Players: 1.Rita Odeh, Israel; 2. Claude Lopez-Ginisty; 3. Ajaya Mahala, India; 4. Eduard Tara, Romania; 5. Archana Kapoor Nagpal, India; 6. Arvinder Kaur, India; 7. Daniela Lacramioara Capota, Romania; 8. Shloka Shankar,Bangalore, India; 9. Shrikaanth Krsihnamurthy, UK; 10. Dwarakanathan Ravi, India; 11. Anitha Varma, India; 12. Tomislav Maretic, Croatia; 13. Yesha Shah, India; 14. Andrzej Dembonczyk, Poland; 15. John McDonald, Scotland; 16. Magdalena Dale, Romania 17. Bouwe Brouwer, The Netherlands; 18. Kashinath Karmakar, India; 19. Dan Iulian, Romania; 20. Robert Kania, Poland; 21. Christine L. Villa, USA; 22. Cezar Ciobica,; 23. Catherine J.S. Lee, USA;
FIRST PLACE
17
kite shop -
entering with every customer
the summer breeze
--Bouwe
Votes: 224*** Points: 18
Comments:
SECOND PLACE
20
a paper kite...
my first dream
about flying
--Robert Kania, Poland
Votes: 45**** Points: 14
Comments: simple and neat!
THIRD PLACE
22
gunshots ...
a kite flying over
the Berlin wall
--Cezar-Florin Ciobîca
Votes: 521*** Points: 12
Comments: I love the contrast in this Haiku- of war and peace, innocence against hatred and parochialism
RESULTS CONTINUES
1
monarch kite
flying without string...
my dream
--Rita Odeh, Nazareth, Israel
Votes: 43**** Points: 10
Comments: Beautiful image. For me, L2 is particularly the highlight.
2
Kites go to the sky
And bodies down into earth
To climb up heaven
--Claude Lopez-Ginisty
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:
3
lull before the storm
with kite in hand a boy faces
his father's silence
--Ajaya Mahala, Pune, India
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:
4
wheelchair –
a child embracing gently
his old kite
--Eduard TARA, Romania
Votes: 4*2*** Points: 10
Comments:
5
flying a kite
from a wheelchair—
undying spirit
-- Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Bangalore, India
Votes: 11**** Points: 03
Comments:
6
kite's tail -
the drift of my life
without you
--Arvinder Kaur,Chandigarh,India
Votes: 71**** Points: 09
Comments:
7
never too high
the paper kite -
dreaming out of wheelchair
--Daniela Lacramioara Capota, Roumanie
Votes: *1**** Points: 02
Comments:
8
bloody fingers
a soaring kite melts
away the pain
-- Shloka Shankar,Bangalore, India
Votes: *1**** Points: 02
Comments: I think he/she is referring to 'Maanja' a process of making the string very strong. Wonderful image!!!
9
torn apart
by a vagrant branch
my dream kite
--Shrikaanth KrsihnamurthyBirmingham, UK
Votes: 3***** Points: 03
Comments:
10
summer evening...
I break my piggy bank
for a kite
-- Dwarakanathan Ravi, Chennai, India
Votes: 31**** Points: 05
Comments: 1.Simplicity at its best. 2.This is an nice picture of childhood with a hint of other things.
11
the pause of the swing
as it reaches the apex...
kites fleck the sky
--Anitha Varma, Kerala, India.
Votes: 2***** Points: 02
Comments:
12
this kite so fanciful
in the sky... now just a thing
on the ground
--Tomislav
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:
13
to fade as a
speck in the vast blue sky--
soaring kite
--Yesha ShahIndia
Votes: 3***** Points: 03
Comments:
14
paralyzed grandpa
in the hands of grandson
unfinished kite
--Andrzej Dembonczyk, Silesia
Votes: 21**** Points: 04
Comments:
15
little kite
broken free
...butterfly
---JOHN McDONALD EDINBURGH SCOTLAND
Votes: 3*1*** Points: 06
Comments:
16
up in the sky
a kite rises higher...
fallen leaves
--Magdalena Dale - Romania
Votes: 4***** Points: 04
Comments: An element of mystery in it that just escapes one, like a soaring kite
18
letting go-
the aimless drift of my cut
fighter kite
--Kashinath Karmakar,Durgapur,India
Votes: 22**** Points: 06
Comments:
19
both
equally playful-
the kite and the wind
--Dan Iulian, Bucharest-Romania
Votes: 31**** Points: 05
Comments:
21
puffy clouds
a seagull soars higher
than my kite
--Christine L. Villa, USA
Votes: 62**** Points: 10
Comments:
23
first warm day
my spirits lifting
with a red kite
--Catherine J.S. Lee,USA
Votes: 52**** Points: 09
Comments:
LATE ENTRY
festival sky
the wallah sets up
the kite array
--Ramesh Anand,Bangalore, India.
Sunday evening...
dad and son rein in the sun
upon their kite
--Keith A. SIMMONDS, Rodez, FRANCE
