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, May 24, 2012

Brooke - Heat


Ninety eight degrees on the south shore
Says our infamous Margaret Ore
She’s On Our Side trying to hide
From the sunbeam’s scathing stride
When the air thick with perspiration
From the humidity is in preparation
For bouncing around the heat in its atoms
Magnifying the swelter, the beat of our heart drums
It’s too hot to eat. too hot to sleep. too hot to fear
The hurricane season is near. Why do we even live here?
To get out of the heat you gotta get out of the kitchen
Oh don’t be coy. I’ll just sweat and go down kickin.
New Orleans is just closer to the sun
You can only enjoy it when the day is done. 

Brooke, age 17
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