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.

Falling Back, Moving Forward

People tell me
The world is
My
Playground.
People ask me
How I do
What I do;
Find things
Find places
To go.
How nothing
Stands in my way.

What they don't see
Is the wall
On my toes,
Building taller
Every second,
Bruising my skin,
Spinning my stomach.

My eyes see
Only footprints
Ahead,
Footprints
Of my very own
Feet.
I've been everywhere
I go
And I fall
back
As I move forward.

hey what's your name...you

Submitted by horsegrl291 on June 2, 2008 - 12:32.

hey what's your name...you look like someone familiar

hey what's your name...you

Submitted by horsegrl291 on June 2, 2008 - 12:32.

hey what's your name...you look like someone familiar

well..

Submitted by Mango on June 2, 2008 - 13:08.

who do you think I am?

miss_literal's picture

She isMANGO.And

Submitted by miss_literal on June 2, 2008 - 12:43.

She is
.
.
.
M
A
N
G
O
.
And that's
all there is to it.

(this is my second poem

Submitted by Mango on June 4, 2008 - 19:41.

(this is my second poem about coming back to YWP after a break.) *smilz*

miss_literal's picture

welcome back : )

Submitted by miss_literal on June 4, 2008 - 19:47.

welcome back
: )

why thank you!

Submitted by Mango on June 4, 2008 - 19:49.

why thank you!

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