Tu Jiequn, a Year 4 student of the Division International Studies, won the 2nd prize in a poetry competition organised by the City of Echizen in the Prefecture of Fukui in Japan. The theme was love and belonging and Tu Jiequn submitted this tanka (a tanka is a short poem following the pattern of 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic lines):
Sakura by Keith Mallett
虹と言えば
君への架け橋
風と言えば
愛の言葉を
ささやいている
Speaking of rainbows
Is a bridge to you
Speaking of the wind
Is like telling you
Tender whispers of nothing