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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.)
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."
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Experimental Tree poem

pineapple_babbit's picture

………………………………..........………………………………..........………………………………..........………………
………...........Greenish………………………………..........................
…………......Almost bluish ……………………………….....................
…………..Tree out in my yard………………………………................
…………Too tall for an x-mas tree………………………………...........
……………………………But a good home for little birds………………………………...
…………………………Squirrels like you and your branches………………………………...
………………………Ferns grow around the bottom of your trunk ………………………………
……………………Keeping you roots warm on cold snowy nights………………………………
…………………And keeping you cool on hot, humid summer days…………………………….
……………...You are a little bit misshapen but no body is ever perfect…………………………
………………………………..........This is my……………………………….........................
………………………………..........Ode to you………………………………........................
………………………………..........Large tree ………………………………............................
………………………………..........Outside my ………………………………......................
…………………….Door because you are a tree and I love you ……………………………….

Special's picture

love this

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 20:06.

love this <3
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qwertygirl890123's picture

that's awesome, with how you

Submitted by qwertygirl890123 on July 25, 2008 - 00:37.

that's awesome, with how you made it look like a tree and sound poetic. Great job.
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Thanks. It took a lot of

Submitted by pineapple_babbit on July 25, 2008 - 14:27.

Thanks. It took a lot of work... When it looked good in word, I put it on here, and then it looked nothing like a tree, so I had to rework everything. I had to edit it a bunch of times, but in the end, I am extreamly happy with it. ^_^
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