by Anya Ambarish, Age 10, USA
This piece was submitted for one of our weekly writing challenges.
How I Know I Am a Writer
An energy surges through me,
A lightning bolt of words,
Touching everything from the top of my head
To the tip of my toes.
I scramble to put them on paper,
All the thoughts in my head,
Because I know that, like a wave crashing,
They will soon be back in the sea of unknown.
This feeling I get when composing
Is what makes me a writer,
Because a true writer doesn’t want to write,
She needs to.
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Anya Ambarish lives in Virginia and is in the fifth grade. She is passionate about poetry, writing, reading, tennis, basketball and ping-pong.
That was a beautiful poem. Very true.