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Thursday, March 01, 2007

- Poem by Gloria Maciorowski, Grade 7

August arrives

Finally! As she swirls gallantly
Beckoning to all who sit in her path.
She cheers; blanketing sun on petals
Of vibrant flowers.
As September saunters in,
Shaking and churning as the leaves
Tumble
Down

On the last day of every month this year, we will be posting the best student writing that we received in that month. Oops. Today is the first day of March. My bad. Sorry about that. At any rate, we'll post March's Student Writer of the month on March 31st. So get in your entries now! You can either click on "Submit Your Writing" on the right or you can email your poems/stories/essays to word@weeklyreader.com. Each winner will receive a glamorous prize and then, at the end of 2007, we'll have a vote to let YOU decide who was the Student Writer of the Year! Sweet.

We had a lot of great student writing in February. It may seem a little strange to be writing about August this month... but here at WORD, we're open to anything.

Congratulations Gloria! You are February's Student Writer of the Month!!!

Posted by
StudentWriter
on 3/1/2007
12:21 PM

3/1/2007 5:13:54 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Bravo, Gloria! I love your depiction of September, shaking and churning. But shouldn't your poem be called September Arrives? (Note to Bry: shouldn't this poem be the Poem of the Month for... August? or September?)

Deb

3/2/2007 10:12:04 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Deb-

No, it was poem of the month for February because we received it in February.

mm hmm.

Bry

3/3/2007 9:37:15 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

To clear up confusion--
Yes, I did write this poem in February, not expecting to make it on the site at all, let alone Writer of the Month! I wrote this poem because August is my favorite month, and I thought about the warmth of August in our brutally cold month of February.

And to Deb--
There seemed to be a communication error when WORD received my poem. The title of the poem should really be, "August", while I wrote the first line as "August arrives". As you can tell, the poem sounds better when written as:
August arrives,
Finally! As she swirls gallantly
Beckoning to all. . . .

Gloria (The Author)

3/3/2007 11:39:24 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

My bad, Gloria. Sorry about that.

Just fixed it. :) Oh, and your "prize" is in the mail. Enjoy!

Bryon

3/5/2007 9:54:03 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

You're right, Gloria. It is better the way you wrote it. Glad it's all straightened out...

Deb

3/6/2007 8:09:01 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Good job! Congrats! Yay Gloria!

Jenna

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