Results of 34th Indian Kukai

 We conclude the 34th edition of the Indian Kukai today.

84 participants took part in this Kukai.

The theme was Milky Way .

This time the winner is Arvinder Kaur from Chandigarh, India with 25 points.

Marta Chocilowska, from Warsaw, Poland takes the Second Place with 23 points.

Billy Antonio from Laoac, Philippines is Third with 21 points.

Giovanna Restuccia from Italy,G.Akila from Hyderabad, India and Kaiser v Kahn from Darmstadt,Germany shared the Fourth place with 18 points each.

Cezar Florescu from Botosani, Romania is Fifth with 17 points.

Congratulations to all of them, and to each of you who participated.

Here are the complete results:

Points are indicated as (5,3,1) = 5*1pt + 3*2pt + 1*3pt = 5+6+3 = 14 pts.

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1st Place

#24

mother's passing -
the river of heaven
brighter than ever

Arvinder Kaur, Chandigarh,India
(1,3,6)=25 points


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 2nd place

# 13

Milky Way
shoals of silvery fish
fill the sea

Marta Chocilowska, Warsaw, Poland
(8,6,1)=23 points


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 3rd place

 #68

no blanket
but the Milky Way
a beggar dreams

Billy Antonio
Laoac, Philippines
(5,2,4)=21 points

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4th place(x3)

#21

Milky Way-
how soon will I be
dust?

Giovanna Restuccia Italy

(4,4,2) = 18 points

#72

connecting dots...
where do I begin
and end

G.Akila
Hyderabad, India

(5,2,3)=18 points

#82

refugee camp
the expansive silence
of Milky Way

Kaiser v Kahn
Darmstadt,Germany

(3,3,3)= 18 points

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5th Place

#81

old pond...
the Milky Way makes room
for water lilies

Cezar Florescu
Botosani, romania

(1,2,4)= 17 points

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6th place

#69

Milky Way
before our son
was a stillborn

Pragya Vishnoi
Kanpur,India

(0,2,4)= 16 points

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7th place(x2)

#12

midnight muse -
painting my poems
with stardust

Teji Sethi,
Bangalore,India

(2,2,3)= 15 points

#29

skinny dipping
with every stroke
we catch a star

Marina Bellini
Bagnolo San Vito (MN)
Italy

(0,3,3)=15 points

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8th place(x2)

#73

childhood sky -
guessing stars
one by one

Florin Golban,
Bucuresti, Romania

(1,2,3)=14 points

#85

undulating
on a dark river -
oil lamps

Priti Aisola;
Hyderabad, India

(1,2,3)= 14 points

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9th place

#42

milky way the river makes space for me

Ashish Narain
Manila, Philippines

(1,3,2)=13 points

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10th place(x2)

#4

Milky Way
after the sleepless night
first tooth

Radka Mindova
Bulgaria

(2,2,2) = 12 points

#80

a koi's leap
the Milky way settles
over its sound

sanjuktaa asopa
Karnataka,India

(1,1,3)=12 points

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10 points(x2)

# 5

Milky Way
mother’s prayers
stir the stars

Marilyn Ashbaugh
Edwardsburg, USA

(2,1,2)= 10 points

#61

in the breath of space between us...milky way

Vandana Parashar
Panchkula,India

(2,1,2)= 10 points

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 9 points(x3)

 #36

Along the highway
a lost cow in the night
the Milky Way

Richard Jodoin
Montréal, Canada

(2,2,1)= 9 points

 #43

a puddle--
willing to jump over
the Milky Way

Teiichi Suzuki
Osaka, Japan

(0,3,1) = 9 points

#67

Milky Way...
still looking at the stars
in my little girl's eyes

Gautam Nadkarni
Mumbai, India

(1,1,2)= 9 points

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8 points (X6)


#6

crossing
my insomnia...
Milky Way

Mirela Brăilean
Iași,România

(3,1,1)= 8 points

#53

a million sparkles
in a child's eyes
Diwali sky

Lakshmi Iyer
Kerala,India

(1,2,1) = 8 points

#59

the sound
of wild geese somewhere
milky way

Jurate Norvaisiene
Lithuania, Mazeikiai

(2,0,2)= 8 points

#63

the Milky Way...
imprints of our school bus
on damp sand

Goran Gatalica,
Zagreb, Croatia

(0,1,2)= 8 points

#77

milky way...
one by one snowflakes
kiss my feet

Archana Kapoor Nagpal,
Bengaluru, India

(0,1,2)= 8 points

#2

milky way...
a pregnant woman wishes
on a falling star

Ed Bremson
Raleigh, NC
USA

(0,1,2)= 8 points

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6 points(x5)

#1

moonless autumn -
mother in rags lullabies
about milk and stars

Tapan Mozumdar
Bangalore, India

(0,0,2) = 6 points

#15

just now a star falls
from the Milky Way...
is it mine?!

Vasile Moldovan
Bucharest, Romania

(0,0,2)= 6 points

#17

full moon
in the calm sea
Milky Way

Viktoriya Marinova
Bulgaria

(1,1,1)= 6 points

#20

clear night
slicing the milky way
bats

Andrius Luneckas,
Lituania, Vilnius

(0,3,0)= 6 points

#52

no telescop –
in grandparents'village
Milky Way

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara
Romania

(1,1,1) = 6 points

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5 points(x3)

#18

lockdown
from my balcony straight to
the Milky Way

Eleonore Nickolay
Vaires sur Marne,France

(2,0,1)= 5 points

#19

alone, sick...
I ask the stars in the Milky Way
assistance

Adina ENĂCHESCU
Rm. Vâlcea
România

(0,1,1) = 5 points

 #78

in her eyes ...
the secrets of
the galaxy

Surashree Joshi
Pune, India

(1,2,0) = 5 points

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 4 points (x4)


# 28

all the light
our lives will ever need
Milky Way

Srinivas S
Rishi Valley, India

(0,2,0) =4 points

# 39

icy bay
a trail of dead mackerels
joins the Milky Way

Ajaya Mahala
Bhubaneswar, India

(0,2,0) = 4 points

# 51

The poets pass
one by one in immortality -
Milky Way

Constantin Stroe
Bucharest, Romania

(2,1,0)= 4 points

# 64

cosmic traveller -
all the stars are glittering
in my glass of wine

Mihail Buraga
Bucharest, Romania

(1,0,1)= 4 points

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3 points (x8)

# 23

Milky Way
telling grandson a bedtime story
from my childhood

Nikolay Grankin.
Russia

( 0,0,1) = 3 points

# 26

me and mosquitoes
there is room for everyone
on the milky way

Wiesław Karliński,
Namysłów, Poland

(0,0,1) = 3 points

# 31

cloudless night -
childhood's fireflies
in the milky way

Christiane Ranieri
Wittenheim France

( 1,1,0)= 3 points

# 55

across the night sky
arching my new spiral thoughts
in the milky way

Kaa. Na. Kalyanasundaram
Chennai,India

(0,0,1) =3 points

# 76

starry dawn
the humming milkman
on his way

Henryk Czempiel
Strzelce Opolskie, Poland

(3,0,0) = 3 points

# 83

shallow water
children wallowing
in the Milky Way

Cristina Apetrei
Saveni ,Romania

(1,1,0)= 3 points

#84

traveling to
the milky way and back
my thoughts

quamrul hassan
dhaka, bangladesh

(3,0,0) = 3 points

# 16

stars at their feet
this young couple . . .
rice on the bridal path

Ingrid Baluchi
Ohrid, Macedonia

(1,1,0)= 3 points

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2 points (x5)

# 10

milky way
my gipsy lover and I
We took a walk

Damir Damir,
Kotor, Montenegro

(0,1,0)= 2 points

# 30

Milky way
I whisper my wishes
to my doll

Pepa Odjakova
Plovdiv, Bulgaria

(0,1,0) = 2 points

# 32

night flowers-
blooming above the spout
the milky way

Shalini Pattabiraman
Dundee, Scotland

(0,1,0) = 2 points

# 35

sketch of one bright star
falling
through dust

Radhamani sarma
Chennai ,India

(0,1,0) = 2 points

# 47

I count the stars-
a quiet, warm night…
lockdown

Krzysztof Kokot,
Nowy Targ, POLAND

(0,1,0) = 2 points

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1 point(x9)


# 3

the Universe is Me
getting smaller and smaller
alone on Milky Way

Goda V. Bendoraitienė
Klaipėda, Lithuania


#34

summer night sky . . .
with her flowing hair
river of heaven

Milan Rajkumar
Imphal , India

# 45

Milky Way -
the baby gives mom
clues for weaning

Dan Iulian,
Bucharest , Romania

# 46

milky way -
through his lens
she eyes venus

R.SURESH BABU
CHIKMAGALUR, INDIA

# 58

leaves falling down
on the Milky Way...
night over the river

Lyudmila Hristova,
Sofia, Bulgaria

# 65

Milky Way . . .
billions of stars spill
into the night

Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland

# 66

waiting
for the old milkman
paddling the Milky Way

Mohammad Azim Khan,
Peshawar,Pakistan

#  71

Milky Way sky --
I follow a straight
and frosted path

James Dobson,
Prudhoe, UK.

# 79

vast canvas
along the cloud's bank
a narrow Milkyway

Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad,India

NO POINTS THIS TIME,SORRY



#7

cold autumn night —
above the street lights
the Milky Way

Minh-Triêt Pham
Paris, France

# 8

Kilifi Bay—
dog paddling around us paints
the Milky Way

Roy Duffield
Barcelona, Spain

#9

the milky way
me, a part or vice-versa—
my mind boggles

Subir Ningthouja,
Imphal, Manipur

# 11

zero mars
full mouth of milky way
cosmos of happy child

Dainius Dirgela
Vilnius, Lithuania

# 14

gushing waves
our imprints
get closer

Rajeshwari Srinivasan
India

# 22

milky band of light
in the night sky shown by stars...
our own galaxy

Pat Geyer
East Brunswick, NJ USA

# 25

Milky way -
dessert impressions made by cats.

vibha rani Shrivastava
Patna,India

#27

Milky Way -
the token I still keep
from you

Ana Drobot,
Bucharest, Romania

# 37

milky way
wishing to see myself
from outside

Christine L. Villa
North Highlands, USA

# 38

river of milk -
the ablutions
of the young monk

Pasquale Asprea
Italy

#41

Big Dipper
above the mountain lake
poetry underfoot

Christina Chin
Kuching, Malaysia

#44

that moment
two parallels cross
milky way

Richa Sharma
Ghaziabad, India

#48

milky way
the shinny sky
call me fly

Kamrun Nahar
Dhaka,Bangladesh

# 50

watering flowers –
the flowing of dreams
in the autumn sky

Daniela Misso
San Gemini (TR)
Italy

# 54

in the galaxy Diwali festive
at the telescope
crowd of people

Sushma Nayak
Bhubaneswar, India

# 70

murmuration ...
through the binoculars
a tiny galaxy

Sushama Kapur
Pune,India

# 74

stardust
the white band of light in the sky
guides the pilgrims

Tsanka Shishkova
Sofia, Bulgaria

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Haiku# 49 was withdrawn from the contest.

Haiku# 57 and # 75 were cancelled.

Haiku #56,62,33,40 and 60 were not shown in 

the final list as participants did not send their votes.

Thank you all for your participation !
We look forward to your participation in the 35th Indian kukai.


Organizers,
Indian Kukai