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.

Alley Cat

Submitted by Teera Paye on October 2, 2007 - 13:16.

I release my feline side.
I want to go for the ride.
What do I have to do for love?
Is hope really a white dove?
I take my whip and punish the bad.
It doesn’t make me sad.
The deserve what punishments they get.
It is the best and worst bet.
They try to get their way.
I wont let them stay.
They need to go away.
They do not understand my powers.
They will shower in my power.

You did a great job here

Submitted by smcmentor on March 31, 2008 - 19:05.

You did a great job here with displaying the powers in the poem. Great job with the rhyming as well!

I think for next time, maybe try to make sure you stay within a certain form. Maybe break the poem up into stanzas or keep it AA,BB,CC...ext. I noticed you went AA,BB,CC,DD,EEE,FF. Also, try some imagery. I think it would add a great feeling to the poem. Things like... "My eyes see the moon;/ It spells impending doom" or something. I'm not as good as you though!

Keep up the awesome work!

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