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

Monday, September 19, 2011

Torre - Anticipation

Patience, anticipation
I sit quietly in my room waiting for the time to come
After so many days keeping us silently apart,
The minutes feel like hours slowly creeping by,
Hours upon hours until I can be wrapped in our warm essence and aroma
 Filled with the sweet taste of love,
I can already feel your arms around me as I make my way down Decatur Street,
Your golden brown skin glistening in the light of the brightly illuminated café;
My heart races with anticipation and zest as I see you enter
With a white powder-like cloth covering yourself,
Oh, dear Café Du Monde,
I thank thee for reuniting me with my beignet 

Torre, age 16
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