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.

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greenie's picture

It's back.

---cumpulsivity rising in dark black
tides of confusion
jaded, marbled, smooth, polished tablets
of jealousy---

The systematic accumulation of every
iota of self doubt
forged against the miniscule
particles
of self preservation, confidence, control,
independence

---blood, brick, sun, anger red
rain clinging to every surface
midnight, mysterious, seductive, loathsome
blue walls of liquidity---

A furious wanting need to be different,
better, changed, reborn NOW,
not later, a indiscribable fire of
RAGE against everyone who is better, perfect,
happier, beautiful, praised, acknowledged

---symphonic abuse of low notes drowning
eardrums in clashing, discordant, unsanctioned,
twisted discord---

As it contorts onward expanding into every crevice
of movement and life,
consuming consuming consuming

---unending---.

SnowStars's picture

These are such strong

These are such strong images!
Personally, I delight in mere words as much as concepts, so I loved this.
Jealousy can be immensely all-consuming: and very destructive- you conveyed that very well.
:)SnowStars

imagine's picture

This reminds me of what we

This reminds me of what we were talking about...

May I say that your writing has grown so much. You have a very distinct style- and I love it.

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