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English
Language Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Rebecca Dosch - Kyoto, Japan
Grandma's quilt has one
Square -- fire-red silk -- how many
Dances did she dance?
2nd Place: Robert DuPree - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Faint tinkling, whistles...
Bare hackberry limbs, clear sky --
And cedar waxwings.
3rd Place: Rose Marie Stutts - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Sweetpeas on the fence
Butterflies sipping nectar
Fleeting sky-flowers.
4th Place: Mary Carney - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Sky full of pink clouds
Blond, baby girl born this day
Tornadoes, that night.
5th Place: Janet Bolla - Vestavia Hills, Alabama
Fine silk threads trapping,
Shimmering in the moonlight,
Iridescent bug.
High School Category
1st Place: Robert Smith - Tuscaloosa,
Alabama
Brash Orleans music
Move as mercurial dreams
And scream silver songs.
2nd Place: John Geislinger - Birmingham, Alabama
Fog blankets the earth,
With a mild touch to your face,
Blurs reality.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Jacob Hayes - Birmingham,
Alabama
The sun peeps its head
As dew hugs the morning grass,
The lone jay breaks dawn.
2nd Place: Katie McGriff - Hoover, Alabama
Undisturbed mantis
Playing calmy on a leaf
Snap! There goes the fly.
3rd Place: Emily Bragg - Hoover, Alabama
Morning glories bloom
On a golden sunrise fence
Like sounding trumpets.
4th Place: Diana Buss - Montogomery, Alabama
Sun shining so bright
Blue sky not a cloud in sight
Warm grass between toes.
5th Place: Jason Morris - Cottondale, Alabama
Slowly creeping up
The cat tries to paw its prey.
The grasshopper hops.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Lisa Kuhne -Tuscaloosa,
Alabama
Can you see the fog?
Like girls dancing through the air
Soft, cool, wet blanket.
2nd Place: Katie Leigh - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Horses -- flowing mane
Gallops sound of beating drums
When she runs through fields.
3rd Place: Emma-Payne Curlin - Montgomery, Alabama
People chattering
Squawks from the seagulls above
Soon to go away.
4th Place: Mikey Kane - Montgomery, Alabama
Wet, salty blue world
Full of creatures and seaweed
With towering waves.
Japanese Language
Division
Adult Category
1st Place: David Naito - Orangeburg,
New York
Gee ...too short a song,
Autumn cicadas.
2nd Place: Yuko Koike - Narashino City, Japan
I happened to look out:
The moon and a cherry tree
Waltz together.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Makiko Kato - Narashino
City, Japan
A female lightning bug
Shines as if to compete
With night stars.
2nd Place: Kazuya Fujiwara - Narashino City, Japan
In the Northern sky.
Swiftly a shooting star
Dropped.
3rd Place: Mizuho Kikuchi - Narashino City, Japan
Cherry flowers fell.
My friend and I were absorbed in
Collecting the petals from the ground.
4th Place: Mayumi Ishii - Narashino City, Japan
The sound of the year ending temple bells
I hear as if
I were striking the bell.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Takaaki Masuda - Narashino
City, Japan
Blow of north wind,
It took away from me
That precious letter.
2nd Place: Ayano Kawai - Narashino City, Japan
Spring wind,
So gently caresses my ears.
3rd Place: Tomoko Takatsu - Narashino City, Japan
A cold night,
The sky looks
Just like a
planetarium.
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