I
The cherry blossoms fade into spring like melting snow upon evergreen
II
The cherry blossoms drift in a sad air faces from the past in slow despair accounted for remembered no longer clear
III
The cherry blossoms dispel no pain only the river passing quietly encounters change
IV
Let me pass the last day beneath the cherry blossoms when the moon is full and the wind is in from the sea


GRAND PRIZE and First Place, fiction grades 7-12

