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English
Language Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Jean Lindquist - Trussville, Alabama
Wild tiger lilies
Prowl around the countryside
Free from garden walls.
2nd Place: Ann P. Park - Aliceville, Alabama
Eagle drifiting high
Widespread wings seeking currents
Of air to swim in.
3rd Place: Rebecca Dosch - Chiba, Japan
Cold hands stuck inside
My pockets -- a truck selling
Baked sweet potatoes.
4th Place: Richard Fuller - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tugging at my hand,
The kite envies the swallow
Its untethered flight.
Honorable Mention
Jeanne Lowe - Mobile, Alabama
Wind-driven clouds from
Castles in stormy spring skies
Frogs play in puddles.
Junior High and High School
Category
1st Place: Shaun Peterson - Birmingham,
Alabama
Like snow on water
Swans are silent and peaceful
Upon the stillness.
2nd Place: Kevin Bevis - Birmingham, Alabama
Winter has left us,
The sharp grass chews through the snow
Peeking -- eyes of green.
3rd Place: Jay Potts - Homewood, Alabama
Sun and heat beat down
The Spanish Moss hanging low
Southern pride is full.
4th Place: John Scelsi - Hueytown, Alabama
The wind breezes by,
Somebody cries out to it;
It does not listen.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Agitha Jackson - Tuscaloosa,
Alabama
The falling snowflakes
Cling to me like butterflies
Tiny, white, and wet.
2nd Place: Maegan Schellhammer - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
No longer grounded
Blazing on my bicycle
As free as the wind!!
3rd Place: Emily Brown - Sylacauga, Alabama
Bright, autumn colors
Falling through the crisp, cool air
A quilt on bare ground.
4th Place: Janet Payne - Birmingham, Alabama
Frog on lilypad
Croaking loudly through the night
Keeping me awake!
Honorable Mention
Kathryn Johnson - Hoover, Alabama
A mystic forest
Crystal clear sparkling streams glow
Jumping silver fish!
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Jason May - Brookwood,
Alabama
Grass makes waves of silk
Blowing in the wind so cool
Breezy tall wheat strips.
2nd Place: Ashley Cowley - Alabaster, Alabama
Snowflakes fall softly,
Dancing by the bright moon and,
Fall on tired tree.
3rd Place: Shasta Hinklin - Brookwood, Alabama
Reading a good book
Flipping, flapping in the breeze
The pages plip-flop.
4th Place: William Bradford - Alabaster, Alabama
Rainbow over me
Let the rain know when to stop
So I can go play.
Japanese Language
Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Yoshie Wakamiya - Narashino
City, Japan
The reflection of a sunset
Glows on the last full bloom
Of an old cherry tree.
2nd Place: Mitsuko Miyagawa - Tuscaloosa, Japan
Young bamboos bend
All together when hit
By the first summer shower.
3rd Place: Momoyo Katsu - Hiroshima, Japan
An evening day
Is embraced by
the trees,
Lined up like the teeth of a comb.
4th Place: David Naito - Decatur, Alabama
I flew on top of a dandelion
And landed on the moon's surface
In my dream.
High School Category
1st Place: Mio Nomura - Narashino City,
Japan
On a crystal clear stream,
Dancing cherry blossoms land.
Honorable Mention
Sunao Kitahara - Narashino City, Japan
I noticed a song
Whistled
By the wind.
Yuri Otsuna - Narashino City, Japan
A roaring storm
Makes the cherry blossoms
Scatter around.
Noriko Kawashima - Narashino City, Japan
Rape flowers
Warm me up
With their color and shape.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-6)
1st Place: Azusa Morino - Narashino
City, Japan
In the rainy season,
Umbrellas sing
With drops of rain.
2nd Place: Atsushi Mishima - Narashino City, Japan
When snow melts away,
The village is full
Of children running outside.
3rd Place: Namiko Kamura - Narashino City, Japan
A sunrise on New Year's Day;
It was freezing
But I had to make a wish.
4th Place: Ikuya Takashi - Narashino City, Japan
Hydrangea blooms
In the rainy season;
Water drips from its flowers.
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