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

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Olivia - Atmosphere


You know it’s so liberating to be in a new atmosphere?
To finally not be ridiculed indirectly
But genuinely be approached correctly
This new atmosphere and I are in unison, with each other
Like the wheels on the bus
We go round and round and round and round
Through the valleys and the grounds
Of the cities and the towns
This atmosphere and I are one
This one gives me security
This one is a home
This atmosphere makes me happy
The old one made me groan
Forced to change into an environment
Ignorance thought it would know
But my friend ignorance was afraid
She was afraid of the unknown
But not the actual atmosphere its green eyes saw
This atmosphere and I are in unison

Olivia, age 16

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