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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.)
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I Wanna Soar

Submitted by lasporty1612 on March 20, 2008 - 19:23.

I Wanna Soar

By Elizabeth Armstrong
Browns River Middle School, Grade 8

I wanna soar, see the sights of this world
I wanna fly, into the light blue sky
I wanna love all there is to love
I wanna appreciate those things that took some time

I know there’s lots more out there
Farther than I’ve been
Things of great beauty
No one's ever seen
Sittin’ there just waitin’
For some unsuspecting eye
To notice it as they walk by

I wanna soar, see the sights of this world
I wanna fly, into the light blue sky
I wanna love all there is to love
I wanna appreciate those things that took some time

They say there's a one and only
For everyone aroun’
Well I’m still lookin’
Through every little town
Searchin’ for my promised love
The one who will hold me dear
But until then I'll be travelin’
All around here

I wanna soar, see the sights of this world
I wanna fly, into the light blue sky
I wanna love all there is to love
I wanna appreciate those things that took some time

There's lots of artists
On the street
They put in so much time
And barely have a thing to eat
I’ll be the one to stop and look
Maybe spend a bit of coin
As long as they have something
To put on the grill and cook

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