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Sixth Place -- 10 Points
lalique hummingbird--
a thousand pieces
of scattered sun
Kathy Lippard Cobb
feb2003
(1,3,1) = 10
What I liked about this one was the fact that it provided a beautiful image combined with an awesome metaphore. This one was very well written. A thousand pieces of scattered sun how beautiful is that.
Zaida Lysle
My preference for # 39 is because the theme, the hummingbird, is beautifully connected with an item of Western art - or handicraft - the coloured glasses created by Lalique so there is an allusion from bird to glass, or vice versa. I think this is rather rare in Western haiku and all the more admirable because of that. As I have never seen a humming-bird live, only on photos, I like this visual help to imagine it properly as stained glass is something I am well acquainted with. The reference would have been easier to pick up if the name had been spelled normally, with a capital L.
Florence Vilén
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