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

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Taylor - Down in New Orleans...

Down in New Orleans
Good smells rise
and lift across the skies
as we sink below sea level
six feet above where the devil lies
Down in New Orleans
We celebrate
where you’re welcome to eat, drink and pray
in the jambalaya jumble before Fat Tuesday
when the marching bands rumble
and the flambeaux men sway
and ancient oaks lean in toast to hurricanes now gone away
where friendly smiles are shared
and rain stains glass
Down in New Orleans
At a Super Sunday Second Line
you can buckjump out of your mind
party till the sun shines and
pass a real good time
down in New Orleans
embrace yourself
into the taste of this town and
Lose yourself until your soul is found
Down in New Orleans

Taylor, age 16
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