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.

Want, Need, Can't

Words.
Muck.
Mixed like:
Wet cement,
Heavy and thick,
Like:
Poisoned
Air.
I want to breath,
I need to breath,
But I won't
Allow myself,
Won't fall into
That cycle
And come out again,
A big bird
Under a wire.

miss_literal's picture

Mango, this is

Submitted by miss_literal on June 2, 2008 - 12:41.

Mango,
this is so
beautiful
and sorrowful
and I
love it.

Thank you. *smilz* This is

Submitted by Mango on June 4, 2008 - 19:40.

Thank you. *smilz*
This is basically one of my two pieces about taking a break from writing and then coming back.
It's my explanation of why I was gone from YWP so long.

Poet_Jessica's picture

mustache man strikes again! --> :-{)

Submitted by Poet_Jessica on June 4, 2008 - 19:44.

thank you for coming back! :-{) the mustache man likes your poem almost as much as i do [which is quite difficult considering how much i envy your talent]
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Bella: "what a stupid lamb"
Edward: "what a sick, masochistic lion.."
Quoted from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

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