Haiku Poetry Awards Youth Winner - Chelsea Zhu

Chelsea Zhu is a writer from Maryland, who loves swimming, skiing, and figure skating. She writes haikus to explore their evocative nature of language, imagery, and emotion. "April Haiku" is a study of poetry rooted in time and space, the way human memory translates into movement and music of nature - remembrance of lost connection, lasting as brief as haiku.

April Haiku By Chelsea Zhu

after spring rainstorm

floating blossoms- waterfall

the sound of longing