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.

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  • 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.
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Fell

We were laughing,
The sun was shining,
A breeze was playing
With your auburn hair,
Like a cat with
A tangled ball
Of yarn.

You were running,
I was smiling,
Watching
As your voice
Was carried to me,
Half laughing.

I saw you
Look back at me,
Trip
And fall.

Vanish, from my life.

emnoodlehead's picture

Intense ending but I really

Submitted by emnoodlehead on March 31, 2008 - 19:38.

Intense ending but I really like it.

"A breeze was playing
With your auburn hair,
Like a cat with
A tangled ball
Of yarn."
I love those lines.

miss_literal's picture

oh god, mango. I saw

Submitted by miss_literal on March 31, 2008 - 20:32.

oh god, mango.

I saw you
Look back at me,
Trip
And fall.

Vanish, from my life.

Great Job!

Submitted by BenToe14 on April 1, 2008 - 13:56.

This is such a great poem.
I really like the first little paragraph.
The simile is amazing.
I would have never thought of something as clever as that.
I like how this poem is somewhat short yet it tell quite a long story.
At first the person is happy and then all of a sudden the person she loves "vanishes" from her life.
What a great way to put it!
Keep Writing!!
-BenToe

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