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English
Language Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Olene Barron - Troy, Alabama
Sounds of cooing doves
Soft as a lover's first kiss.
Spring storm is brewing!
2nd Place: Gary Warner - Hoover, Alabama
Floating soap bubble
Rising without direction
Above giggling hands.
3rd Place: Regina Garson - Huntsville, Alabama
Daffodil young green
Until strength bright surrender
To birch peel demise.
4th Place: Rebecca Dosch - Chiba, Japan
Sheepishly poking
Its red face through a wire fence --
Unpicked tomato.
Honorable Mention
Leon and Marcy Weinberger - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The startled buck leaps
As human scents waft on wind,
He hides among leaves.
Junior High and High School
Category
1st Place: Rebecca Findley - McCalla,
Alabama
Standing in a field,
A tree solemnly awaits,
The knock of an ax.
2nd Place: Shannon Robertson - Huntsville, Alabama
Youth; wasted, lost, gone
A bird vanishing from sight
As time passes on.
3rd Place: Tameka Sandlin - Brookwood, Alabama
Many white speckles,
Fluttering in the gray sky,
Blankets the roof top.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Lindsey Miller -
Greensboro, Alabama
The young bluebird chirps
It trys to fly but falls down
Worms will be his lunch.
2nd Place: Mike Bishop - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The big river flows
Like a huge shivering snake
Winding to the sea.
3rd Place: Lashonda Sledge - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The moon shines brightly
So you can see through the night
That things are all right.
4th Place: Lindsay Mills - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Sunset colors bright...
Walk on the beach, happy times,
The wind blows softly.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Julia Apodaca -
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
I can't tie this shoe,
In this little house right now,
Mother comes to help.
2nd Place: Taylor Shepherd - Birmingham, Alabama
Backyard after school
A lizard crawled up the wall
The dog ran to it.
3rd Place: Jessica Green - Brookwood, Alabama
Rumbling and grumbling,
Loud crashing fireworks at night.
The lightning scares me.
4th Place: Brad Acton - Birmingham, Alabama
A child chased a frog
Around his house's front yard
At two o'clock sharp.
Honorable Mention
Amy Boyd - Hoover, Alabama
Baby bird in spring
Plays in the flowers and trees.
What about winter?
Chance Jones - Sylacauga, Alabama
Brightly, shining sun
Shines right into my blue eyes
Yellow ball of fire.
Japanese Language
Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Etsuko Latham - Huntsville,
Alabama
My husband passed away.
Still (this year again), young buds
Start to grow.
2nd Place: Kunio Aoki - Narashino City, Japan
Hesitation disappears;
Carriers of the portable shrine
Step as one.
3rd Place: Harunobu Suwa - Narashino City, Japan
Memories of past days
Suddenly come to me --
Scent of the (spring) wind.
4th Place: Kunichi Hashimoto - Narashino City, Japan
Although it is old,
This cherry tree
Still blooms.
High School Category
1st Place: Shiro Sekine - Narashino
City, Japan
In the snow
Only hands of the two of us
Remain warm.
2nd Place: Masaya Ida - Narashino City, Japan
A snowy day!
"It should snow
more and more,"
I say to myself.
Elementary School Category
1st Place: Akiko Kobayashi - Narashino
City, Japan
A beetle,
In the summer morning sun,
Is shining.
2nd Place: Akinobu Okamoto - Narashino City, Japan
Happy in the days
Of a rainy season are
Hydrangea and snails.
3rd Place: Tomoaki Ito - Narashino City, Japan
In a chilly wind,
A long-distance race --
Runners' white breath.
4th Place: Fumiko Baba - Narashino City, Japan
Children dressed --
New school uniforms --
In the spring wind.
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