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.

Week 22: The leading key -- Maureen Spicer

Submitted by MaureenSpicer on August 22, 2007 - 13:10.

By Maureen Spicer
Dummerston Elementary School, Grade 8

there is this key
this key is
special to me
it leads you to
unmarked land
no one knows it
but it is there
if you want it
it looks like this
old-fashioned
looks as if
it could fly!
Chase it and
find where
it leads you
it leads you
to a great
friendship
with
me.

Really good

Submitted by hannah_is_a_goddess on November 2, 2007 - 12:58.

I thought that your poem was really good. It had a lot of depth. Not only did it describe the key it also described how you felt. It also told a little story which I liked. The story was mysterious and made you want to know where the key led, and at the end it told where it led.

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