Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

A Little Less

greenie's picture

The taste of words
is foreign,
yet stale,
unheard of.

The words are
rebelling,
seething,
softly chastising me
for overusing them,
for lessening
their glorious
potential.

And to the words,
I apologize,
I bow to them,
and take my leave.

Perhaps the time
has come,
to do a little more
reading
and a little less
writing,
a little more
listening
and a little less
talking.

Perhaps,
I've found the answer
to the question
I asked when it all began:
why don't you talk
to me anymore?

Perhaps,
it's because I
haven't been listening.

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