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, April 25, 2012

Olivia - Home

I couldn’t name my home for you

I could not label what my “home” is with materialistic descriptions

Or get you to see the world through my eyes

For it has no definition

Emotions are greater than descriptions because we can all relate

So for lack of any words, emotions will be my choice of date

Where strangers become friends through a smile in the market

And neighbors send waves while walking in the park it seems to me

-that who I am has always been here and who I was, wasn’t home

To simplify, I’ll say thank you

And welcome to my humble abode.

Olivia, age 16
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