The Caribbean Kigo 'International Haiku Poetry Day' Kukai 2020.

Theme for this kukai was social distancing


SECOND PLACE
13
confined at home...
again around the world
with Phileas Fogg

--Cezar Florescu
VOTE: 313*** SCORE: 14

COMMENT: Reading always helps us escape on bad days, all the more so today. Fine contrast between the imaginary travel around the world and our house arrest.
COMMENT 2:The imagination compensates for what is missing in reality. We fulfill our needs in dreams and fantasies
COMMENT 3: I enjoyed your literary reference, and the little lift in the last line.
COMMENT 4: Takes me back to my childhood

RESULTS CONTINUES

1
lockdown -
only his warm words
reach me

--Ana Drobot (Bucharest, Romania)
VOTE: 3***** SCORE: 03

3
my daughter’s birthday -
I show her the present
via the video chat

Mona Iordan, Romania
VOTE: 2***** SCORE: 02

10
confinement
the cock's song
in D minor

--Florin Golban, Bucuresti, Romania
VOTE: 221*** SCORE:09

COMMENT: I must confess I had to find out what D minor is, discovering that it’s considered the saddest key; so all the poem comes alive, giving a strong sense of melancholy.
COMMENT 2:Through the anxieties of this lockdown, life outside in nature's world carries on...a light-hearted haiku trying to make light of a heavy situation. Nice 'sonic' tone in this brief poem.
COMMENT: I don't think you can say what scale a rooster is using, but I think the idea is that the bird also suffers due to the pandemic too or maybe the man hears it in a different way than as usually, making a shrill noise, to show that he no longer tolerates the self-isolation...


12
self-isolation
the plum tree near the window
my only friend
--Cristina Apetrei
VOTE: 121*** SCORE: 08

COMMENT: The isolation imposed can make a person sick... man is not accustomed to stay at home as in a cage, that's why looks for help from nature. a blossomed tree next to the window is a way to don not become insane... its image is a lesson of survival...

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