Call for Entries-Indian Kukai # 33- AUGUST 2020

Namaste! Hello!

We welcome you to the 33rd edition of Indian Kukai. This will be a fast Kukai.So please go through the submission dates and voting dates carefully.This time you can vote for only three haiku.

Indian Kukai comes to you from IN haiku group, which was formed by few like-minded haiku poets at the Haiku Utsav in February of 2013 – for exploring, promoting, enjoying and sinking deeper into the intricacies of this beautiful art form.

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Topics and results will be posted to this blog only. We’ll send you the ballot to the mail ID you use to enter the kukai.

We have chosen MANNEQUIN as the topic for Indian Kukai #33.

The word need not be used in the haiku, but the haiku should be showing the topic clearly.

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Submission Period:

FRIDAY – 31st JULY to THURSDAY – 6th AUGUST 2020 (12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)

Voting Period:

SATDAY –8th AUGUST to WEDDAY – 12th AUGUST 2020(12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)

( Note that INDIAN STANDARD TIME is 5:30 Hours ahead of GMT)

Results on SUNDAY 16th AUGUST,2020

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Guidelines:

• Participants may send no more than ONE HAIKU ENTRY on the topic. No haiga entries please. Only haiku in English shall be accepted.Please do not leave extra gap between lines of the haiku.
• If you keep extra gap intentionally,please mention it. 
• Please do not enter any previously published haiku. Publication includes personal blogs, journals, Facebook, print or websites. Also, please do not use any obscene words in your haiku. We wish to keep the Indian Kukai free of such words.
• All haiku entries are to remain anonymous till we publish the results.Any shared information or discussion about your entries in any group or forum, will be considered a violation of the rule.
•  If you submit a haiku to the kukai, then voting is mandatory.
• If you fail to vote during the voting period, then your haiku will be shown without ranking points in the results.

How to enter?

1. Send one haiku to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com
2. Only haiku in English shall be accepted.
3. The subject for correspondence will be “Indian Kukai #33 (MANNEQUIN) – My Entry”
4. Please sign your haiku with your name and place of residence (city, country).
5. The acknowledgement for the same will come at most by the weekend after we receive your entry.
6. Write your entry in the body of the mail, left aligned. Attachments will not be considered.
7. We will send a ballot mail with the entries to those who have entered, once the submission period closes.

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Guidelines for Voting Period:

•  Those who have submitted an entry to this edition of the kukai can vote.
• We will send you an e-mail with the entries numbered and made anonymous.
• You will have 6 points to use in total. You can vote only for three haiku. You have to award 3 points to one haiku,2 points to another one and 1 point to the last one of your choice.You have to use all 6 points this way.You can't go for 2+2+2 option of voting.
• Send all your votes in one e-mail to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com with the subject for correspondence as "Indian Kukai #33(MANNEQUIN) - My Votes". We request you not to reply to the ballot mail itself, as it will help us to tally your votes easily.
• The acknowledgement for the same will come at most by the weekend after we receive your vote mail.
• Please do not vote for your own entry. Such votes will result in all your votes being rejected.
• Order your votes in the same order as in list.

          For eg:
          #01 -- 3 points
          #06 -- 1 points
          #25 -- 2 points

• Once voting period closes, the results will be published on this blog. We will intimate the publishing of results on blog via a mail as well.

Winners' Certificates of Indian Kukai #32

The certificates of top five winners  of 32nd Indian Kukai are here :-

                                                       Theme-Hope



                                                  WINNER- Ed Bremson

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                            RUNNER UP-Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara

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                                           THIRD PLACE-Gautam Nadkarni

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FOURTH PLACE-Marion Clarke

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FIFTH PLACE-Pepa Odjakova

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Organizers,Indian Kukai

Results of the 32nd Indian Kukai

We conclude the 32nd edition of the Indian Kukai
today.

75 participants took part in the 32nd Indian Kukai.

The theme was HOPE.

This time the winner is Ed Bremson from
Raleigh, NC,USA,  with 36 points.

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara from Romania takes the Second Place with 24 points.

Gautam Nadkarni from Mumbai,India is Third with 21 points.

Marion Clarke from Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland is Fourth with 19 points and Pepa Odjakova from Plovdiv, Bulgaria , takes the 5th place with 17 points.

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

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

#1

loneliness...
spring offers me
a new leaf

Ed Bremson Raleigh, NC,USA
(10,1,8)=36 points


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 2nd place

#17

quarantine silence - from somewhere a lullaby

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara Romania
(9,6,1)=24 points


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 3rd place

 #46

empty crib... still searching the night sky for a new star

Gautam Nadkarni Mumbai, India
(3,6,2)=21 points



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4th place

 #48

aftermath resting on the rubble a white butterfly

Marion Clarke Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
(5,4,2)= 19 points



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5th place

# 29

last hope an old couple adopt a lame dog

Pepa Odjakova Plovdiv, Bulgaria
(2,3,3)=17 points


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6th place

# 35

a robin hops
0n the sunlit window sill-
isolation ward

arvinder kaur
Chandigarh,India
(6,3,1)= 15 points



 *

7th place(x2)

# 24

time standing still my cherry tree continues to bloom

Eléonore Nickolay Vaires sur Marne,France

(3,2,2)=13 points


#49

Mother's Day in the orphanage self made cards

Marta Chocilowska, Warsaw, Poland
(2,4,1)= 13 points

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 8th place(x4)

 #25

cherry tree in bloom - her first makeup on social media

Ana Drobot Bucharest, Romania
(4,4,0)= 12 points


#37

pregnant – in each puddle sparkles the spring sunshine

Krzysztof Kokot,
Nowy Targ, POLAND
(4,1,2)= 12 points


# 60

parched sky in the farmer's eyes a drop of hope

Vinay Leo R. Bangalore, India.
(2,2,2)= 12 points

#69

power cut
the comfort
of fireflies

Adjei Agyei-Baah Kumasi, Ghana
(7,1,1)= 12 points



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 9th place

#53

mother's dream ... her son's image at the doorstep

Mohammad Azim Khan, Peshawar,Pakistan
(3,1,2)= 11 points




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 10th place(x3)

 #13

social isolation two tulips fondle their heads

Radka Mindova Bulgaria, Sliven city
(3,2,1)= 10 points


#43

Deserted roads - the pair of swallows returns to the old nest

Pasquale Asprea Italy
(1,3,1) = 10 points



# 44

lockdown all her dreams gathered in a tea bin

(4,3,0)= 10 points


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 9 points(x2)

 #31

shedding to sprout again — Sakura

Madhuri Pillai Australia
(3,0,2)=9 points


 #42

Hiroshima the silence of a new dawn

Mark Gilfillan London
(1,4,0)= 9 points

*

8 points


#11

silent prayers a quiver of votive candles

Ingrid Baluchi Ohrid, Macedonia
(4,2,0)= 8 points


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7 points(x5)

#4

a bunch of white lilies - I deceive myself with the hope of reconciliation

Costache Nastasă Romania
(1,0,2)= 7 points


#41

first crocus she knows better days are coming

Nancy Brady Huron, USA
(4,0,1)= 7 points

 #54

spring expectation the first grandchild comes along with the lockdown

Lyudmila Hristova, Sofia, Bulgaria
(1,0,2)=7 points


#59

cyclone - a firefly flickers In dark
Sudebi Singha Kolkata ,India
(0,2,1)=7 points

#68

son in ICU enters the temple the atheist

quamrul hassan dhaka, bangladesh
(2,1,1)=7 points


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6 points(x3)

#21

returning geese ... a migrant child on expressway flashes a V

sanjuktaa asopa India
(3,0,1)= 6 points

#23

gloomy night a candlelit prayer passes on one more balcony

Milan Rajkumar Imphal , India
(2,2,0)= 6 points

#32

rainbow – my grandson drawing it with a smiley face

Rodica Ștefan Bucharest, Romania

(2,2,0)= 6 points

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5 points(x8)

#6

words of prayer invisible whisper lips under the mask

Jurate Norvaisiene Mazeikiai, Lithuania
(3,1,0)= 5 points


#10

after lock down can snow-capped Everest again be viewed?

Barbara A. Taylor Mountain Top, NSW Australia
(2,0,1)= 5 points



 #15

hopefully solar bunnies run without masks

Viktoriya Marinova, BULGARIA
(0,1,1)= 5 points


 #18

hope and hops one different letter two universes

Dainius Dirgela Vilnius, Lithuania
(0,1,1) = 5 points


#36

ventilator beep followed by a breathe – Covid ward

Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Bengaluru, Karnataka
( 3,1,0) =5 points


# 52

Seniors' residence two elderly friends walk free under a green foliage

Richard Jodoin
Montréal, Canada
(0,1,1) =5 points


#71

in quarantine... the plum tree shares its light with a few sparrows

Kaiser von Kahn Darmstadt,Germany
(3,1,0)=5 points


#73

irises my daughter decorates her father's coffin

Tanusha Sharma Mohali, India
(3,1,0)= 5 points

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 4 points (x5)

#8

Thunder storm? Wait for the rainbow.

Subhankar Bhattacharya Dharmanagar,Tripura, India
(1,0,1) = 4 points


 #9 

vernal equinox-- the apricot tree becoming

Sondra J. Byrnes Jimenez Street Santa Fe
(1,0,1) = 4 points


 #12

a winner in times of pandemic - the hope

Vasile Moldovan Romania
(1,0,1)= 4 points


 #57

we kill viruses - believing in God and in our doctors

Adina Enăchescu
Râmnicu Vâlcea - România
(0,2,0) = 4 points



# 75

bluer skies another business reopens

Christine L. Villa, North Highlands, CA, USA
(4,0,0)= 4 points


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3 points (x7)

#19

travel map I plan vacation trip no mask I hope

Wieslaw Karlinski,Poland
(1,1,0)= 3 points

#20

back from the lockdown — at the customs control point hoping and praying

Minh-Triêt Pham Paris, France
(0,0,1)= 3 points


# 22

prolonged lockdown... how freely seagull stops in flight before the turn

Goda V. Bendoraitienė Klaipėda, Lithuania
(0,0,1) = 3 points


# 27

fireflies in this dark summer— shine lamps

Neena Singh Chandigarh, India
(3,0,0) =3 points


# 39

summer grassland for the surviving zinnias I write a haiku

Neelam Dadhwal Chandigarh, India
(0,0,1)=3 points


#40

GMAT exam... sitting for the fourth time with more confidence

Munia Khan Dhaka, Bangladesh
(1,1,0) =3 points


#66

lockdown... under the eaves sounds of birds

Cristina Apetrei Saveni, Romania
(3,0,0)= 3 points


*
2 points (x5)


#5

writing the note I hope she’ll never see late thaw

Ignatius Fay Sudbury, Canada
(0,1,0) =2 points


#34

across pandemic spring is on time

Lakshmi Iyer Chennai,India
(2,0,0)= 2 points



# 55

protest march– a peace lily blooms in my garden

Kinshuk Gupta New Delhi, India
(2,0,0) = 2 points


#64

enjoying the stork's comeback to its nest ceasefire

Cezar Florescu
(2,0,0) = 2 points


#65

waiting for the test hail from the dark clouds or drizzle

Henryk Czempiel Strzelce Opolskie, Poland
(0,1,0) = 2 points



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1 point(x5)


#14

a little bit of hope and then some gender equality

Vandana Parashar Panchkula,India



#28

ceasefire a flock of cranes under the rainbow

Nikolay Grankin Russia, Krasnodar


#33

pandemic morning-- at the end of narrow road reliable hope

Teiichi Suzuki Osaka ,Japan


#50

long journey following small steps of hope

Kumarendra Mallick Hyderabad, India


#74

Declutter! They motivate still I mess it to messier with desires to create

Kashfy Ahsan Dhaka ,Bangladesh


NO POINTS THIS TIME,SORRY



#2

blooming irises — this pandemic brings us a true humanity

Goran Gatalica, Zagreb, Croatia


# 16

Never have I ever Claimed my share In hope of a recognition that lay bare.

Nazala Salauddin Dhaka, Bangladesh


#26

snow avalanche I pray that you will return to life


Nijolė Kerušauskienė, Kaunas, Lithuania


# 38

Pandemic the world is down side up morning sun brings hope

RANIERI Christiane France


# 45

In the wake of war Hope fixed its mangled feathers Set to reach new heights

Ramisha Rahman
Dhaka, Bangladesh


# 47

Her tent on the beach Open, she smiles wide Black teeth


Roy Duffield Barcelona, Spain

#56

inside cocoons – distanced social larvae feeding on hope

B.Vadivelrajan , Chennai, India


# 58

blossoming nature clear waters and blue sky - I hope we learned that

Mihail Buraga Bucharest, Romania


#61

brought lilac scent the wind hopeless romantic

Andrius Luneckas, Vilnius, Lituania



#62

locked down conscience— a balm of native hope on migrants' blistered feet

Rashmi VeSa Bengaluru, India


#63

sunday blues - a rainbow grows from the rain

Florin Golban, Bucuresti, Romania



#67

writing a haiku pinging a message to myself

Mark Gilbert Nottingham, UK


#70

gentle breeze seranade... startled lantern ignites

Kamrun Nahar Dhaka,Bangladesh


#72

hope amidst the clanging of alarm bells- hundreds back home cured

Sandra Martyres Mumbai

 *Haiku#3,#7,#30 and #51 are not shown in the final list as the contestants didn't send their votes.

We look forward to your participation in the 33rd Indian kukai.


Organizers,
Indian Kukai