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lighthouse
the black around us
sliced

– July 1

a flash of white wings
in the corner of my eye
gone in one blink

– August 13

our measure
of summer days
inchworm

– September 10

aircraft landing
a sparrow hops
aside

– December 16

Full details can be accessed through the following link:

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160419/p2a/00m/0na/023000d

Congratulations to Australian haiku poet Jan Dobb for gaining second place in the 2016 Wild Plum Haiku Contest:

drifts of leaves
we listen to the colours
of grandma’s tales

– Jan Dobb

Another Australian haiku poet – Jayashree Maniyil – gained the First Honourable Mention in the same competition:

crackle of twigs
everywhere the smoke
gathering the sky

– Jayashree Maniyil

Full results – with comments from the judge an’ya – can be viewed through this link:

https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/haiku-contest/

Simon Hanson is to be congratulated for having one of his poems short-listed in The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems, as recently posted on The Haiku Foundation website, viewable at this link:

http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2015-3/

desert stones
slowly their shadows
change sides

— Simon Hanson, Wild Plum — a haiku journal 1:2

Another leading Australian haiku poet – Ron C. Moss – was one of the panelists for these awards, after his book “The Bone Carver” had received a Touchstone Award last year (just as it received an Honourable Mention in the Mildred Kanterman Book Award, as a Merit Book Award for 2015 – for books published in 2014 – through the Haiku Society of America).

Tash Adams from Perth, Australia won first place: this is the third time an Australian author has won (after Simon Hanson – 11th Kukai; and Beverley George – 8th Kukai) –

leaving him
one kilo
at a time

– Tash Adams – first place

mountain peak
the rising edge
of a muezzin’s call

– Jayashree Maniyil – sixth place

For a full report, please visit http://europeankukai.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/results-of-european-quarterly-kukai-13.html

Please consider participating in the next quarterly kukai, while also enjoying these remaining entries from Australia below: