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.

Just Warning You

Usagi's picture
Submitted by Usagi on August 2, 2008 - 21:40.

You’ve waited so long,
waited—for me.
But am I worth waiting for?
You’ve witnessed firsthand
my cruelty
and I’ve been cruel before.

My answer to your questions
so nervous new
has given me a power
over you.
And I’ve hurt you in the past.
This won’t be the last.

What we so shyly started
in the theater’s glow
began with conversations
from months ago.
You gotta remember what I’ve done since then.
Do you really want to go through that again?

You’ve waited so long,
waited—for me,
the one who leads you on.
You’ve waited so long
for me to agree
and just as soon I’m gone.
(gone again.)

My answer to your questions
so nervous new
has given me a power
over you.
And I’ve hurt you in the past.
This won’t be the last.
(just warning you.)

NonSequitur's picture

Usagi is back!!!!!! Great

Submitted by NonSequitur on August 2, 2008 - 21:55.

Usagi is back!!!!!!

Great poem, by the way.

:D:D:D:D

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"It's either broken or it's French."

gradster1's picture

Gtalk. Now.

Submitted by gradster1 on August 3, 2008 - 00:41.

Poem? This is a budding song!

A few rests, a good accompaniment... You could be a recording artist. Love it.

/gradster(1)/ - smiling

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

NonSequitur's picture

Subject Line VII

Submitted by NonSequitur on August 3, 2008 - 11:18.

Yes, of course you are worth waiting for.

(I'm probably not the person you wanted to hear this from, but so be it.)

___________________________________
"It's either broken or it's French."

SnowStars's picture

I guess most people realize

Submitted by SnowStars on August 4, 2008 - 10:26.

I guess most people realize that you bring much more good into the world, and into their lives, than evil.
:)SnowStars

Schila's picture

I love this song!

Submitted by Schila on August 7, 2008 - 21:04.

Would you classify this as a balad?
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Credula vitam spes fovet et melius cras fore semper dicit - Credulous hope supports our life, and always says that tomorrow will be better. (Tibullus)

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