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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, April 5, 2011

Torre - As the streetcar perisistently creaks...

As the street car persistently creaks

I look out in the heat

At all of the oak and magnolia trees

As the Victorian houses pass by

I close my eyes as I feel the easy ride

Down narrow streets of St. Charles

A story is created

Where you can envision the souls of yesterday

Living in music and food

That rises from the bumps and cracks on the streets

The souls of yesterday

Spinning their umbrellas

While they sing and dance from Uptown to Mid City

Next to the streetcars rumbling around the ''neutral ground''

Nothing can overturn the spirits

Of our ancestors

Time nor disaster could diminish this story

When yesterday hangs on to forever

As the street car persistently creaks

Torre, age 16
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