May Kukai

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

May 2003 Kukai Results
Kigo Theme: Morning Fog	Free Format Theme: Garden
First Place - 21 points morning fog the creak of boats at anchor OwenB (239 = 21) Second Place - 14 points morning fog the sound the river makes when I close my eyes Marjorie Buettner (240 = 14) Third Place - 12 points Gettysburg-- a stone hand reaches through morning fog Earl Keener (125 = 12) first day of school -- the bus slowly taken by the morning fog Peter H. Pache (214 = 12) Fourth Place - 10 points morning fog my father asks me who i am roberta beary (204 = 10) morning fog street lamps still in cocoons Elaine King (018 = 10) morning fog the muffled horn precedes the ferry celia crook (018 = 10) Fifth Place - 9 points morning fog our initials traced on the mirror deborah russell (017 - 9) Sixth Place - 7 points morning fog village roofs floating above the cloud Audrey Downey (031 = 7) morning fog-- finally I find my glasses Linda P (015 = 7) morning fog softer the sound of the frogs mike farley (023 = 7) morning fog - larksong and the tang of broken ferns Jon Davey (120 = 7) Seventh Place - 6 points morning fog a lace over budding sakura john tiong chunghoo (014 = 6) morning fog. . . before our second wave he is gone sheila windsor (022 = 6) morning fog in the fly rod's arch a cloud of mayflies Edward (014 = 6) morning fog a marsh willow drips in the dead calm Carol Raisfeld (014 = 6) bay bridge misty spans pin down the morning fog Darrell Byrd (022 = 6) alone at the wheel shore lights emerging from morning fog Ellen Compton (022 = 6) Eighth Place - 5 points behind the fog more fog this autumn morning r.wilson (021 = 5) hot green tea - rice paper shutters open to early morning fog Lynette Arden (005 = 5) morning fog - recognizing my cherry-tree by blackbird's song Tom (013 = 5) view from the train -- slums cleansed and mysterious in morning fog Nancy Smith (013 = 5) morning fog a cardinal stirs in the willows Rosa Velt (005 = 5) Ninth Place - 4 points morning fog my letter of forgiveness to father still blank sprite (020 = 4) morning fog-- the call of birds whose names I don't know Kathy Lippard Cobb (101 = 4) morning fog thickens mashed potatoes and gravy from the autumn night Judi Honiker (101 = 4) morning fog a bird song breaks the stillness mary duggan (012 = 4) morning fog dogs bark here and there Tore Sverredal (004 = 4) Tenth Place - 3 points I sit with coffee as the morning fog lifts from fencepost tulips Zaida Lysle (011 = 3) this morning stealthily stealing tree-trunks in village orchard Ruzica (011 = 3) morning fog glimpses of a whale offshore Deborah P Kolodji (003 = 3) morning fog-- birdsongs sound gently muffled Mary Lee McClure (100 = 3) Low morning fog... the moon floats from pine to pine along the road Zhanna P. Rader (003 = 3) driveway paper lost in morning fog -- red peonies Ann K. Schwader (011 = 3)	First Place - 18 points garden sculptures children strike poses near a sunlit wall Allen McGill (058 - 18) Second Place - 16 points prison garden; the sunflowers almost as tall as the fence Claire Murray (129 = 16) Third Place - 13 points summer garden-- frog and stone bathed in moonlight sheila Windsor (045 = 13) Fourth Place - 11 points stripping the garden of its withered blooms summer wind Kate Creighton (035 = 11) Fifth Place - 10 points scent garden ~ a blind man makes a bee line to the lavender patch sprite (131 = 10) public garden among the roses people bowing Elaine King (026 = 10) Sixth Place - 9 points silk flowers the neighbor's garden same as last year OwenB (017 = 9) may morning a pine tree shadow cuts the garden in two DeVar (106 = 9) Seventh Place - 8 points weed garden -- the widower's tattered coat mike farley (032 = 8) Eigth Place - 7 points newly single i restructure our garden roberta beary (112 = 7) alzheimer's his vegetable garden not forgotten celia crook (015 = 7) cascading over the garden wall pink bougainvilleas mary duggan (112 = 7) Ninth Place - 6 points hoe stopped - a new warbler singing in the garden Tom (103 = 6) topiary cat in the public garden a stray lifts his leg Nancy Smith (022 = 6) mother's garden~ her criticism hovers with every flower i tend Pamela A. Babusci (103 = 6) rejected tomato left in the garden busy flies oino sakai (014 = 6) ceiling shadows ... a spray of stars on the garden pond Carol Raisfeld (111 = 6) desert garden spring tomatoes among winter chard Darrell Byrd (111 = 6) Rain-fresh garden... my autumn work bursts into tulips Zhanna P. Rader (103 = 6) he picks a rose from her mother's garden first date Deborah P Kolodji (006 = 6) Tenth Place - 5 points early may walk behind those high garden walls the lilacs bloom Edward (102 = 5) bursting with wild poppies - her rock garden Carole MacRury (005 = 5) Eleventh Place - 4 points garden party a desert scorpion enters uninvited Carmel C. Lively (012 = 4) Twelfth Place - 3 points Leave my garden now, aphid! ladybug's coming r.wilson (011 = 3) spring garden the squirrel digs another hole Martin Gottlieb Cohen (003 = 3) yesterday garden full of life and color seldom blooms now Zaida Lysle (011 = 3) garden swings swaying to and fro summer breezes Leslie Leon (011 = 3) spring morn -- smell of turned soil old garden Peter H. Pache (003 = 3) garden statue a king snake slithers into the brush Kathy Lippard Cobb (011 = 3) in our garden a hummingbird arrives with the landscape crew Joann (011 = 3) window garden on the pansy's face a shaft of sunlight Betty (011 = 3) at the garden gate beams red roses and romance beneath moonlit glow Judi Honiker (100 = 3) first radish -- garden dirt on my fingers almost warm Ann K. Schwader (011 = 3) mossy garden-- the peacock shows his tail Mary Lee McClure (003 = 3) garden's edge - the cat eyeing a crow Jon Davey (011 = 3) garden party laughter tumbles along a honeysuckle breeze soji (011 = 3)

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