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English
Language Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Mary Jean Sellers -
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Spider weaves warm nest.
Sunlight peeps through storied glass
Old church keeps our hearts.
2nd Place: David Kopaska-Merkel - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
This book bears your name
Rain spatters on the window
You have marked this page.
3rd Place: Jean Lindquist - Trussville, Alabama
Smiling lrish eyes
Rock me back into childhood
Haven for the heart.
4th Place: Amelia Heath - Northport, Alabama
Shy glances peek out
Two faces smile and heads nod
Spring festival time.
High School Category
1st Place: Adrienne Flannigan - Tuscaloosa,
Alabama
That final good-bye
When I felt him close his eyes
I knew it was time.
2nd Place: Morgan Kopaska-Merkel - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Each time the sun dies
I think of you; but you must
See me in its birth.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Place: Joshua Howell -
Hoover, Alabama
Sitting on my shelf
George, watching me from his bowl
While I read to him.
2nd Place: Kenya Purkhursandi - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Kitten with mother,
Rough tongue at work, lovingly,
Grooming her new-born.
3rd Place: Jake Applebaum - Hoover, Alabama
Thundering outside
I bond with crisp, cool raindrops
Bang! There goes the fuse.
4th Place: Lindsay Doctson - Montgomery, Alabama
Sisters, like snowflakes,
Each different yet the same.
Gentle, precious girls.
Elementary School Category (Grades 1-3) 1st Place: Georg Kuhn - Tuscaloosa, AL Ice cold frozen lakes I dream of angels to come With their pure white cloth. 2nd Place: Sarah Paul - Birmingham, AL She's a teddy bear. She is daffodils in spring. Hugs me when I'm sad. 3rd Place: Sarah Ann Buchman - Tuscaloosa, AL Warm days memories Of love, all is good shy blue Others care for you. 4th Place: Trevor Pruitt - Tuscaloosa, AL Asia, Canada By boat, by swimming, by car Just find some good friends.
Japanese Language
Division
Adult Category
1st Place: Hisako Butler - Athens,
Alabama
Deep morning fog,
I just sent
My grandchildren off.
2nd Place: Daiji Naito - Osaka, Japan
My daughter-in-law learns from my wife
How to make our New Year soup.
A taste of our old home.
3rd Place: Shichiro Kurihara - Narashino, Japan
A winter evening glow,
A group of wild ducks
Bonded to each other.
4th Place: Mitsuko Miyagawa - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
River warms up;
Flower seeds came in the mail
From a friend of mine.
High School Category
1st Place: Rei Yoshioka - Narashino,
Japan
Our breaths are white
To go home with a friend
Warms my heart.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Taku Nemoto - Narashino,
Japan
A snowy night,
Small lights in the distance
I saw with my friend.
2nd Place: Norihiko Miyokawa - Narashino, Japan
Winter sky
I saw in a constellation
My mother's face.
3rd Place: Yuusuke Hatamoto - Narashino, Japan
My friend and I,
Holding each other's shoulder
Walking along the snow covered road.
Elementary School Category
(Grades 1-3)
1st Place: Ayana Osada - Narashino,
Japan
A giant pan of boiling water
I see white shapes of people
On the other side of the pot.
2nd Place: Megumi Orido - Narashino, Japan
My little brother and I
Joined those who carried a portable shrine
In the summer festival.
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