Welcome to New Voices: Your Poetry and Short Fiction

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Updated 11/9/2009

The Talkabout for November is...

"What do you worry about?"

So, with all the bad things in the world today, it's sometimes hard to feel like there's just one thing to worry about! But what worries you the most? What keeps you up at night wondering if it's going to happen? Let's talk about it!

suggested by

AGW Staff

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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I'm Suffocating

I am suffocating
And I just need to breathe
I'm smothered under pressure
I must be relieved.

Nothing I do is right,
Nothing they say is fair
I cry and scream and throw a fit,
But no one seems to care.

Nobody will listen
To what I have to say.
My life is not important,
Yet I'm living everyday.

I can't do what I want
I cannot stay out late
Here I sit and write this poem
To release my pain and hate.

I'm confused and I'm alone
I'm lost inside my mind.
No one will search beyond my looks
To see what they might find.

So many thoughts confuse me,
Feelings I can't perceive,
In this time of adolescence
And I just need to leave.

None of it makes sense
None of it seems real.
And no one understands
The emotions that I feel.

I'm still suffocating
And I still need to breathe.
I'm smothered under feelings
Let me be relieved.

- Virginia, 12, USA

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My Very Own Angel

An angel was sent to watch over me,
Keeping me safe all the time
My angel does things I cannot see
I'm glad to know an angel is mine

When troubles come down my way
And there is no where else to go
I will look to my angel and sit down to pray
My angel is listening, I know

They can't do everything for you
Courage is what they will give
They have the power to see through you
And give you heart to live

My very own angel was sent to me
At the moment of my birth
To help me be what I can be
And it came from heaven to earth

When the day will come
When I see their shining light
I will thank it for all the help it has given
Even in the darkness of the night

When I have to make a choice
And I don’t know where to start
I listen to my angel's voice
Deep inside my heart

I imagine my angel as a beautiful sight
From heaven they must be
With glowing wings and shimmering light
I cannot wait for the day I will see

My angel is with me
As I will always say
To help and love and guide me
Every single day

- Caroline, 12, Ohio

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Old Mr. Nelson Robert McGee

Old Mr. Nelson Robert McGee,
Knocked me down onto my knee.
He yelled, Scram! Get out! Be gone!
Anything just get off my lawn!

I ran and ran as fast as I could,
To the other side of the neighborhood.
I told all my friends what the old man had done
And they all just laughed and made fun.
I said, come on, come on and see!
Come see Mr. Nelson Robert McGee!

So we went to his yard and they said, He's not coming!
I said, just wait, then you'll be running.
Then sure enough, out he came!
Looking evil, just the same.

He yelled, Scram! Get out! Be gone!
Anything, just get off my lawn!

- Katie, 13, Ohio