Welcome to New Voices: Your Poetry and Short Fiction

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Updated 3/12/2010

The Talkabout for March is...

"What can you do when you like a guy and dont know how to ask him out?"

- suggested by Megan, 13, Texas

Boys. We have to figure out how to live with them, and that includes how to date them. Modern women are supposed to get out there and do the asking, right? So just HOW do you do that, anyway? Any bright ideas?

Talk about it HERE!

Let's see what they said last month!

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Send your poems and stories to

agwriter2000@yahoo.com

IMPORTANT!!! a lot of girls don't sign their work so we can't use it or credit them!! Send your TALKABOUT to the email address below and DON'T FORGET to sign your submission at the bottom with first name, age, state or county and (if you have one with us) penpal number! SEND YOUR STORIES AND POETRY SUBMISSIONS TO:

agwriter2000@yahoo.com

CLICK HERE TO READ YOUR SUBMISSIONS FOR LAST MONTH'S TALKABOUT

WRITERS! Here's another chance to put your feelings on paper/computer screen. We'll give you a subject and you sound off about it. We'll publish as many responses as we can right here!

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Book picks for Writers!

pOEMS and sToRIES!

Written by: Girls like You!

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Sometimes

Sometimes
I look up at the sky
And wonder why
I can’t fly
Away from you
And these things you do

Sometimes
I look down at my feet
And wish I could retreat
Just back away
From your painful ways

And sometimes
I look straight at you
And wonder why you do the things you do
But I know I could never walk away from this
And I could never push away your kiss

Sometimes, I can’t stand your attitude
Sometimes, I hate what you do
Sometimes, you’re so rude
But all the time, I love you

- Morgan, 15, New York

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The Love-Hate Relationship

Hate

I hate it when you say those things
I hate your stupid promise ring
I HATE it when you touch my hair
And I hate that you’re never there

Love

I love the way I love you too
Or at least the way I think I do
I love the way I tingle when you talk
And that obnoxious way you walk

Why am I letting you get to me?
Maybe because I kind of like it
Hate, Love, Love, Hate

Don’t make me wait
It’s fate

- Morgan, 15, New York

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Unsure

I wish I could be anywhere
But where I am right now
Head on my lap
Breath shaking with sound
Stuck between hope and sorrow
Undecidedly profound

You left me baffled
But with promise for more
Now I’m sitting waiting
Mistakenly unsure

- Morgan, 15, New York