Now that I’m doing two poetry challenges a week, and participating in two monthly kukai and one bi-monthly kukai, deadlines roll around pretty regularly. So I was actually taken by surprise Sunday, when I checked my BlackBerry and found out my haiku had won the July Shiki Monthly Kukai, in the free format section! The subject was “anything quirky”. I can do “quirky”.
night sky —
my thumb
eclipsing the moon
Read all of the haiku here.
Prose Posies 
Cara, I’m not surprised in the least that there are those out there who recognize your haiku as award-winning. Excellent, excellent, excellent!
Thank you, Marie Elena. What I especially like about the kukai is that they are peer review contests, so only the haikuists submitting entries that month get to vote. And in this particular kukai, I get to read and think about 200+ haiku each month, each based on same kigo or subject. It never fails to amaze me how much can be said in so few words!