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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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Do Not Mind the Soldiers of the Night

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Submitted by Usagi on October 29, 2008 - 11:17.

Do not mind the soldiers of the night.
You cannot hear their taps upon your door.
Watch instead their brides in lacy white,
drifting till they land and drift no more.

You cannot hear their taps upon your door;
tiny feath'ry bodies make no sound.
Drifting till they land and drift no more,
icy soldiers blanket the wet ground.

Tiny feath'ry bodies make no sound.
You cannot hear what you choose to ignore.
Icy soldiers blanket the wet ground,
mourning young men fallen in the war.

You cannot hear what you choose to ignore.
Watch instead their brides in lacy white,
mourning young men fallen in the war.
Do not mind the soldiers of the night.

winter

Submitted by adam1 on October 29, 2008 - 13:00.

this is a really nice story. It is a sad poem but has a lot of meaning.

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