Monday, June 30, 2014

CKK #52


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Dear (kuyu) haiku friends, This July our fifty-second kukai.
I have proposed word play as the theme . Since 'word play ' is a theme you can write about it, without using the exact term as given. Send one haiku, written in the style of your choice; via e-mail Have fun, be creative. Enjoy!

Drag Yuh Bow
An interesting folk custom, here in Trinidad and Tobago, more frequent seen nowadays at carnival time, as an icon of traditional mas; but also also very much so prominent in staged folk productions;
is the Tobago speech band. The Speech Bands are most present at The Tobago Heritage Festival, first staged in 1987; It spans a two-week period from mid-July to August, an annual event. The players in A Tobago Speech Band wear ruffled shirts, flamboyant coloured satin pantaloons, stockings, and wire hats, or cork hats ornate with coloured paper streamers, the hats look like ships. Face masques are usually of wire mesh. Their traditional footwear are alpagartas but its not unlikely to see a present day character wearing sandals. They carry sticks which represent swords of Admirals past, in the history of the island. Characters dance a stacco marching movement to background drums and fiddle, criss crossing each other on stage. Out of the march a challenger emerges, goes to the microphone and chants "Drag yuh bow, Mr. Fiddler." the music subsides briefly, and a question is posed. Questions may be of a social and political or even personal nature. and the expectation is that after replying; in return a similar question will be flung back. The music returns in cresendo, after each oration. Questions and answers are commonly posed in comic rhyme so that audiences are throw into fits of laughter. Special to this tradition are the dialect of Tobagonians spiced with a Scottish brouge influenced from land overseers and church missionaries from the nineteenth century; and, the background music of fiddle, flute, and tambrins; a combined harmony of African and British folk rhythms molded to produce a new Tobago sound."(text first published at Sketchbook 4/3 09)

Example:-
rhythm of the drums -
a question answered now
the dancers swagger

--gillena cox


Deadline for sending entries is July 10th 2014
Deadline for sending votes is July 20th 2014

A voting list will be e-mailed to all players

Voting:
Votes to be scored using a total of 6points; voters must use all 6 points
Example:-
Haiku#76………3pts
Haiku#34………2pts
Haiku#8………1pt

the example given is just one of several ways you can allot your points

Comments during voting are encouraged but must be limited to 3 lines. When
published, these comments and votes will be given anonymous listings.
Ballots:(votes and comments) to be sent by e-mail to

The results will be published here at Caribbean Kigo Kukai. After results have been posted, any
comments you wish to make can be posted directly here at the blog just click on comments at the end of the post

much love
gillena

Friday, June 27, 2014

CKK #51 Results



1. None of the comments during the kukai are from the kukai coordinator. Comments and votes of the players are anonymously stated
2. Poems remain the copyright of individual writers

Players: 1. Gheorghe Postelnicu, Romania; 2. Sandi Pray,USA; 3. Ramesh Anand, USA; 4. Archana Kapoor, India; 5. Rita Odeh, Israel; 6. Pat Geyer, USA; 7. Gabriel Sawicki, Poland; 8. Shloka Shankar, India; 9. John McDonald Scotland; 10. Diane Mayr, USA; 11. Daniela Lacramioara, Romania; 12. Keith A. Simmonds France; 13. Claudius Gottstein Germany; 14. Anitha Varma, India; 15. Arvinder Kaur, India; 16. Yesha Shah, India; 17. Lavana Kray, Romania; 18. Richard Jodoin, Canada; 19. Marie-Alice Maire , France; 20. Ingrid Jend, UK; 21. SamarGhose, Australia; 22. Robert Kania, Poland; 23. John Daleiden, USA; 24. Cezar Ciobica,


FIRST PLACE

7
boy in the puddle
splattering around
his own piece of sky
--Gabriel Sawicki (Poland)
Votes: 56**** Points: 17
Comments: 1. A very unique take on the prompt. Really nice image! 2. Beautiful image of determination



SECOND PLACE

24
the splatter of rain...
my father's silence
still smells of war
--Cezar Ciobîca
Votes: 541*** Points: 16
Comments: Very poignant. Well done!



THIRD PLACE

20
splatter of rain
punctuated by the beat
of the cat's tail
--Ingrid Jend; Cambridge, UK
Votes: 531*** Points: 14
Comments: 1. Absolutely loved this! Fantastic! 2.Keep the rhythm kitty



RESULTS CONTINUES

1
unfolding the map -
a black flat bedbug splattered
on the Black Sea coast
sTOPs Romania
Votes: 211*** Points: 07
Comments:


2
a fright of frogs . .
the chill of moonlight
as it splatters
--Sandi Pray,USA
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


3
musical fountain
water splattered its face
with rainbow
--Ramesh Anand, Seattle, USA.
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


4
morning alarm --
splatter of raindrops
on my window
--Archana Kapoor, Nagpal, Bangalore, India
Votes: 411*** Points: 09
Comments:


5
dry day-
splattering his zone,
a hippo
--Rita Odeh, Nazareth, Israel
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:


6
darkness
splatters his gloomy face...
moonlight makes her smile
--Pat Geyer
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:


8
an egg splatters
onto the kitchen floor --
abortion
--Shloka Shankar Bangalore, India
Votes: 52**** Points: 09
Comments: Expression of a great human sorrow by a trivial incident. Touching.


9
cattle
on the highway -
clatter! and splatter!
--John McDonald Edinburgh Scotland
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments: I can hear them and I can smell them. Move, move


10
summer porch...
splatter from the dog's
dripping tongue
--Diane Mayr, writer
Votes: 111*** Points: 06


11
splatter of autumn –
all the mannequins in the window
have umbrellas
--Daniela Lacramioara Capota (Galati, Romania)
Votes: 43**** Points: 10
Comments:


12
traffic speeding by
after a sudden downpour...
splattering water
--Keith A. SIMMONDS Rodez, FRANCE
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


13
chess in the park
polluting rain splatters
the lonely king
--Claudius Gottstein, Borgloh, Germany
Votes: 31**** Points: 05
Comments:


14
traffic jam...
city lights through my
rain-splattered window
--Anitha Varma, Kerala, India.
Votes: 41**** Points: 06
Comments:


15
soap bubbles
on a little girl's palm -
a splatter of rainbows
--Arvinder Kaur,chandigarh,India
Votes: 331*** Points: 12
Comments:


16
dollops of sun
splattered on grey asphalt--
Gulmohar blossoms
--Yesha Shah Surat, India.
Votes: 21**** Points: 04
Comments: Love the transition from 'drab' to 'color'.


17
silent night-
splatter water by the fish
that I throw back in the lack
--Lavana Kray
Votes: 3***** Points: 03
Comments:


18
Pleasant day
kindergarten's kids splatter
the rain
--Richard Jodoin (Montréal, Canada)
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:


19
At the wash house
back to my childhood
splatter of laughs
--Marie-Alice MAIRE, France
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:



21
paint splattered easel
venetians part
a wildflower valley
--Samar Ghose; Australia
Votes: 11**** Points: 03
Comments:


22
a wild duck –
splatter water
after the shot
--Robert Kania, Poland
Votes: 5***** Points: 05
Comments:


23
steaming rain splatters
on pavement raises our hopes--
drought rages on
--John Daleiden, Phoenix, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:



LATE ENTRY
a splatter of mud –
every child imagines
something else
--Tomislav

Sunday, June 1, 2014

CKK #51



Dear (kuyu) haiku friends, welcome back. This June we play our fifty-first kukai. Have fun, be creative. Enjoy!
I have proposed splatter as kigo, so therefore in writing you must use splatter , in your haiku.
Send one haiku, written in the style of your choice; via e-mail

Example:-
dearth of rain -
where ants scurry
first splatter

--gillena cox


Deadline for sending entries is June 10th 2014
Deadline for sending votes is June 20th 2014

A voting list will be e-mailed to all players

Voting:
Votes to be scored using a total of 6points; voters must use all 6 points
Example:-
Haiku#76………3pts
Haiku#34………2pts
Haiku#8………1pt

The example given is just one of several ways you can allot your points

Comments during voting are encouraged but must be limited to 3 lines. When published, these comments and votes will be given anonymous listings.

Ballots:(votes and comments) to be sent by e-mail to

The results will be published here at Caribbean Kigo Kukai. After results have been posted, any comments you wish to make can be posted directly here at the blog just click on comments at the end of the post

much love
gillena