The first time I entered the monthly Caribbean Kigo Kukai was in April 2010, and I have only missed a few since then. In February, Gillena Cox held the CKK First Poets’ Choice awards, with 100 of the top three place haiku from kukai spanning the period from April 2009 to September 2011. I am pleased to have had the following four haiku of mine on the ballot, which together garnered 6 votes:
strains of Mendelssohn
the groom fiddles
with his carnation
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after the thunder
stillness…
then birdsong
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twilight shadows–
the flash
of a bluebird’s wing
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kindling the flame–
one candle
lights another
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