Grades 2-5
Winner: Nathan Mamallan (Grade 3, Foster city Elementary School, California)
Winning Poem: "Mystical World"
"...
Wondrous water droplet fall
Cave spiders cackling with misery
You unravel a mystery of life and death…"
Grades 6-8
Winner: Jonathan Li (Grade 7, California)
Winning Poem: "Summer Sunset"
"...
The sky is swirly caramel with vanilla
encased in a dark blue cup.
The ground is like matcha
and there sits a single cherry
atop the dessert.
..."