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.

Melophobia

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on May 13, 2008 - 21:50.

I hate the way
my fingers aren't
stiff and the
cello is beautiful and
I know the piece by
heart but my bow is
heavy and scratchy
like a brick and
I'm playing with all
the wrong rhythms and
backwards beats and
I hate the way
eleven months is getting
me nowhere and that
no one can understand
why this is
not
so
simple
and I hate that this
is such a defining
(confining)
poem.

Anonymous's picture

Sorry. Just needed to vent a

Submitted by Anonymous on May 13, 2008 - 21:51.

Sorry.
Just needed to vent a little.
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