Results of the EUROPEAN QUARTERLY KUKAI #17 - Spring 2017 Edition (topic: birds)

Turnout in EQK is constantly rising, new authors are still coming, the level of haiku is still high, which is very please us. This time the first place "flew away" to India, thanks to Vinay Leo R. Second place was won by Aljosa Vukovic (Croatia) and third by David J. Kelly (Ireland). Congratulations.

Which birds were most commonly presented in your haiku? You have to count it yourself 😊 In half of May we will prepare the next edition of EQK and from today we begin to think about the next topic. We invite you to the 18th edition.

17^th edition: 238 authors from 43 countries:

Australia (9), Austria (2), Bangladesh (4), Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (17), Canada (5), Colombia (1), Croatia (15), Cyprus (1), Denmark (2), France (6), Germany (18), Ghana (6), Hungary (1), India(16), Ireland (1), Israel (3), Italy (13), Japan (1), Lithuania (8), Macedonia (1), Malta (1), Montenegro (2), Nepal (1), The Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (2), Norway (11), Pakistan (1), Philippines (4), Poland (11), Portugal (1), Romania (18), Russia (7), Serbia (4), Singapore (1), Slovenia (2), Switzerland (3), Ukraine (1), United Kingdom (11), United States (17)

note: (9-5-8) means 9x3 points, 5x2 points and 8x1 point = 45 points

FIRST PLACE:

#029 Vinay Leo R., Bangalore, India

(9-5-8) = 45 points

(from: NOR, GER, IND, IND, CRO, IND, CAN, ISR, ITA  - UK, BUL, USA, PHI, USA  - RUS, RUS, NOR, ROM, ISR, UK, LIT, LIT)

birdsong...

if only I had

the time

SECOND PLACE:

#086 Aljoša Vuković, Sibenik, Croatia

(9-7-1) = 42 points

(from: ITA, POL, BUL, SUI, CRO, CRO, IND, GER, ROM – RUS, SRB, ROM, GER, AUT, CRO, BUL - BUL)

parrot on my shoulder
my mother's voice
once again

THIRD PLACE:

#110  David J Kelly, Dublin, Ireland

(8-7-3) = 41 points

(from: IND, ISR, GER, ROM, GER, NOR, BGL, FRA- NOR, GER, GER, UK, GHA, BGL, LIT – USA, CAN, BGL )

a small bird’s song

the weight of the world

lighter

4th place – 35 points:

Valentine’s day –

in the park I share my cake

with pigeons

#083 Daniela Lăcrămioara Capotă, Galaţi, Romania

(5-7-6) = 35 pts

5th place – 30 points (2 authors):

my mum's photo

my son draws

wings

#044 Radka Mindova, Sliven, Bulgaria

(7-3-3) = 30 pts

v   

kiwi
some of us
don’t fly

#128 Arne Haukdal, Stavanger, Norway

(6-2-8) = 30 pts

6th place – 29 points (2):

poacher trap -

another song

lost forever

#099 Marina Bellini, Bagnolo San Vito (MN), Italy

(5-6-2) = 29 pts

v   

eleventh birthday...

my daughter waits for an owl

from Hogwarts

#133 Vandana Parashar, Ambala Cantt, India

(6-4-3) = 29 pts

7th place – 25 points:

jazz  concert 

swallows improvisation

entwined with clouds

#001 Lucia Fontana, Milan, Italy

(5-5-0) = 25 pts

8th place – 24 points (4):

evening frost

the song of a robin

waiting to be found

#002 Vibeke Laier, Randers, Denmark

(4-2-8) = 24 pts

v   

woodchopper’s axe

the mournful cry

of a forest raven

#023 Cynthia Rowe, Sydney, Australia

(4-3-6) = 24 pts

v   

first day of spring

our young parrot

suddenly spoke

# 052 Nikolay Grankin, Krasnodar, Russia

(4-4-4) = 24 pts

v   

silent forest

a sheet of bark

opens yellow eyes

#180 Lynette Arden, Norwood SA, Australia

(7-1-1) = 24 pts

9th place – 22 points:

breaking dawn -

the blackcap’s song blows out

the last star

#211 Maria Laura Valente, Cesena, Italy

(5-3-1) = 22 pts

10th place – 21 points:

sandy beach

I draw the heart for you

with a gull feather

#187 Štefanija Ludvig, Dubravica, Croatia

(3-4-4) = 21 pts

19 points (2):

first bird -
the air I breathe in
full of songs

#003 Eduard Tara, Iasi, Romania

(3-3-4) = 19 pts

v   

rain

knocking on the sill

one legged dove 

#077 Andrius Luneckas, Vilnius, Lithuania

(3-4-2) = 19 pts

17 points (2):

gray rainy day

in my laptop

swallows singing

#025 Zoran Doderovic, Novi Sad, Serbia

(3-3-2) = 17 pts

v   

blackbird
making a worm aware
of its full length

#109 Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Viersen, Germany

(2-2-7) = 17 pts

16 points:

nightingale
my baby’s nose
whistling

#094 Christina Sng, Singapore

(2-3-4) = 16 pts

15 points (2):

bird's song - 

the years before

blood tests

#006 Ana Drobot, Bucharest, Romania

(2-3-3) = 15 pts

v   

late evening

blackbirds

singing home the dead

#013 Jens-Christian Kjaer, Brande, Denmark

(5-0-0) = 15 pts

14 points (5):

spring green phoebe song

         hemi—

demi—

         semi—

quavering . . .

#004 Anna Cates, Wilmington, OH, USA

(4-1-0) = 14 pts

v   

a swallow's wing

barely skimmed the grass –

first drops of rain

#017 Marta Chociłowska, Warsaw, Poland

(2-3-2) = 14 pts

v   

dead mockingbird

the colourless sound

of silence

#057 Oddbjørn Aardalen, Vennesla, Norway

(1-3-5) = 14 pts

v   

nightingale singing
the tailor sews
her wedding dress

#196 Christa Beau, Halle/Saale, Germany

(3-1-3) = 14 pts

v   

harvest day —

on the scarecrow

a crow

#214 Minh-Triêt Pham, Paris, France

(3-1-3) = 14 pts

13 points (3):

nearly spring...

flocks of sparrows

leaf a tree

#101 Nancy Brady, Huron, Ohio, USA

(2-2-3) = 13 pts

v   

shimmering sea -

the old fishing boat

plays with the seagulls

#116 Eleni Antoniou - Constantinou, Nicosia, Cyprus

(3-2-0) = 13 pts

v   

Easter at the hospice
the old man in the last room
converses with a blackbird

#125 Lyudmila Hristova, Sofia, Bulgaria

(2-3-1) = 13 pts

12 points (2):

late afternoon-

the blue bird feathers

shine on the lake

#018 Van Zimerman, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

(1-3-3) = 12 pts

v   

nightingale

the child whistles

a song

#201 Eufemia Griffo, Settimo Milanese, Italy

(3-1-1) = 12 pts

11 points (8):

frosty morning -

pheasant sings 

from the mist

#041 Goran Gatalica, Zagreb, Croatia

(1-4-0) = 11 pts

v   

stillborn ...

filling my emptiness

whistle of a bird

#078 Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Bangalore, India

(2-1-3) = 11 pts

v   

journey's end

broken wings take rest

in my palms

#091 Veronika Zora Novak, Toronto, Canada

(0-4-3) = 11 pts

v   

a titmouse chirp
still waiting for
the jingle of your keys

#092 Alexey Andreev, Moscow, Russia

(2-0-5) = 11 pts

v 

perhaps

there is another sky...

chirrups in foggy morning

#136 Kumarendra Mallick, Hyderabad, India

(2-2-1) = 11 pts

v   

bird song--

at the edge of my dream

another Monday

#199 Kashinath Karmakar, Durgapur, India

(3-0-2) = 11 pts

v   

first cranes

emptying out

the classroom

#233 Cristina Apetrei, Botoşani, Romania

(2-2-1) = 11 pts

v   

gloomy day -
the blackbird's song smells
of apple blossom

#237 Hana Nestieva, Jerusalem, Israel

(3-1-0) = 11 pts

10 points (5):

a skylark
somewhere
above my straw hat

#039 Christof Blumenrath, Borken, Germany

(2-1-2) = 10 pts

v   

first light through the blinds a crow’s call

#063 Tash Adams, Perth, Australia

(1-3-1) = 10 pts

v   

curious magpie - 

under a plastic bag 

snowdrops rising 

#142 Mihail Buraga, Bucharest, Romania

(1-3-1) = 10 pts

v   

melting snow

a cherry blossom twig

in the magpie nest

#198 Zornitza Harizanova, Sofia, Bulgaria

(2-1-2) = 10 pts

v   

a smattering of rain...

the birdbath rimmed

with robin song

#225 Sanjukta Asopa, Karnataka, India

(3-0-1) = 10 pts

9 points (7):

the voice

of my late aunt

white feather falling 

#007 Rachel Sutcliffe, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

(3-0-0) = 9 pts

v   

At the noon

down among the shades

a skylark's echo

#028 Adina Enachescu, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Romania

(2-1-1) = 9 pts

v   

becoming closer -  

the fence unfolds

a falcon

#035 Angelica Seithe, Wettenberg, Germany

(2-1-1) = 9 pts

v   

a voice
from the past
birdsong

#085 Sondra J. Byrnes, Santa Fe, NM, USA

(1-2-2) = 9 pts

v   

vultures hover
over my bones
autumn winds

#093 Nika, Victoria, BC, Canada

(1-3-0) = 9 pts

v   

after all this years ...

listening to the birds in

my parent's garden

#158 Brigitte ten Brink, Konstanz, Germany

(2-0-3) = 9 pts

v   

New Year’s white morning

sparrows outdoors looking for

last year’s crumbs

#192 Francesco de Sabata, Pescantina, Italy

(0-4-1) = 9 pts

8 points (9):

Colorful feathers
flying over the jungle
an envy rainbow

#016 Fabián Padilla Hernández, Bogota, Colombia

(2-1-0) = 8 pts

v   

A fleet of geese

on the wing-

victory!

#036 Vasile Moldovan, Bucharest, Romania

(2-1-0) = 8 pts

v   

when I ask

about her country

looks up the swallows

#038 Ezio Infantino, Verona, Italy

(0-2-4) = 8 pts

v   

wrong way
seagull announces
storm

#054 Pere Risteski, Ohrid, Macedonia

(1-2-1) = 8 pts

v   

first worm

this year in

its beak

#060 Slobodan Pupovac, Zagreb, Croatia

(1-2-1) = 8 pts

v   

white feather
in abandoned nest
hunger moon

#062 Dorota Ocińska, Łódź, Poland

(1-2-1) = 8 pts

v   

disregarding

the border crossing

migrant geese

#111 Kat Lehmann, New Haven, CT, USA

(0-3-2) = 8 pts

v   

fading summer

the cry of seagulls

pure blue

#160 Damir Janjalija, Kotor, Montenegro

(2-1-0) = 8 pts

v   

sunset clouds

a wing behind
another

#228 Rajandeep Garg, Sangrur, India

(1-2-1) = 8 pts

7 points (4):

deep winter

the robin with

another leap

#005 o g aksnes, Toensberg, Norway

(1-1-2) = 7 pts

v   

the flap of a wing -

plum petals floating away

with the wind of spring

#010 Liliana Negoi, Moşteni, Ulmi, România

(1-1-2) = 7 pts

v   

hometown -

even the swallows
show me the way 

#215 Diana Teneva, Haskovo, Bulgaria

(0-3-1) = 7 pts

v   

old people's home -

in a crack in the wall

bird's nest

#216 Małgorzata Formanowska, Wrocław, Poland

(0-3-1) = 7 pts

6 points (10):

eclipse of the sun
in front of the black mirror
the birds fall silent

#009 Gerd Börner, Berlin, Germany

(0-2-2) = 6 pts

v   

sights after long illness
crows and ravens
she shoos none

#021 Rosemond Amegashie, Accra, Ghana

(2-0-0) = 6 pts

v   

flying
over mountains -

my eagle head cane 

#061 Lavana Kray, Iasi, Romania

(2-0-0) = 6 pts

v   

park pavilion
eaves drip
crow cries

#079 Brian Hall, Murphysboro, IL, USA

(1-1-1) = 6 pts

v   

rotten tree –

two pigeons billing 

in the sun

#107 Janina Weidholz, Wiesbaden, Germany

(2-0-0) = 6 pts

v   

end of the winter

а frozen apple seduces 

 sparrow

#135 Gencho Genchev, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria

(1-1-1) = 6 pts

v   

out of the sunset

stream endless crows

into the longest night

#139 Rick Clark, Seattle, USA

(2-0-0) = 6 pts

v   

meditation hour --
freeing the caged bird
in my imagination

#149 Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

(0-3-0) = 6 pts

v   

birds taking off —

  an old blind man

        shivers

#203 Christiane Ranieri, Wittenheim, France

(1-1-1) = 6 pts

v   

golden eagle

a shadow settles

on the fox

#231 Mohammad Azim Khan, Peshawar, Pakistan

(0-2-2) = 6 pts

5 points (10):

white dots
lining a shore...
storks homecoming

#019 Justice Joseph Prah, Accra, Ghana

(0-1-3) = 5 pts

v   

The sea silence-

on the empty beach

cry of gulls

#037 Constantin Stroe, Bucharest, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

ears of ripe wheat

strewing the grains

to the field birds

#055 Midhat Hrnčić - Midho, Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

flute music –

the flight of a white stork

embracing the moon

#084 Steliana Cristina Voicu, Ploiesti, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

I had a dream -

surely be true

by bird's wings

#119 Mariana Tanase, Braila, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

wave
soaring in the sky
white seagull

#121 Zuzanna Truchlewska, Łaziska Górne, Poland

(0-2-1) = 5 pts

v   

march meadows

a stork taps off

his travel dust

#143 Isabella Kramer, Nienhagen n.Celle, Germany

(0-2-1) = 5 pts

v   

moldav hawk russian eagle summit - 

yesterday Cantemir Peter 

today Dodon Putin 

#200 Nicu Stopel, Bucharest, Romania

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

Hungry robin
At the Window
Waiting for the old lady

#234 Solène Lagadec, Rennes, France

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

v   

wedding
on the finger of the bride
claw magpies

#236 Paulina Perczak, Kielce, Poland

(1-1-0) = 5 pts

4 points (21):

willing to live
in the inner city
a true sparrow

#008 Ernesto P. Santiago, Solano, Philippines

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

v   

mating time...
choice hen dribbles rooster
in a hot chase

#012 Theophilus Femi Alawonde, Ogbomosho, Oyo, Nigeria

(0-2-0) = 4 pts

v   

the seagulls

on the breakwaters

dotting the I’s

#048 Marie Derley, Ath, Belgium

(0-2-0) = 4 pts

v   

Good heavens -
my grandson's first idea
angry birds

#058 Heinz Schneemann, Berlin, Germany

(0-2-0) =  4 pts

v   

Humming bird

a rainbow of senses

between us​

#064 Adam Šuligoj, Maribor, Slovenia

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

v   

garden pond

a heron lies in ambush

for the goldfish

#065 Pitt Büerken, Münster, Germany

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

v   

walking

the length of the sunset

owl call

#070 Andy McLellan, Canterbury, UK

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

v   

along the highway
on foot
the pheasant

#096 Sylvia Bacher, Bad Aussee, Austria

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

a robin's egg

on the sidewalk

hands in my pockets

#105 Steve Smolak  Murphysboro, Illinois, USA

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

he knocks loud

on my metal ladder

a woodpecker

#122 Helga Schulz Blank, Esslingen/Neckar, Germany

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

college campus
a woodpecker masters
pecking a tree

#131 Rosa Clement, Manaus, Brazil

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

v   

wildlife care centre -

the old eagle forgotten

by the spring wind

#146 Dan Iulian, Bucharest, Romania

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

rain offshore

the speckled feathers

of a dead gull

#152 Polona Oblak, Ljubljana, Slovenia

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

chatting

about the weather

birds on the cable

#157 Anthony Q. Rabang, Vigani City, Philippines

(0-0-4) = 4 pts

v   

starry night

an eagle finishing

leftovers

#163 Stanka Parusheva, Yambol, Bulgaria

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

chainsaws roar
the silence of
tree sparrows

#167 Billy Antonio, Laoac, Philippines

(0-2-0) = 4 pts

v   

single again
buying a budgerigar
I tell him 'pretty boy!'

#182 Marietta McGregor, Canberra, Australia

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

autumn
black birds` horizon
is full of a rain

#185 Andrey Larionov, Samara, Russia

(0-2-0) = 4 pts

v   

kind news

white storks 

in the village

#202 Lilia Racheva, Russe, Bulgaria

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

after harmattan...
a dove returns
to a leafless mahogany

#230 Blessmond Alebna Ayinbire, Bolgatanga, Ghana

(1-0-1) = 4 pts

v   

gentle breeze

through checkpoints

the skylark's song 

#232 Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă, Botoşani, Romania

(0-1-2) = 4 pts

3 points (31):

first blossoms
at yellow bell shrub
greenfinches

#011 Silvia Kempen, Apen, Germany

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

in the park
child feeds pigeon
Who is happier?

#040 Nelly Dobrinova, Sofia, Bulgaria

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

building site symphony
a pair of water ouzels
composes its nest

#042 Sonja Raab, Opponitz, Austria

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

almost spring

only the robins standing

out in the crowd

#043 Robert Kingston, Essex, United Kingdom

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

a twitter --
a message from birds
to sunrise

#046 Magdalena Tchórzewska, Warszawa, Poland

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

invisible cocks
wake up the horizon  
year of fiery cock

#053 Stoianka Boianova, Sofia, Bulgaria

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

sunlit wren song

the wet country road

glittering

#056 Helge Torvund, Ogna, Norway

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

first day of spring:

lovebirds singing outside

his hospice window

#071Nurit Israeli, New York, USA

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

evening duskiness –

a seagull looks for remains

among empty cans

#072 Branka Vojinović Jegdić, Podgorica, Montenegro

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

Wings cut

Thru humid air

Thoughts flared open

#075 Hanne Westrum Hvammen, Larvik, Norway

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

Swell sunrise
on frosty branches
Drops drip
Droppings
drop

#076 Andreas Wensaas Hvammen, Larvik, Norway

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

Sunbathing river gods -
shadow shields on rapids's spray
of cormorant wings 

#082 Valeria Barouch, Geneva, Switzerland

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

my mother alone

at tea time

but a robin appears

#097 Claude Lagadec, Saumur, France

(0-0-3) = 3 pts

v   

with bloody beaks

picking bread from beggar palms

doves of peace

#098 Dainius Dirgėla, Vilnius, Lithuania

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

all its tension

for my left over day-

a rooster

#106 Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, Hyderabad, India

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

borderland 

the call of

migrating cranes 

#115 Eva Limbach, Saarbrücken, Germany

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

new daffodils

beneath the kitchen window

a robin hops

#124 RD McManes, Topeka, KS, USA

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

shot

next to a blooming primrose

the pheasant's last cry

#126 Vladimir Ludvig, Dubravica, Croatia

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

chicken chirps

so hard to approach

the sky

#127 Marco Pilotto, Piazzola Sul Brenta, Padova, Italia

(1-0-0) = 3 pkt

v   

mother bird-

body flies alone

soul left in nest

#134 Munia Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

March in the park -

from each of sides

philharmonic

#144 Wiesław Karliński, Namysłów, Poland

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

pair of eagles

no one scratch

in the sky

#161 Milena Veleva, Sofia, Bulgaria

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

flaps of dove's wings

muffled in the crossfire –

peace talks

#168 Indra Neil Mekala, Rajamahendravaram, India

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

A flying bird

traveling with clouds-

search a sound life's goal.

#172 Ram Sharan Maharjan, Kathmandu, Nepal

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

a heron's call
slips into a lover's quarrel
sudden silence

#174 Benjamin Bläsi, Wünnewil, Switzerland

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

In Flanders Fields

Above the blowing poppies

A skylark, silent

#186 Hartmut Fillhardt, Martinsthal, Germany

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

call of the skylark -

in ruins of an abbey

spring starts with prayer

#208 Tomasz Szymczak, Chojnice, Poland

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

mountain hiking

pure silence ... then

a raven's echoing croak

#210 Per Snublefot, Oslo, Norway

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

cloud of nouns
we drift around in our
marital quarrel

#220 Birgit Heid, Landau, Germany

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

v   

morning birds chirping -

I cannot control my thoughts

breaking out loud

#222 Miruna Covor, Bucharest, Romania

(0-1-1) = 3 pts

v   

looks jealously
at the key of wild geese
the wooden crane

#238 Zbigniew Mysłowiecki, Warsaw, Poland

(1-0-0) = 3 pts

2 points (22):

cold winter

a partridge walks

on the playground

#030 Gergana Yaninska, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

they gather on
the empty bird-table
...day of the funeral

#032 John McDonald, Edinburgh, Scotland

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

whistling tenderly

a yellow beak calls:

I'm here, darling!

#033 Smajil Durmisević, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

greenush blue

moves swiftly up up -

bluish cat eye

#034 Arik Benedek Chaviv, Gyvataym, Israel

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

Roman stadium
a procession of seagulls
in the night sky

#047 Minko Tanev, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

boarder dispute
two doves duel
for the peace

#049 Beatrice Zebre, Accra, Ghana

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

the light snow
the bluejay drops a berry
red

#050 Bernard Gieske, Bowling Green, KY, USA

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

birds of the dream

falling trees cut down

for firewood

#051 Neringa Vyšniauskienė, Kaunas, Lithuania

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

Seagulls soaring

in silent serenity ...

sea sentinels

#081 Keith A. Simmonds, Rodez, France

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

playing passionately

just below the young bud

the reel of birds

#088 Vladimir  Šuk, Oroslavje, Croatia

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

cliff -

a seagull regurgitates

small fish

#089 Pasquale Asprea, Genova, Italy

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

hawk scream
in the housing estate sky
she didn't looked up

#090 Pavel S.Vorontsov, Novosibirsk, Russia

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

tired from their flight

they are looking for the nest

in a deserted stable

#100 Rita Stokić Brgić, Manjadvorci-Barban, Croatia

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

tweets and more tweets
all the disturbing news
from sparrowland

#103 Joann Grisetti, Winter Springs, FL, USA

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

the early songbirds
spread the petals of cherry
spring waltz

#130 Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan, Rijeka, Croatia

(0-0-2) = 2 pts

v   

surface tension –

Pacific Black ducklings

snap at mosquitoes

#132 Lorin Ford, Melbourne, Australia

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

cockcrow

I spread my feathers

and attune

#138 Gabriele Hartmann, Hoechstenbach, Germany

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

rooted -

in this hometown sky

a starlings ballet...

#140 Adrian Bouter, Gouda, Netherlands

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

Rain on lake -

the ducks rush

under willow

#170 Nazarena Rampini, Pogliano Milanese, Italy

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

third cocks

still awake

the cat in love 

#183 Pepa Odjakova, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

(0-0-2) = 2 pts

v   

bush warblers

twittering into

a love song

#206 Hidenori Hiruta, Akita, Japan

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

v   

hunters moon rising

the mysterious hooter

gets a silhouette

#221 Jon Espen Vassbotn, Kristiansand, Norway

(0-1-0) = 2 pts

1 point (25):

house martin
squirming in its last year's nest
three new  eggs

#014 Marija Pogorilić, Rovinj, Croatia

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

flashing her tail
the squawking cockatoo
finds a mate

#024 Barbara A. Taylor, Mountain Top, NSW, Australia

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

deserted farm

shadow  of the house martin

visited the well

#031 Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

discoloured bruises

amongst the autumn windfall

orchard crows

#059 John Hawkhead, Bradford/Avon, United Kingdom

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

waiting for barn owls
a screech
of brakes in the distance

#066 Tracy Davidson, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

Facing the wind

a motionless seagull-

Relativity.

#095 Francesco Gonella, Padova, Italy

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

peace in danger -
an old man is sharing his bread
with grey pigeons

#102 Wolfgang Rödig, Mitterfels, Germany

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

At the cry of a plover

the referee's whistle replies

yellow card

#104 Richard Jodoin, Montréal, Canada

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

mistletoe

perhaps stork's nest

still green

#113 Maria Piasecka, Pruszków, Poland

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

a flock of cranes

crossing another border

trumpeting

#114 Svend A. Doggfall, Oslo, Norway

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

silhouette sunset
a flock of flying
paper birds

#141 Ramesh Anand, Bengaluru, India

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

seven swallows

gossip on telephone wires

humming with current

#147 Mark Gilbert, Nottingham, United Kingdom

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

swan

running on its shadow

running on water

#162 Adjei Agyei-Baah, Kumasi, Ghana

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

cold spring

neither swallow nor stork

bird flu ?

#165 Artur Lewandowski, Sieradz, Polska

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

A swan floats
by a kid ball.
Why does my heart flutter?

#176 Stanka Boneva, Varna, Bulgaria

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

frantic squirrel…

a hawk spreads its wings and lands

in the old tree

#177 Ed Bremson, Raleigh, NC, USA

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

wary

of approaching footsteps 

...hummingbirds

#181 Willie R. Bongcaron, Manila, Philippines

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

dad's prognosis

the cherry blossoms 

fall to a raven

#184 Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, Birmingham, United Kingdom

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

long white contrails

on deep blue sky

my missed silver bird

#191 Frode Ljoberg, Oslo, Norway

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

flying in spring-

beak holding a twig

for a new nest

#195 Doris Pascolo, Milano, Italy

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

churchyard bench 

the man who hits me

feeds a flock 

of pigeons

#205 Roberta Beary, Washington, DC, USA

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

Nowadays the dove

doesn't brings an olive branch

but an I-phone case!

#218 Marcel Domonkos, Celldömölk, Hungary

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

flying bird --

the national flag 

on victory day 

#219 Quamrul Hassan, Dhaka, Bangladesh

(0-0-1) = 1 pts

v   

Full moon -

shadows of the nighthawks

form a monster.

#226 Iffat Jahan Suchona, Dhaka, Bangladesh

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

v   

a robin stares --
my cheeks are flushed
as I turn the soil

#229 James Dobson, Prudhoe, United Kingdom

(0-0-1) = 1 pt

no points this time (45):

Peacock Grove

flashing a smile

behind her fan

#015 Simon Hanson, Tamborine, Australia

v   

gulls glancing back
as they walk away
last of the snow

#020 Ignatius Fay, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

v   

cloning...
the sun's retreat
draws white birds dark

#022 Pamela Kuadegbeku, Accra, Ghana

v   

The sparrow on the wire

shaking the snow from the wings

bird´s nest ruined

#026 Ružica Soldo, Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina

v   

the spring sea on my right
and a lark’s song on my left…
in between two noises

#045 Goda V. Bendoraitiene, Klaipeda, Lithuania

v   

latest news --

the pond's icy surface

full of stress cracks

#067 Ramona Linke, Salzatal/Beesenstedt, Germany

v   

snow showers leave
nesting birds confused -
April Fools' Day

#068 Natalia Kuznetsova, Moscow, Russia

v   

all the spring day long

it sings on the winter branch –

some summer bird

#069 Natalia Sedenkova, Samara, Russia

v   

how to tell twin sisters...

the olderone feeds the seagulls

the younger one the swan 

#073 Hristina Pandjaridis, Illkirch, Bulgaria

v   

High and slow

the storks fly.

Sparrows are in a hurry.

#074 David Rodrigues, Lisbon, Portugal

v   

In the highway ditch
four, five crows hacking into
some snow-covered carrion

#080 Horst Ludwig, St. Peter, MN, USA

v   

longing for love

in a nightingale song . . .

resounding grove 

#108 Jovanka Božić, Valjevo, Serbia

v   

Eastern sky

a flock of geese 

out of sunrise

#118 Ajaya Mahala, Pune, India

v   

not a frequent flyer
that nice big yellow bird
at 123 Sesame street

#120 Janko Dimnjaković, Zagreb, Croatia

v   

scorching noon rays
reflects off the vacant skull
vulture gazes

#129 Tahera Mannan, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

v   

the night birds:

owls prey in the wood

boys in the club

#137 Franjo Ordanić, Oroslavje, Croatia

v   

birds of heaven
return home together
with the spring

#148 Vitali Khomin, Mukachevo, Ukraine

v   

unwritten songs -
with peacocks baked clay
sepulcher  Pharaoh

#150 Silvestru Miclăuş, Roma, Italy / Romania

v   

There the bird goes away,

free from the kite's line –

My pecked fingers.

#151 Franklin Magalhães, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

v   

Seashore

Spooring on the sand

Is end suddenly

#153 Jonas Vaicekauskas, Siauliai, Lithuania

v   

wings fan the air
swallow takes flight...
an empty barn

#154 Pat Geyer, East Brunswick, USA

v   

wild lovebird - 

he learns to 

fly only

#155 Sudebi Singha, Kolkata, India

v   

Swans are fed

At the opera

Ducks get nothing

#156 Thor Henriksen, Oslo, Norway

v   

along the river
   my fast flowing thoughts and crows

           watching me fearfully

#159 Lilija Olshaukiene, Kaunas, Lithuania

v   

faltering geese
circle around honking-
melancholy

#164 Severa Disingrini, Cremona, Italy

v   

whoosh of wing feathers

aiming far, not giving up…

till the Flood subsides.

#166 Tanja Cilia, Fleur de Lys, Malta

v   

a morning bath

feathers from pigeons

upon the snowdrops

#169 Maya Kisyova, Sofia, Bulgaria

v   

snow newly laid -

just the footsteps

of a sparrow

#171 Elisa Allo, Zug, Switzerland

v   

vacation home -
starlings went back into him
before me

#173 Evgeny Ivanov, Moscow, Russia

v   

darkening

the crow's weight...

winter deepens

#175 Brendon Kent, Southampton, England

v   

swallow
air-gliding the pond
spring dancer

#178 Maureen Sudlow, Whanganui, New Zealand

v   

migrating birds -

how the sun kisses

a deserted hopscotch 

#188 Arvinder Kaur, Chandigarh, India

v   

warm May’s evenings
soar above the water
a silent Bittern’s cry

#189 Nijolė Kerušauskienė, Kaunas, Lithuania

v   

first light

it's for the birds -

back to my dream

#190 Freddy Ben-Arroyo, Haifa, Israel

v   

trills of chaffinch -
my grandmother planting
a madonna lily

#193 Maria Tirenescu, Cugir, Romania

v   

black-capped chickadees

warbling in the holly tree-- 

nested Russian dolls 

#194 Devin Harrison, Vancouver Island, Canada

v   

mild spell

singing together

me and the great tit

#197 Eleonore Nickolay, Vaires sur Marne, France

v   

leaving behind..

graffiti on my washing
as they flap past 

#204 Madhuri Pillai, Melbourne, Australia

v   

The songs of birds

And races with the winds

Feeling in spring.

#207 Virginija Sakalauskiene, Raudondvaris, Lithuania

v   

Sky adorned by wings.
The day blossoms
within the spring song.

#209 Antoaneta Karaivanova-Pavlova, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

v   

A caged spirit

Wishes to flutter away

With the autumn gale

#212 Tara Sattar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

v   

Revived again

nest under the roof

swallows returning

#213 Zlata Bogović, Varaždin, Croatia

v   

plaid on legs-

here and there on the grass

a magpie

#223 Angiola Inglese, Rapallo, Italy

v   

fledgling cries—
the imaginary order
to mother's song

#224 Tom Sacramona, Plainville, MA, USA

v   

street lamp,
of the chat owl wings
total ecllipse

#235 Kristina Kroupa, Ivanić-Grad, Croatia

no results – authors who didn’t voted (9):

your sandy footprints

blow away in the wind--

spring dusk

#027 Tatjana Debeljački, Užice, Serbia

v   

cold stream

a heron

stands guard

#087 Mark Gilfillan, London, United Kingdom

v   

Beaks, paws, warm blood

They are just

WINGS......

#112 Neelam Sangwai, Mumbai, India

v   

Looking at the sky

Closed in the cage

The peace pigeon

#117 Igor Damnjanovic, Belgrade, Serbia

v   

they twitter through 

blue worshiping                        

galaxy  

#123 S. Radhamani  Sarma, Chennai, India

v   

grandmother’s afghan

the skein of geese

fly out the window

#145 Jim Krotzman, Sun Prairie, USA

v   

full moon
kookaburras fail
to settle on a greygum

#179 John Wainwright, Brisbane, Australia

v   

dense fog –

chirping of a sparrow flock

flies out of the bush

#217 Tomislav Maretić, Zagreb, Croatia

v   

roses are prone to ceremonies

daisies are always open

and kiss the nose

#227 Evgenii Plekhanov, Kirov, Russia

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