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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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Ashes of a Tower

Submitted by courtney.austin on May 16, 2008 - 09:42.

A plundering of ashes, spread across the ground,
Coming from the sky, like snowflakes from a cloud.
Children looking up in disbelief and aww,
as the towers that stood there, are no where to be found.

The bodies around all shielded beneath the piles
The terrorists that came against us, they laugh
as we watch and pray in all the sorrow.

As the years pass and pass, people move on from the disaster,
I can not stand to know, that maybe theres no happily ever after.
I pray for those who lost loved ones, and the ones who lost there lives
I hope God can save us from what we've been deprived.

Wow. Now that i've read the

Submitted by mlazarovich on May 25, 2008 - 18:10.

Wow. Now that i've read the entire poem, this is pretty intesnse and emotional content. i really liked the 'snowflakes from a cloud' part.

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