Tanka by Yumi Harada

(Yumi Harada is a student at Hida Kamioka High School, Hida City, Japan)

Beautiful flowers

I stand by and watch them bloom

They have their own will

I can see them still changing

surrounded my all nature

When you left I said

it's "sayonara" for now

'Cause I knew the time

when we'd meet again would come

you returned and now I smile

I see the clear sky

The sky gives me a feeling

It's like club soda

My youth bubbling away

My school days will not return

The blue summer sky

From another point of view

I still want to see

The sky from a new angle

while walking in summer's day