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.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

For February.

misilover's picture

I will not
eat any more pop tarts
or drink soda.
I will drink more tea.
I will not
love unnecessarily
or become any weirder than I already am.
I will be more calm and mabey more superficial.
I will not
sleep more than I have to
or become louder when you are quieter.
I will be a productive human being. I promise.
However,
I will not
stop loving you
or stop calling you every night.
I will stay here always.
I will not cry on Valentine's Day.

I will be a stronger person this month.

well done

Submitted by Polite Rebel on February 4, 2008 - 10:48.

hi misilover--

Great work here. I can really sense the speaker's desperation in the line: "I will be a more productive human being. I promise." It seems like someone has criticized the speaker.

The repetition works well, too--I will not, I will not, I will...It reminded me of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," which makes great use of repetitive sentence structure.

I don't understand why "superficial" is on the speaker's list of things to become. Is that what the "you" addressed in the poem wants of the speaker?

Good work,

Peter

awsmpossum's picture

I love this.

Submitted by awsmpossum on February 4, 2008 - 15:42.

I love this.

miss_literal's picture

ditto

Submitted by miss_literal on February 4, 2008 - 16:14.

ditto

misilover's picture

polite rebel: Because no one

Submitted by misilover on February 4, 2008 - 16:36.

polite rebel:
Because no one likes the speaker as she is:
too blunt
too real
too herself.

thanks you guys!!

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