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

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Leira - Atmosphere 


In this air we breathe
There are gases
Not one
But many
Many gases
Not only in this air
But beneath our feet
And among the stars
And within our bones
And within everything
Scattered across this Universe
They make up all things
Living and Dead
All gases and elements
In the present
As seen in Humans
Carbon-based things
From gasseous stars now dead
Scattered by a Super-Nova
And now these gases
Dispersed by exploding suns
They make up our life
The stars
The planets
This planet called Earth
This ground we walk upon
These bones that support us
This air we breathe
This atmosphere

Leira, age 17
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