Indian Kukai #14

I made it to 7th Place in the 14th edition of the Indian Kukai. 93 participants graced the 14th Kukai, and they came from 26 different countries. Click the link below to read the results.

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black coffee
quietly I sip the last
remaining stars

Billy Antonio
[Laoac, Philippines]
(4,1,3)=15pts



http://indiankukai.blogspot.com/2015/12/results-of-indian-kukai-14.html

brass bell: a haiku journal (September 2015)

ironing clothes outside a falling star

   - Billy Antonio

http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com

Wild Plum - a haiku journal

Gabriel Sawicki to you

Hi Billy,

I'm happy to accept haiga "the stillness" for the anthology. 

We'd also like to publish "four-leaf clover" in Haiga Corner of the following issue of Wild Plum. It will be specal feature for the best haiga that won't appear in anthology. Please let me know if you agree.

Best wishes,

Gabriel

2015-07-30 7:38 GMT+02:00 Gabriel Sawicki <wildplumhaiku@gmail.com>:

Indian Kukai #12 - Boomerang

foreign moon
a broken boomerang
in my drawer 

Billy Antonio [Laoac, Pangasinan, Philippines]
(3,2,0) = 7 pts

Click the link http://indiankukai.blogspot.com/

Shiki Kukai May 2015 (Kigo)

rainy season

finding an anthill

full of grains

 

Billy Antonio

Laoac, Philippines

(0,0,1) = 1 pts

Shiki Kukai May 2015 (Free Format)

returning home

on the rusted gate

a rusted padlock

 

Billy Antonio

Laoac, Philippines

(0,1,4) = 6 pts

**Reversing the order of lines 2 and 3 and dropping the second "rusted," would raise this a couple of notches.

130th WHA Haiga Contest

http://tfship.net/haiga_contest/130/billy_antonio_philp.html

Midwinter Haiku Contest Semi-Finalists and Honorable Mentions Shambhala Times Community News Magazine | Shambhala Times Community News Magazine

Midwinter Haiku Contest Semi-Finalists and Honorable Mentions Shambhala Times Community News Magazine | Shambhala Times Community News Magazine

Poetry Quarterly Winter 2014

My poem "Patintero" got published in Poetry Quarterly Issue #20. http://prolificpress.com/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=106

Wild Plum 1:1 Spring and Summer 2015

I have a haiku published in the first issue of the Wild Plum -a haiku journal.


evening prayer
a house lizard falls
on the floor


https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/

Carribean Kigo Kukai #56

Yay! I won 2nd Place in the 56th Carribean Kigo Kukai.


21
first dance
the girl stares at
her new pair of shoes
Votes: 651***Points: 19

Indian Kukai # 9

62

slicing onions
outside the window
a lone heron flies away

Billy Antonio [Laoac, Philippines] ( 3, 2, 0 ) = 7 pts

126th WHA Haiga Contest

I have a haiga featured in the 126th World Haiku Association Haiga Contest
Judge and comments by Kuniharu Shimizu

Asahi Haikuist Network

I have a haiku about Urashima Taro published in the Asahi Haikuist Network, January 30, 2015. Thanks to David Mcmurray.

Younger moon
finding Urashima Taro
at 40

19th Shiki Kukai

Yay! I won Second Place in the 19th Shiki Kukai Kigo Section. The kigo theme was "New Year Visitors".

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Second Place -   28 Points

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New Year visit

a gathering of shoes

at the doorstep

 

Billy Antonio

Laoac, Philippines

(1,6,13) = 28 pts

**A lovely picture, and the imagination can provide the story.

Free format section

Theme: eyewear

late sunset

rereading her old love letters

wearing eyeglasses

 

Billy Antonio

Laoac, Pangasinan

(0,1,2) = 4 pts

 

My 2014 Harvest

Last year yielded a good harvest. I won some awards and published some haiku, a tanka, a couple of haiga, and two poems. Thank you to all the editors, haiku contests judges, and fellow haiku poets for all of these.

Awards/Recognitions

                        International

Ø  First Place, Free Format Section in the 18^th Shiki Kukai, December 2014 (USA)

Ø  Second Place, Free Format Section in the 17^th Shiki Kukai, October 2014 (USA)

Ø  Third Place, Indian Kukai #7, September 2014 (India)

Ø  Honorable Mention, Diogen Spring 2014 Tanka Contest

Ø  Third Place, Diogen Spring 2014 Haiku Contest 

Publications in print and online books, magazines and journal

            International

Ø  “monsoon rains”, “mountain mist” in Akitsu Quarterly

Winter 2014 (USA)

Ø  “northeast monsoon” in the Asahi Shimbun, December 5, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “All Soul’s Day” in the Mainichi Daily News, December 4, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “full moon” in the Asahi Shimbun, November 21, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “old carromata”, “chill wind” in Sharpening the Green Pencil The Book of the Contest 2014 (Romania)

Ø  “my wife on Skype” in Tamarind Magazine Issue #12, November 2014 (Australia)

Ø  “summer vacation” in Hedgerow: a journal of small poems Issue #7, November 7, 2014 (UK)

Ø  “monsoon evening” in Three Line Poetry Issue 29, 2014 (USA)

Ø  “quiet pond” in the Mainichi Daily News, November 7, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “old gate”, “sudden wind” in the 6^th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest Selected Haiku Submissions Collection, July 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “early morning” in the Asahi Shimbun, October 17, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “paddy field” in the Asahi Shimbun, September 19, 2014 (Japan)

Ø  “meteor shower” in the European Quarterly Kukai #8, December 2014 (Europe)

Ø  “slow sunrise” in the Indian Kukai #8 (India)

Ø  “missing moon” in the Shiki Kukai #17, October 2014 (USA)

Ø  “countdown to Christmas” in the Carribean Kigo Kukai #55, October 2014 (Trinidad and Tobago)

Ø  “spiders fight” in the European Quarterly Kukai #7, September 2014 (Europe)

Ø  “shifting clouds” in the Indian Kukai #6, July 2014 (India)

Ø  “dewdrops” in the European Quarterly Kukai #6, June 2014 (Europe)

Ø  “fruitless tree” in the Indian Kukai #5, May 2014 (India)

Ø  “summer vacation” in the European Quarterly Kukai #5, March 2014 (Europe)

Ø  “ancestral house” in the Indian Kukai #4, March 2014 (India)

Ø  “late afternoon” in Hedgerow: a journal of small poems Issue #7, November 7, 2014 (UK)

Ø  “A Photograph” in the Penwood Review Fall 2014 (USA)

Ø  “At Sunrise” in Rose Red Review Issue No. 8 Spring 2014, (USA)

Ø  “chill wind” in the 125^th World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, November 2014

Ø  “noon break” ” in the 124th World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, October 2014

Ø  “soft light” in the 123rd World Haiku Association Haiga Contest, September 2014

The 18th Mainichi Haiku Contest

Yay! I won an Honorable Mention in the International Section of the 18th Mainichi Haiku Contest (Japan) judged by Professor Toru Haga. Click the link for the complete contest results.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/haiku/etc/pdf/MainichiHaikuContest2014.pdf