Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

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pepper_tree's picture

The one person
I want to talk
To, that hasn't
Quite noticed,
Would just send
Me to the
Guidance counselor.
Well, you know what?
I don't know
Her.
I know you, and
I want you to help
Me, but you aren't
Paid for that.

Wow.

Submitted by Polite Rebel on March 14, 2008 - 11:11.

Simply stated, this poem shows how anger can really mask pain. I like the bitter tone of the last few lines. It's very strong. Since you mentioned "guidance counselor," I'm thinking this relationship exists probably in a high school...so is the person that isn't "paid for that" a teacher? Or is it just a friend? It may not matter or mean this needs a revision, but I was curious.

Good work!

Peter

pepper_tree's picture

Thank You.

Submitted by pepper_tree on March 14, 2008 - 17:48.

Thank you. I'm still in eigth grade, and in a small school, so we only have one guidance counselor, who hardly talks to me. The other person is a teacher who I feel knows me pretty well and cares what I have to say.
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