The results of the February Shiki Kukai have just been posted to the Shiki Kukai archives. The kigo topic was “withered plants” and the free format topic was “cover”.
a robin’s remains
beneath the bramble
chill wind
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early dusk –
slipping between the covers
of my favorite book
The January 2013 Shiki Kukai free format topic was “window”.
waiting room
looking out through
rain-streaked windows
The rest of the entries can be read in the Shiki archives.
The January 2013 Shiki Kukai kigo topic was “first calm”.
quiescent moon
I finish sorting
her last box of papers
The rest of the entries can be read in the Shiki archives.
snow flurries
a fresh batch
of resolutions
— Cara Holman
Shiki Kukai, January 2012
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bootsoles
clapping together
another snowstorm
— Jenny Ward Angyal
Magnapoets 7, Jan. 2011
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winter darkness
we run out
of subjects to change
Seánan Forbes
Modern Haiku 43:3
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New Year’s Day
the dragon tattoo
red and puffy
— Peter Newton
The Language of Dragons, ed. by Aubrie Cox
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my mother
did she realize the power
of her words?
beneath snowy pines
forgiveness begins
—Pamela A. Babusci
Multiverses Issue 1 2012
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first snow –
that moment just before
Eating Honey
— angie werren
*NaHaiWriMo (December, 2011)
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icy breaths –
half my life spent
reliving the past
— S.M. Abeles
World Haiku Review (December 2012),
2nd place, Neo-Classical category
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large flakes of snow the silence of pines
— Lauren Mayhew
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snowflakes…
a white mare’s whinny
lifts a cloud
— Polona Oblak
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appreciating
second chances
bare branches
— Sandi Pray
see haiga here
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epiphany–
a gift bag of needles
under the tree
Margaret Dornaus
Acorn, no. 27, Fall 2011
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crumbling brickwork
echoes across the canal . . .
with every bridge
I renew my faith
in a boundless sky
— Kirsten Cliff
‘Forever Home’ (with Margaret Dornaus)
LYNX 27:3, October 2012
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with time served
only a couple of days –
prison yard snow
— Johnny Baranski
(from my tri-fold “First Snow” a Teahouse Pamphlet 2003)
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another new year
I take with me the scent
of Christmas memories
— Christine L. Villa
creekside departure . . .
wet stardust falling
from a swan’s wings
— Kathy Uyen Nguyen
My origami haiga here
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snow flurries
her last
wheezy breath
— Jone MacCulloch
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first snow
still we find
the gaps
— Alegria Imperial
from a haiga published at NTFG 3:3 December 2011
see haiga here
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*this is a “pooh-ku” — based on this A.A. Milne quote:
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.” ~angie werren
Shiki Kukai, January 2012
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
I write a surprising number of haiku about spiders, although the prompt for this one was actually “weaving”. Share a haiku about gardens, spiders, weaving, dew, or webs.
garden spider –
weaving the dew
into its web
1st place, Shiki Kukai, November 2010
“haiku Wall” at the Quarterly HSA Meeting
in Bend, Oregon, June 3-5, 2011
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
How about a romance, or any kind of relationship, even one that has gone sour. Or the ocean, moonlight, or the color blue again. Or any color eyes.
the ocean
bathed in moonlight
his deep blue eyes
Shiki Kukai, July 2012
“Sea Bandits” edited by Aubrie Cox, Sept. 2012
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
I think it’s high time for a moon ku. The prompt for this one was actually “anything quirky”.
night sky –
my thumb
eclipsing the moon
1st place, Shiki Kukai, July 2010
3rd place, Shiki Kukai 8th Annual Poets’ Choice Kukai
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
It’s always fun to take part in the Shiki Annual Poets’ Choice Kukai. For the 3rd year in a row, I’ve had a haiku in the contending. It had very special meaning to me this time around that my haiku tied for 3rd place in the kigo category, as I was visiting California and staying just miles from where my parents are buried when the results came out. It is always bittersweet to visit California, but on the balance, I’d say I’ve had more good times than bad ones over the years I spent either living or just visiting there.
lingering cold
the long ride home
from the cemetery
The full set of results can be read here.
The September Shiki Kukai kigo was “drought” and the free format topic was “cloud shapes”. These were my haiku:
empty sky
the long low whistle
of a passing train
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painted over graffiti
on the sidewalk
striated clouds
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