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Writer On The Rise
Vanessa is sweet 16. Not only does this logical, analytical high school student strive to achieve academic excellence but she immerses herself in various forms of artistic expression. She is involved in dance, singing, musical theatre, playing the guitar, and drawing.  In 2004, she was introduced as one of Rancho Santa Margarita Holiday Banner Contest winners and her artwork was chosen to be displayed on the light poles throughout the community of Rancho Santa Margarita. Vanessa’s favorite activities include writing poems, creating nonsensical science fiction stories, and pretending to be various characters on the internet. When she is not writing, she enjoys thinking up crazy ideas of what to write.

 

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Cat's View

Flit and scuttle in the grass

Look too slow and move too fast

Swirl and whirl in the air

Crouch, pounce, and you’re not there

Orange and black, orange and black

Flutter, zip, and twirl, and bat

Every movement my eyes trace

Mouth opens towards your face

There’s one loud snap

There’s another clap

Of aiming jaws

And outstretched claws

And yet you’re still free from my paws














Gingerbread House

For Christmas they constructed a gingerbread house. 

Not a little house that you break apart with your hands 
and chomp on as you sit in front of the fireplace

The sort of house that you saunter into and sit by the icing-laced 

fireplace they keep roaring inside


I walked up to it, white with frosting and dusted in sparkling 

sugar with whimsicle designs decorating the door


I fumbled with the frosting door and its fluffy marshmallow 

over peanut brittle knob to find the infernal thing locked

And suddenly the early Christmas present they presented t

o me and specifically instructed that I not taste suddenly made some sense

Out of my pocket I picked a carefully carved candy cane 

who’s peculiarly carved tip twinkled in the Christmas lights

The cane came in contact with a chocolate keyhole 

and the sugar white door and its sweet handle swung open with ease

To say the inside made outside look simple would simply be an understatement
Tiles of gingerbread and tastefully colored taffy created a checked floor

It was a game to get where you wanted to go without getting gummed up 

and glued down by stupidly stepping on a taffy tile

Who’s idea where the taffy tiles anyway? 

The taffy tiles and toffee tables and tinsel lined window. 
Well, the windows were nice but whatever else seemed stuck 
in taffy and toffee and too much cinnamon

Cinnamon everywhere. Cinnamon on the cookies 

on the toffee table. Cinnamon sprinkled
 on the perfectly prettified pine tree picked out by much too perky crafters

Sugar and snow, and sugar cookies decorated 

the fartherest wall sitting sparkle in the corner. 
Ornaments settled in shining white snow and sugar cookies 
sparkling with several tiny granules

And red. Everywhere red. Every rueful corner riddled with red. 

Red candies, and bulbs, and Christmas lights, and red sugar, 
and red-nosed reindeer, and ridiculous red santa hats

The couch is crafted of marshmallow and covered in red tinsel. 

How in heck do they get comfortable on that thing?

And two busy-body builders, this candy house’s crafters cuddle 

in the corner with their scalding hot chocolate laughing and blushing 
red with the heat from a fancy cookie fueled fire





Fairy Doll

Poor broken fairy doll

Sitting slumped against the wall

Missing left arm and right eye

Left one color of the sky

Shining sheer wings ripped right off

Somewhere far off they’ve been tossed

A sparkling skirt nearly ripped to shreds

And the sparkle in a left-behind eye dead

Poor broken fairy doll

Sitting slumped against the wall

I look at you and hope and pray

That you’ll be put back together some day

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  • WRITER ON THE RISE
    • WRITER ON THE RISE- Conrad
    • WRITER ON THE RISE- Maryam
    • Writer On The Rise-August
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    • Writer On The Rise- June
    • WRITER ON THE RISE-MAY
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    • WRITER ON THE RISE-JANUARY 2013
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