participating Countries included: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, New Zealand, Philippians, Poland, Romania, Serbia, South Africa (ZA), United Kingdom, United States

 

 

summer's end
the last cicada call
through the fog

# 17. Jacek Margolak, PL
 
1 5 1 14 1st Place

 

thunder crack
hesitation
in the cicada's song

# 37. André Surridge, NZ
 
0 4 4 12 2nd Place

 

cicadas
deepening
the forest's silence

# 49. John McDonald, UK
 
2 2 1 11 3rd Place

 

cicada song...
my father tells a story
about his childhood

# 36. Jacek Margolak, PL
 
2 1 2 10 4th Place Tie

 

evening concert—
an empty cicada skin
full of moonlight

# 50. Jacek Margolak, PL

1 2 3 10 4th Place Tie

 

pitch black
and all alone
with cicadas

# 48. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 
2 1 0 8 5th Place

 

cicada talk
drowning our conversation
at the beach cafe

# 13. Barbara A. Taylor, AU
 
0 1 4 6 6th Place Tie

 

evening clothesline—
a shadow holds the sound
of cicadas

# 25. Darrell Lindsey, US

1 1 1 6 6th Place Tie

 

just when you think
the cicadas have stopped
they start up again

# 47. Barbara A. Taylor, AU

1 1 1 6 6th Place Tie

 

mid-summer break
the shrill of cicadas
surrounds the school

01. Andrea Gradidge, CA
 
0 2 1 5 7th Place Tie

 

warm twilight
the last cicada
still singing. . .

28. Tomislav Maretic,Croatia

0 2 1 5 7th Place Tie

 

A serenade
played by cicada
to my deaf ear

# 09. Jens-Chr. Kjćr (Ashi), DK
 
1 0 1 4 8th Place Tie

 

first date
cicada and me
seventeen

# 45. Bernard Gieske, US

0 1 2 4 8th Place Tie

 

band of cicadas
in a medley of tunes...
the summer glow

# 06. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 
0 1 1 3 9th Place Tie

 

on the tree bark
a cicada shell
its song remembered

# 07. Bernard Gieske, US

0 1 1 3 9th Place Tie

 

ripples of heat
above the blacktop
cicada song

# 12. Robin Beshers, US

0 1 1 3 9th Place Tie

 

parting
the kingfisher's beak
a cicada

# 20. André Surridge, NZ

0 0 3 3 9th Place Tie

 

before the storm—
cicadas are silent
in the olive grove

# 21. Krzysztof Kokot, PL

0 1 1 3 9th Place Tie

 

So many stars…
alone at my window listening
to the cicada’s chorus

# 23. Magdalena Dale, RO
 
0 0 2 2 10th Place Tie

 

scent of pine
cicadas fill
the silence

# 32. Robin Beshers, US

0 0 2 2 10th Place Tie

 

a symphony
those hidden cicadas
and whistling kettle

# 34. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH

0 1 0 2 10th Place Tie

 

cicada call—
turns him into an
insomniac

# 05. Nadia Adams, South Africa (ZA)
 
0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

mating season
cicadascicadasci
cadascicadas

# 24. Rafal Zabratynski, PL

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

cicada and drums
echo in the desert night—
the shaman gestures

# 26. John Daleiden, US

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

at the waterfall
trees rain down
cicada trills

# 30. Bernard Gieske, US

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

midsummer day
the heat resounds
with cicadas

# 41. Rafal Zabratynski, PL

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

the sound of gusle
through the ancient woods—
the ci... ci... ci... of a cicada

# 46. Saša Važic, Serbia

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

cicada song the pulse of summer

# 51. André Surridge, NZ

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

summer morning
tapping in the leaves
rain or cicadas?

# 52. Mary-Jane Grandinetti, USA

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

driving along the highway
as if one cicada—
the sound from each tree

# 53. Mary-Jane Grandinetti, USA

0 0 1 1 11th Place Tie

 

pair of cicadas
light on my denim pant-leg
and commence to mate

# 02.
 
0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

golden-eyed cicada
stepped out of its skin
into the great cry

03.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

take care, cicada—
a praying mantis listens
to your song

04.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

a long journey
to my sick old mother
is it only one ci... ci... ci... cicada?

# 08.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

hesitating woodwinds
and stage whispers
cicadas

# 10.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

the farm near Woodstock
how loud cicadas
are singing here

# 11.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

full moon
cicadas crowd the night
with their chirps

# 14.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

never ceasing
the cicada racket—
no off to click

# 15.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

evening stroll—
cicada:
day-darkener

# 16.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

a lonely drive
to Mathura
cicada songs

# 18.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

picket line the honeydew of a cicada

#19.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

fleeing from it,
a childhood memory—
cicada

# 22.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

dark forest floor
waxy indian pipe
—cicadas swarm

# 27.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

in the still of night
the cacophony of sounds:
a cicada

# 29.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

the owl woods left behind—
a cicada's ci... ci... ci...
almost easing my pain

# 31.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

evening stroll—
a shadowy walk
with cicadas

# 33.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

improvising
with the stream:
cicadas' chirupping

# 35.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's wife—
concert of cicadas

# 38.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

it whirls
with a serious look—
fearful cicada

# 39.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

The starry night…
cicada with a song
near my sadness

# 40.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

tear-drop bead of sweat
at the tip of her nose
cicada bothers

# 42.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

a sleepy cicada
flees from the olive tree—
oh, those lovers!

43.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

cicadas in a
summer evening of magic...
a symphony

# 44.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

digging a hole
to remove the dead dahlia—
cicada grub

# 54.

0 0 0 0 12th Place Tie

 

Hello Haiku Poet,

Below is the ballot for the Sketchbook July / August 2009 “cicada” Kukai vote.

Please NOTE that the votes should be sent to kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org

CALL FOR Sketchbook July / August 2009 “cicada” Kukai vote:
Voting: Friday, August 21, 2009 – Friday, August 28, 2009, Midnight.


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 “cicada" 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: “cicada" Kukai Vote

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 Monday, August 31, 2009 Sketchbook with votes received; on
the names of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, etc. place poets' names will
be revealed. Haiku receiving 0 votes will be published without
names. If you want your name revealed regardless of the number
of votes received please notify the kukaieditor@poetrywriting.org
with the submission of your votes

The votes will appear as per the following sample:

0 2 7 11 = ____ Place

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 July / August 2009 “cicada” Kukai vote:
Voting: Friday, August 21, 2009 – Friday, August 28, 2009, Midnight.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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