The World Haiku Festival 2000 Kukai at Royal
Parks
London - August 2000
18/07/02
Dear Kuyu,
The World Haiku Club is planning a number of kukai and competitions during the
WHF2002/Basho Journey this coming September. Recently, a record of the results
of the London's Royal Parks Kukai which was held during the WHF2000 London &
Oxford two years ago has been unearthed all of a sudden. The record had been
lost together with all other documents of WHF2000 when computer melt-down
destroyed the files in it.
The Royal Parks Kukai was held one fine August day in 2000 in the Kew Gardens,
St. James's Park, Kensington Gardens and finally in Regent's Park. All the haiku
poems were collected in late afternoon at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese House and
while everyone was enjoying the English tea party, a panel of judges were busy
selecting the winners.
The following are the ten winning poems in ten
different categories. They were announced in the haiku reading session in the
evening and then the poems were read to the audience and prizes awarded:
[1] A good example of urban haiku:
one seat on the tube
she looks at me
and steps away
DeVar Dahl
[2] A haiku which best suggests a city park:
tourists chatter
in a muddle of languages --
the cackle of geese
Martin Lucas
[3] A haiku with nostalgia:
London
Japanese Garden...
How I miss
The cicada¡'s song!
Inga Uhlemann
[4] A haiku with a sense of humour:
A goose and a guest
Enjoying the London Park
Both came from Canada
Hanna Hansen
[5] A haiku with classic juxtaposition:
a long speech --
a large gray cloud
finally passes
Jim Kacian
[6] A haiku which reflects Basho's spirit:
tracing the ripple
and losing it
drifting clouds
Rob Scott
[7] A haiku that best expresses human
nature:
the photographer begs
"Can you pretend again
to write haiku
Zinovy Vayman
[8] A haiku that best reflects the natural
world:
Giant oak branches
So wide, so heavy
Skim the lawn
Carmen Sterba
[9] A haiku with renga elegance:
a flutter of orange
in autumn breeze
lands on grass
Amelia Mervis
[10] A haiku in the spirit of Issa:
under cloudy skies
a gander and a boy
hiss at each other
Visnja McMaster
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