The 2nd Modern Kigo Project Competition‘SPRING Season’ 2022

  

JUDGES: Réka Nyitrai & Alan Peat

 

Honourable mention

Dan Iulian (Romania)

 

KIGO: abyssal blue

DEFINITION:

The color of the clear Spring sky, long seen when you lie on back in the grass, having the feeling that you are floating or sinking, as in a slow fall upward, without time, in a deeper and deeper blue, in which you abandon yourself and nothing maters anymore.

 

HAIKU:

 

abyssal blue

on the eagle’s wings

the sky so lightweight

 

Alan Peat’s judge comments:

When one reads the word ‘abyssal’ the depths of an ocean immediately come to mind. The poet cleverly  inverts   this  image,   rendering   the  sky   itself   abyssal.  The  idea  that something so huge might be so light also appealed to me. The kigo is ‘open’ enough to provide poets with a multitude of possibilities.

 

Réka Nyitrai ’s judge comments:

I like how the poet describes deep blue! The image of the sky resting on the eagle’s wings, lightly, easily is not only fresh, but memorable, too.

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