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

Friday, May 18, 2012

Torre - Heat

To escape the heat in this bizarre New Orleans weather
Is unrealistic in itself
Many wait until the winter season comes
Hoping snow will defeat this heat
Only for all hopes to be dismissed when meeting another day that calls
for flip flops and shorts
Instead of waiting for the non-existent snow to come
True New Orleanians find a different way to escape the heat
With their hats on their heads
Protecting their skin from the vicious sun rays
And snow balls in hand
And a friend on the side
One is truly equipped to take on this relentless heat
Many tourists will agree that a snowball and a hat and a friend cannot
battle the sun
But true New Orleanians always knows
That those three things can defeat anything that comes their way
Including this New Orleans unbearable heat

Torre, age 17
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