How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Friday, September 16, 2011

Leira - Anticipation

Feelings of Fall in New Orleans


What is this?
This feeling
Is it excitement?
Yes
No
Not exactlty
What is it?

The weather
Still so warm
Yet some days cool
Windy
My favorite
New Orleans is hot forever
Except in Winter
But then there is Fall
Neither fully cool
Nor fully warm
My favorite time
The season of red yellow leaves
Except our trees never change
No pretty colors
But still
Autumn in New Orleans
It is still beautiful
Maybe it isn’t the weather
It is something else
A feeling

What is this?
This feeling
Is it excitement?
No
It is Anticipation
For the leaves to never change
For Fall to come
And for the feelings that follow

Leira, age 16
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