(214 = 12) would indicate that the poem above received two 3-point votes, one 2-point vote, and four 1-point votes.

April 2006 Results
Kigo Theme: Wildflowers	Free Format Theme: Rock or Stone
First Place -- 22 pts February wind wanting to believe the crocus Bill Kenney (2,5,6) = 22 pts Second Place -- 17 pts goat path the wild violets nibbled by shadows Darrell Lindsey (1,3,8) = 17 pts Third Place -- 15 pts daylight savings poppies still open after supper Mark Hollingsworth (1,3,6) = 15 pts urban jungle. . . wildflowers thrive among the graffiti Kathy Lippard Cobb (1,3,6) = 15 pts marsh marigolds-- a turtle going somewhere Ami (1,2,8) = 15 pts bordering the road not taken wildflowers Tom Painting (1,1,10) = 15 pts Fourth Place -- 14 pts two dragonflies tango on a wildflower Simply Maire (0,5,4) = 14 pts Fifth Place -- 13 pts lonely stroll forget-me-nots the color of her eyes RaV (0,1,11) = 13 pts wild flax— a minute of blue sky on a cloudy day DeVar (1,2,6) = 13 pts Sixth Place -- 12 pts broken curfew she brings home a wild rose Dave Bacharach (1,0,9) = 12 pts deep woods-- lady slippers just quietly there Mary Lee McClure (1,0,9) = 12 pts tugging my hand she leads me to a wildflower we've just passed Beverley George (0,1,10) = 12 pts Seventh Place -- 11 pts here and there pink ladies gossip in the tall grass Melanie Alberts (1,1,6) = 11 pts campaign promises... a wild rose wilts on the candidate's lapel ed markowski (1,2,4) = 11 pts Eighth Place -- 10 pts for your fragrance, I gladly bend low, wild violet! Tom (1,2,3) = 10 pts college expansion— yellow lady slippers yellow bulldozers Elizabeth Fanto (0,3,4) = 10 pts Ninth Place -- 9 pts lily-of-the-valley: a scent so much bigger than the tiny bells Agnes Eva Savich (1,1,4) = 9 pts moon viewing the wild iris luminous Margarita Engle (1,2,2) = 9 pts wild daisies - the abandoned cabin well protected Audrey Downey (1,3,0) = 9 pts someone starts to whistle and stops sidewalk violets David Boyer (1,1,4) = 9 pts Tenth Place -- 8 pts the weight of one footstep... avalanche lilies Laryalee Fraser (1,1,3) = 8 pts wild orchids -- his faltering hand on her grave Jacqueline Powers (0,0,8) = 8 pts wildflower painting . . . I can almost feel the wind Marie Summers (0,2,4) = 8 pts scattered stones - a couple of snowdrops nodding to the moon Ellen Compton (0,2,4) = 8 pts Eleventh Place -- 7 pts courthouse-- she fidgets with the fireweed bouquet aom (tim) (1,2,0) = 7 pts red clover- black bears loll in the hum Rap (1,0,4) = 7 pts dandelions— calico kittens stalk honeybees Edward 0,2,3) = 7 pts evening warmth. . . in his hands a cluster of wild lilies Kala Ramesh (0,1,5) = 7 pts Twelfth Place -- 6 pts village road in the cloud of dust fragrance of wildflowers Zeljka Vucinic-Jambresic (0,1,4) = 6 pts funeral procession -- waving at the roadside poppies max verhart (0,1,4) = 6 pts wildflowers! I follow her bark into a field of butterflies angelee deodhar (0,1,4) = 6 pts solemn burial by the forget-me-nots baby sparrow -- ushi (0,1,4) = 6 pts dandelions— the scent of new asphalt Andrew Riutta (0,2,2) = 6 pts bus departure - a field of waving wildflowers Israel López Balan (0,0,6) = 6 pts Thirteenth Place -- 5 pts wildflowers dance whirling up the mountainside into morning sun po sey toon (1,0,2) = 5 pts is there a heaven? from the hospice window wild forget-me-knots Nancy Smith (0,2,1) = 5 pts making a wish on the buttercup -- yellow chin Betty Kaplan (0,0,5) = 5 pts morning glories synchronizing all the clocks Laura Orabone (0,0,5) = 5 pts wrong side of town- cracked sidewalks overgrown with dandelions William A. Lane (0,0,5) = 5 pts Fourteenth Place -- 4 pts wildflowers crushed in a tiny fist -- his smile eclipses their brilliance --- Aalix Roake (0,1,2) = 4 pts Hepatica closes its petals for the night – my baby, his eyes Zhanna P. Rader (0,1,2) = 4 pts blind date I pick wildflowers Amitava Dasgupta (0,1,2) = 4 pts mountain top wedding the bride wears a crown of daisies Richmond Williams (0,1,2) = 4 pts by the road bluebonnet clusters -- one white cross James M. Thompson (0,1,2) = 4 pts poor but proud, wildflowers adorn her Easter bonnet Tristan Coleridge (0,0,4) = 4 pts morning commute red clover in bloom slows me down Jennifer Soule (0,0,4) = 4 pts thunderstorm-- all the goldenrod flattened by hail -- oino sakai (0,0,4) = 4 pts Fifteenth Place -- 3 pts Snakeroot nodding along the trail yes, yes Paul Hunter (0,1,1) = 3 pts creeping around the garden gate - wildflowers doris kasson (0,1,1) = 3 pts bleeding heart arrives by overnight express Suzume Shi (0,1,1) = 3 pts April, Wild thyme in the Zen garden smzang (0,0,3) = 3 pts wild rose... a petal comes loose, lifts in the breeze Vaughn Seward (0,0,3) = 3 pts wild violets so quiet when I bend over them Petar Tchouhov (0,0,3) = 3 pts	First Place -- 26 pts midnight moon the coldness of a stone bench Laryalee Fraser (0,5,16) = 26 pts Second Place -- 22 pts home... I forget the pebble in my shoe citygirl (0,7,8) = 22 pts Third Place -- 21 pts not noticing the tiny flowers on the rock until the butterfly Tom (0,5,11) = 21 pts Fourth Place -- 19 pts skipping stones I learn the meaning of release Tom Painting (0,5,9) = 19 pts Fifth Place -- 14 pts at the foot of the climbing-rock - mom doris kasson (1,3,5) = 14 pts teenage daughter the smooth surface of a worry stone Dave Bacharach (1,2,7) = 14 pts the baby mother never talks about... moss-covered rock --Irene Golas (0,3,8) = 14 pts bonsai forest the suiseki stone mountain four inches tall Margarita Engle (0,3,8) = 14 pts Sixth Place -- 13 pts father's funeral sound of gravel louder with every step Gabriel Sawicki (1,1,8) = 13 pts prairie road my pocket chinks with agates -- ushi (0,4,5) = 13 pts spring thaw the rock garden first to bloom Paul R (0,3,7) = 13 pts narrow canyon... a child drops a pebble into the depths Vaughn Seward (0,2,9) = 13 pts Seventh Place -- 11 pts still water - no flat stone to be found Audrey Downey (0,2,7) = 11 pts Eighth Place -- 9 pts fog and stone . . . I release your ashes to the tide Kathy Lippard Cobb (0,2,5) = 9 pts Ninth Place -- 8 pts unmoved-- those silent lichened rocks Mary Lee McClure (0,1,6) = 8 pts skipping stones: I get a kiss for each splash -- lucindab (0,1,6) = 8 pts mayflowers a child fills her basket from the headstones Ellen Compton (2,0,2) = 8 pts July heat goats among the stones graze the crickets' song Boris Nazansky (1,2,1) = 8 pts impending rain the crack and scent of two flint stones Agnes Eva Savich (1,0,5) = 8 pts a boulder totally immersed in memory max verhart (0,2,4) = 8 pts spring beach... a baby crab climbs its first rock Keiko Izawa (0,0,8) = 8 pts Tenth Place -- 7 pts Standing fast in the sunlight stone Buddha Vasile Moldovan (0,0,7) = 7 pts third world mother – among her prayer beads a tiger’s eye Nancy Smith (0,3,1) = 7 pts sun-warmed stones . . . two dragonflies mate above the current Marie Summers (0,1,5) = 7 pts a dragonfly the trickle of water at the gravel spring John Daleiden (1,1,2) = 7 pts Eleventh Place -- 6 pts Marble headstones I finally found the one with my dad's name Linda Warner (1,1,1) = 6 pts season to season river stones, older than our time together Carol Raisfeld (0,2,2) = 6 pts preschool recess disputed ownership of a smooth rock Carmel Lively Westerman (0,0,6) = 6 pts geology museum-- students race to purchase rock candy aom (tim) (0,0,6) = 6 pts lakeside resort grandpa pays a penny for every agate Edward (0,1,4) = 6 pts mossy rocks -- shadow of the dying maple still green --baldhead (0,1,4) = 6 pts Twelfth Place -- 5 pts black tide smell out amongst the rocks an empty moon paula fisher (0,1,3) = 5 pts bird watching the flight path of a pebble ernest j berry, picton, nz (0,1,3) = 5 pts barefoot laughter a fast jig over river stones Darrell Lindsey (0,1,3) = 5 pts Rising sun warms this old rock ...again Paul Hodder (0,1,3) = 5 pts black ant mistakes a rock for a mountain Paul Hunter (0,1,3) = 5 pts gathering peace by the koi pond watching rocks grow Rose Marie Stutts (0,0,5) = 5 pts Thirteenth Place -- 4 pts steady sound of a backhoe bit blue rock blues shanna 1,0,1) = 4 pts an autumn trip rocky mountain between us and the setting Sun D.V.Rozic (0,2,0) = 4 pts spring rain river and rip-rap one color Bill Kenney (0,1,2) = 4 pts a chameleon on the rocks beside us when we awaken Devika (0,1,2) = 4 pts Fourteenth Place -- 3 pts after rain in the stone’s heart a piece of sky Laura Orabone (0,0,3) = 3 pts heavy spring rain all the river rocks shining Bruce Ross (0,0,3) = 3 pts old rock old monk meditates -spring dusk Amitava Dasgupta (0,0,3) 3 pts collecting rocks - the full moon floats in the sky CaMILA (0,1,1) = 3 pts one last voice from the carved granite -- white lily James M. Thompson (0,1,1) = 3 pts meandering among the Inca stones baby llama and mother Janet Brof (0,0,3) = 3 pts rockslide flecks of mica everywhere the morning sun Mark Hollingsworth (0,0,3) = 3 pts colored stones -- the gold fish swim 'round and 'round Betty Kaplan (0,0,3) = 3 pts road cut -- a pine grows through layered oceans Ann K. Schwader (0,1,1) = 3 pts children hurl stones men in armored tanks lay flat their homes Elaine Mokhtefi (1,0,0) = 3 pts spring phenomena the cultivated field still yields new rocks Elizabeth Fanto (0,1,1) = 3 pts steep trail – our grumbles stop when we see a tree growing out of a rock Zhanna P. Rader (0,0,3) = 3 pts flint chips of old ones a bear breathes inside the rock kokoppelli's flute... Art (0,0,3) = 3 pts shift from hell... wondering if this job is the rock or hard place Hazel (0,1,1) = 3 pts

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