CKK #52 Results

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Players: 1. Claude Lopez-ginisty, Switzerland; 2. Opie Houston, USA; 3. Neelam Dadhwal, India; 4. Quentin Clingerman USA; 5. Gheorghe Postelnicu, Romania; 6. Keith A. Simmonds, France; 7. Gabriel Sawicki, Poland; 8. Joey Connolly, Northern Marianas Islands; 9. Ajaya Mahala, India; 10. John McDonald, Scotland; 11. Richard Jodoin, Canada; 12. Yesha Shah, India; 13. Shloka Shankar, India; 14. Marie-Alice Maire , France; 15. Bouwe Brouwer, Poland; 16. Arvinder Kaur, India; 17. Tomislav Maretic, Croatia; 18. Robert Kania, Poland; 19. Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, Birmingham, UK; 20. Cezar Ciobica, Romania; 21. Christine L. Villa, USA; 22. Ingrid Jend, UK


FIRST PLACE

10
picnic -
butterflies and
flies in the butter
--john mcdonald Ediburgh Scotland
Votes: 243*** Points: 19
Comments: 1. I like the idea! Good word play; 2. An utter word play


SECOND PLACE

15
Christmas morning
unwrapping
Great Expectations
--Bouwe
Votes: 332*** Points: 15
Comments: 1.What a simple, clever take on the theme - beautiful! 2.Interesting choice ; 3. ah, expectations!! 4. the Dickens you say



THIRD PLACE

12
crossword-
I go across the downs
in life
--Yesha Shah Surat, India
Votes: 512*** Points: 13
Comments:1. Absolutely brilliant word play! A winning haiku; 2. don't we all?



13
white noise
his argument
was sound
--Shloka Shankar Bangalore, India
Votes: 241*** Points: 13
Comments: If the white noise is therapeutic... It could be the best argument.



RESULTS CONTINUES

1
Just add venture
To any word
And it become a world
--claude lopez-ginisty
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


2
Scotsman's rainbow kilt
showing off his shortcomings...
clogging in brogans
--opie houston
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:


3
in the bathtub
"enough of it" her daughter
backs her charge
--Neelam Dadhwal Chandigarh, India
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


4
Food going to waist
Is wasted when it is too much
The waist is wasted
--Quentin Clingerman USA
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


5
crosswords and NEScafe -
horizontal GOOD NESS
vertical CREDENCE
--sTOPs Romania
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


6.
a spring haiku
with word play in the air...
cherry blossoms
--Keith A. SIMMONDS Rodez, FRANCE
Votes: 21**** Points: 04
Comments:


7
unstable candle flame
he wonders if this time
her no means yes
--Gabriel
Votes: 22**** Points: 06
Comments: always secretly read the tea leaves before lighting the candle


8
sparrow sang
after the summer storm
mighty music
--joey connolly , Tinian island, Northern Marianas Islands
Votes: 21**** Points: 04
Comments: singer slinger


9
the headgirl
a challenge to the boys
in her coy smile
--Ajaya Mahala, Pune, India
Votes: 2***** Points: 02
Comments: it is a law written somewhere regarding crib training.


11
Scat duet
at the Jazz Festival
young lovers' chat
--Richard Jodoin (Montréal, Canada)
Votes: *21*** Points: 07
Comments: doo bee doo bee dew


14
crossroads
silent of my car horn
cowbell missing
--Marie-Alice MAIRE
Votes: ****** Points: 00
Comments:


16
chance scrimmage -
the nightingale's pitch
a notch higher each time
--Arvinder Kaur,Chandigarh,India
Votes: 1***** Points: 01
Comments:


17
becarac* –
the old woman sings back
to the players's banter
--Tomislav
Votes: 21**** Points: 04
Comments: I like the spunk of the old woman
Notes: becarac*


18
a song festival -
even birds are singing
in playback
--Robert Kania, Poland
Votes: 43**** Points: 10
Comments:


19
dumb charades-
i wait for her signs
with bated breath
--Shrikaanth
Votes: 13**** Points: 07
Comments:


20.
staccato sound...
remembering our
fallen heroes
--Cezar C.
Votes: 131*** Points: 10
Comments: a nice tribute to our soldiers


21
bruised apple
he says he meant it
as a joke
--Christine L. Villa, USA
Votes: 111*** Points: 06
Comments: I can definitely relate to this one. Nicely done!


22.
sleepless nights
the comforting black and white
of crossword puzzles
--Ingrid Jend (Cambridge UK)
Votes: 43***** Points: 10
Comments: The effectiveness of words to forget

CKK #52

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Dear (kuyu) haiku friends, This July our fifty-second kukai.
I have proposed word play as the theme . Since 'word play ' is a theme you can write about it, without using the exact term as given. Send one haiku, written in the style of your choice; via e-mail Have fun, be creative. Enjoy!

Drag Yuh Bow
An interesting folk custom, here in Trinidad and Tobago, more frequent seen nowadays at carnival time, as an icon of traditional mas; but also also very much so prominent in staged folk productions;
is the Tobago speech band. The Speech Bands are most present at The Tobago Heritage Festival, first staged in 1987; It spans a two-week period from mid-July to August, an annual event. The players in A Tobago Speech Band wear ruffled shirts, flamboyant coloured satin pantaloons, stockings, and wire hats, or cork hats ornate with coloured paper streamers, the hats look like ships. Face masques are usually of wire mesh. Their traditional footwear are alpagartas but its not unlikely to see a present day character wearing sandals. They carry sticks which represent swords of Admirals past, in the history of the island. Characters dance a stacco marching movement to background drums and fiddle, criss crossing each other on stage. Out of the march a challenger emerges, goes to the microphone and chants "Drag yuh bow, Mr. Fiddler." the music subsides briefly, and a question is posed. Questions may be of a social and political or even personal nature. and the expectation is that after replying; in return a similar question will be flung back. The music returns in cresendo, after each oration. Questions and answers are commonly posed in comic rhyme so that audiences are throw into fits of laughter. Special to this tradition are the dialect of Tobagonians spiced with a Scottish brouge influenced from land overseers and church missionaries from the nineteenth century; and, the background music of fiddle, flute, and tambrins; a combined harmony of African and British folk rhythms molded to produce a new Tobago sound."(text first published at Sketchbook 4/3 09)

Example:-
rhythm of the drums -
a question answered now
the dancers swagger
--gillena cox


Deadline for sending entries is July 10th 2014
Deadline for sending votes is July 20th 2014

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much love
gillena