Indian kukai January 2014

Indian kukai # 3 - call for entries has been posted.
This month the contest is being hosted by Kashinath Karmakar (Kash Poet) and yours truly and all you amazing poets are cordially invited.

Please check our blog (the link below) for the theme and further guidelines on how to participate.
http://www.indiankukai.blogspot.in/

Coming soon...

the third edition of Indian kukai  brought to you by the IN haiku group.

The kukai had gone international in the last edition with participation from 12 countries and we are hoping that all you haiku poets from around the world will continue to support us in our endeavor with your active participation in the coming editions too. The uniqueness of this Indian kukai is that it gives you 7 points to play with during the voting phase, as opposed to the usual 6 points allotted in other kukai contests. Liberating, isn't it?

Please follow our blog here and watch this space for the next announcement that is going to come in just a few days.

Photo:creative commons

if i could give a name to this wind wild poppies

Frogpond 36.3

peep-toes haiga

 Have to share with you these two beautiful haiga by Jayashree Maniyil from Australia, which she did
based on my haiku published in DailyHaiku on December 8.I loved both the versions. You pick your favourite.

November shiki kukai

 Another second place in The November Shiki kukai free format section. The winning entry in that section was this awesome ku by Vinay Ravindranath of our very own In haiku group:

ink puddle--

the words that

never were

And my runner-up ku :

this puddle

what my paper boat knows

of the sea 

Paresh Tiwari was in third place with this entry:

alley puddle--

 a paper boat  glides

over the stars

Incidentally, poets from India made a clean sweep of the top places in this free format section.

In the kigo section, I was in the fifth place with this ku :

morning chill-

the chimney smoke curls back

into itself

haiga: hoping

 A haiga I had done sometime ago and which just happened to match Neelam Dadhwal's prompt: "play" on IN haiku.

hoping 

to turn it around~

a nuthatch's world

Results of Indian Kukai #02

The results of the second edition of Indian kukai is out now.
Paresh Tiwari from India takes the top place with this absolute winner of an entry which gathered 37 points.

mustard fields--
a thimbleful of sun
in each blossom

Nd this entry by yours truly is placed second.

Margosa leaves

strumming the sunlight...

a poem I cannot write

There were many other beautiful entries from entrants all over the globe.You can view the full results here.

Results of Indian Kukai #02