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Winning Poems: The Moods of Summer

Randy comes home unbelievably drunk.

Fourth Prize Susan B. Schwartz

On Painting of Ancient China

Noble scholar beneath a willow

And journey of the emperor through a mountain

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In the dusk of summer

The emperor and his microscopic train

His ruinous mystique of gorgeous silk

Of trappings set with ivory

Are lost in the ascending crags

Haunted by blue and grey and ashen yellow

Ocean of clouds.

An old man traverses his fragile bridge of bamboo

Placid above the twisting rapids

Twisting river charged down from the arms of a noble mountain!

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