Welcome to New Voices: Your Poetry and Short Fiction

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Updated 5/8/2008

The Talkabout for May is...

Do you think girls can have boyfriends at a young age?

suggested by Lilja, 9, Maine

We get letters from girls of every age talking about "their boyfriend". What do you think is the right age for that kind of stuff to start?

Talkabout it HERE!

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The Talkabout for February was...

"If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could only bring 3 people with you who would they be?"

suggested by Holly, 9 USA

Let's see what they said!

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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 TALKABOUT 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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Bookpicks for Writers!

pOEMS and sToRIES!

Written by: Girls like You!

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Metaphorically Speaking

Do you hear the melody?
I guess it’s just in me.
I try to dance,
I try to sing,
But nothing comes to be.
I feel like it’s a song,
Trailing in me but half way gone.
I have to fine the other verse,
and I think the chorus is missing.
I have to find that song,
'cause its a part of me.
I don’t know were to look,
I don’t know where it could be,
But of course I’m just,
Metaphorically speaking.

- Grace, 12, Italy.

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The Real Me

Behind my smokescreen pretence
Lay a girl hiding behind her lens
The split personality that I had used
Causes me to constantly muse

The real me is hiding in the shadows
While the other one is running through the meadows
The extrovert who I am
Is the one that is making all my friends

While my dear old self is cooped up inside
I’m sure all of you have long since realised
I’m not the person that I seem to be
You’ll have to know me well before you can see

- Amanda, 12, Singapore

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Love Happens

Life is not a fairy tale
Sometimes you win
Sometimes you fail

Life is not an easy ride
It's often rough
And there's no guide

Life is not a game
There's hate and pain
And people blame

Life is not set like a clock
Things move back and forth
Both ways you'll walk

Life is not a perfect thing
We make mistakes
And some will sting

Life happens every day
But so does love

- Leigh, 13, USA