haikuworld: The Shiki Monthly Kukai (January 2004 Results)

In the listing below, after each poem the author is listed, and then a three digit code revealing how many 3-point, 2-point, and 1-point points were cast for this poem by the other participating poets.

(214 = 12) would indicate that the poem above received two 3-point votes, one 2-point vote, and four 1-point votes.

January 2004 Kukai Results
Kigo Theme: Winter	Free Format Theme: Office
1st Place winter branch the sparrow's roundness in the wind Martin Cohen 387 = 32 pts 2nd Place winter-- sipping tea alone oga 243 = 17 pts 3rd Place this poem was shared on a mailing list- -- withdrawn XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX 4th Place winter storm - the cat bats a grape around the living room Earl Keener 142 = 13 pts this poem was shared on a mailing list -- withdrawn XXXX X XXXXX XXXXXXXX winter beach . . . a wave takes back his name Kathy Lippard Cobb 126 = 13 pts 5th Place - Tie winter chill - my pale shadow follows my dog Grzegorz Sionkowski 124 = 11 pts winter without a sound the moon rising Michael Baribeau 035 = 11 pts 6th Place winter night a soft whisper from my summer love Carol Raisfeld 123 = 10 pts 7th Place winter stars snow flakes swirl past the masthead light Darrell Byrd 033 = 9 pts 8th Place cold winter night ~ between husbands i push up the thermostat -roberta beary 023 = 7 pts winter jacket - a handful of change in the pocket - ushi 015 = 7 pts 9th Place winter vacation the shadow of a note under the professor's door c. lee robinson 030 = 6 pts 10th Place winter stars . . . the burn of below zero on bare hands Marjorie Buettner 021 = 5 pts winter wind school children breath into their mittens Carmel C. Lively 110 = 5 pts winter mist- sky and earth meld into gray Mary Lee McClure 013 = 5 pts winter's kiss-- a chilly snowflake wets chapped lips Flatline 013 = 5 pts sparrows huddle deep inside the evergreen - winter residence Angie Kunath 021 = 5 pts winter wind... the builders unpack new doors Hugh Waterhouse 013 = 5 pts 11th Place winter new child warms up our house john tiong chunghoo 020 = 4 pts winter wind - horses covered with blankets in front of an inn Dubravko Marijanovic 012 = 4 pts winter frost dawn light reveals a hundred webs Sue 004 = 4 pts Winter bus queue warming her hands in my coat ... central heating acdm 012 = 4 pts winter dawn -- past the green light only fog Nancy Smith 020 = 4 pts one bad pass and the season is over-- long winter ahead -- oino sakai 020 = 4 pts bitter winter grandmother's windowpanes icing over. Zaida Lysle 101 = 4 pts 12th Place	1st Place: home office each child's height marked on the door frame Carol Raisfeld 196 = 27 pts 2nd Place morning quiet - the smell of coffee in the office RB 1,3,10 = 19 pts 3rd Place casual Friday : the office temp's purple Mohawk - ushi 241 = 15 pts office lunch-break - a dozen different screensavers Richard Goring 055 = 15 pts 4th Place basement office-- a drawing of a window full of sun Marjorie Buettner 232 = 14 pts office tension -- a fly at the window keeps buzzing Zhanna P. Rader 135 = 14 pts 5th Place office window . . . the street lights turn on another night Darrell Byrd 213 = 11 pts 6th Place walk to the office - the streetlights go out one by one Horst Ludwig 025 = 9 pts 7th Place muggy afternoon - only the fly awake in his office Carole MacRury 113 = 8 pts 8th Place at first light quiet moments in office before the day's din Hazel 112 = 7 pts new doctor's office this month's magazines in the waiting room Owen Burkhart 015 = 7 pts psychiatrist's office not even one small window Ed Markowski 015 = 7 pts 9th Place retirement shade covers his office window w.f. owen 111 = 6 pts office to office the line runs between the toes of resting blackbirds Mark Hollingsworth 022 = 6 pts new office-- in someone else's trash the dead plant Sue 022 = 6 pts office bonsai on the windowsill cityscape Allen McGill 022 = 6 pts still at the office: kukai entry scribbled in my Planner -- oino sakai 014 = 6 pts 10th Place home office afternoon sunlight kisses the desktop Audrey Downey 102 = 5 pts blast furnace heat sparks catch me daydreaming of an office job Joshua Gage 102 = 5 pts night in office -- answering machine says you should be home Olga Hooper 102 = 5 pts office temple desktop zen garden with plastic rakes. Zaida Lysle 110 = 5 pts 11th Place home office alphabetizing haiku of last year Cornelia 020 = 4 pts office clock fifty caring souls check the batteries Kylie Hooklyn 020 = 4 pts the smell of marijuana drifts through the window -- lawyer's office Earl Keener 012 = 4 pts

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