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English
Language Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Robert DuPree - Tuscaloosa,
Alabama
Three continents shaped
The lines of her smile, this child
Grasping my finger.
2nd Place: R. Marie Stutts - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Cherry blossoms fall
Wind moans under the bridge where
Lovers kiss goodbye.
3rd Place: Mark Yarbrough - Decatur, Alabama
Silence is water
Deep oceans one can not cross
Men are lone islands.
4th Place: Ferris Gilli - Orlando, Florida
A child's sky painting
Left behind on a playground
Ants connect the stars.
Honorable Mention
Jean Lindquist - Trussville, Alabama
Rainbows glide to earth
All dressed up in soft pastels
Bridesmaids to the sun.
High School
Honorable Mention
Ashley Trawick
- Rainbow City, Alabama
At the riverside
A Spanish moss hangs gracefully
A heron cries out.
Laura Flemming - Birmingham, Alabama
Vain star in the night
See his reflection in lakes
Lonely Narcissus.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Sally Tao - Hoover, Alabama
The vast Milkyway
Whirpool of space, stars, planets
Bright in the night sky.
2nd Place: Brandon Pennington - Hoover, Alabama
Ocean, liquid bridge
An immense cup of water
Crash, the waves hit hard.
3rd Place: Andrew Faulkner - Ralph, Alabama
Shame you silent rock
You have not told your secrets
Like a selfish child.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Taylor Cruce - Birmingham,
Alabama
There's a bridge to space
I see Pluto and Venus
Stars like big jewels.
2nd Place: Margaret Raabe
- Birmingham, Alabama
I sit on the bridge
I like to eat on the bridge
I found a frog there.
3rd Place: William Noble - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Spider's web shining
Nature's beauty woven neat
Sparkling in the fog.
4th Place: Anna Scott - Birmingham, Alabama
Bridge from me to you
Light as microscopic hearts
Love, warm as the sun.
Honorable Mention
Sarah Spruell - Birmingham, Alabama
Art, music, dancing
Coming from all foreign lands
A bridge of culture.
Japanese Language
Division
Adult Category/High School
1st Place: Mitsuko Miyagawa -
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A dim moon
A letter talking about flowers in bloom
From a friend whom I've never seen.
2nd Place: Miyako Hayamizu - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A New Year's visit to the shrine
Crossing an arched bridge
In high spirits.
3rd Place: Daiji Naito - Osaka, Japan
A bridge leading to the
Space ship
Autumnal sky.
High School Category
Honorable Mention
Rieko Taguchi - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A house of straw
Smile of my grandma
And Ogawa Bridge.
Hiroyuki Okamatsu - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
On the bridge
I stopped and found
A view of the cherry blossoms.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
Honorable Mention
Aya Nakajima - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Stars are shooting
A bridge of stars
Invisible to us on the Earth.
Tomoo Hirose - Narashino, Japan
Cherry trees
Strengthen
Our invisible bond.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
Honorable Mention
Natsumi Tsuboya - Narashino, Japan
Cherry trees
Please take a good care of them
They are for all of us.
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