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Ashley dufresne

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One more

You’re trying to be cool
You take one more…
You know you should be through
You take one more….
Even after everything that has been told to you
You take one more….
Not wanting to call for a ride
You feel it will take away your pride
You take one drive…
Your judgment is too much infected
By the substances that you injected
You should not of taken
That last one…
As you take one drive
With One friend by your side
You think you seem fine
Though your reactions are effected
The brain does not release the sigh that says
Look out for that bridge ahead
And that will be you last thought..
Your last drink
Your last drive
Your last friend
You will ever be with again.
Was it worth it?
To take one more …

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Let you go

Your touch makes me feel
Like I can do anything
Your words encourage me
To succeed to be the best I can be
With you next to me
I feel like I can truly be who ever I want to be
You care about everything I say
You listen to every complaint I make
You want me to go far
Even if that means leaving you behind
You want me to be the best I can be
At that moment everything seemed perfect
I had everything I could ever want
You presence, my parents, my friends, myself
I had the trust I wanted
I had the respect I needed
I had the love I longed for
And no matter what happened I knew I had you
How everything can change in such fast a time
How so many people, can just brake down and cry
Weather or not I chose to let you go
There is something that I want you to know
Every breath I take I think of you
Every move I make I long for you
Every tear I cry, I will stop when I think of you
Even though I don’t see you
Everyday I feel you
And I want you to know

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Too cool

Too cool

By Ashley Dufresne
Leland and Gray Union High School, Grade 10

I watch and laugh as I think
I'm glad I know that’s not cool
The sad fact is that you feel
That image is a good way to represent you
Or do you?
Why you feel like you have to pretend
Behind clouds of smoke in which we can not see
What your image is really supposed to be
Everyone knows you must not like
The taste in which you feel in spite
Is killing you with every breath you inhale
Exhale your future, minutes you could have lived
All because you got addicted when you were a kid
For whatever reason you desire to try
The stuff the media pretends to hide
You know deep down inside
Every breath you take you're living a lie
A lie that makes you look not just UNcool
But someone who doesn’t care
What the future holds in store for you

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Song 1: "i feel like this is all a dream"

Verse 1:
I feel like this is all a dream
Somebody pinch me...
I’ve been waiting so long...
For you to finally tell me
All I wanted was for you to love me
And now the tears
Have finally dried
And my hearts ready
To survive
Chorus:
Now can I tell you what I wanted to tell you?
Now can you hold me, like I wished you would hold me?
Now can you kiss me like I dreamed you would kiss me?
Now can you tell me that you really love me?
And I’m going to tell you
Everything going to be all right...

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i love you

I love you

By Ashley Dufresne
Leland and Gray Union High School, Grade 10

As the force tries and pulls me away
I will always return to you
My hand in yours, your eyes on me
You told me you loved me

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You yourself and your tears

A windy road that leads to know where
No one knows exactly where it goes, a road that has no steps, no signs
Only dead ends is where you will lie
No help, no friend ,no one there by your side
You have to figure it out alone of you may die
There are no colors, there are no shapes
It’s all black and white
You don’t know what you may face
As your cry alone under the dark sky.
Though it’s not night
Its clear broad day
But the sun is gone, it’s packed away
When you cry your tears make rain
The sound of the rain helps your pain
You know you have to get up and go on
The storm starts to come but you are strong
You push and pull your self through the night
And soon ahead you see a light
You have won you have concord your fears
The only thing that helped you
Was you, yourself, and your tears

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Confusing you for a good person

Confusing you for a good person

By Ashley Dufresne
Leland and Gray Union High School, Grade 9

There was something strong about you
That made me feel the way that I do
I thought of you as a person that I could always look to
You came into my life at the perfect time
Your smile, your touch, your gaze all of it was too much
It was that in which brightened the little light that I soon thought that I had lost
The way everything was all right when I was with you
I talked and you would listen
I would do the same for you
I never thought of you as more than just a friend
But it confused me whenever you would look at me, I couldn’t help but turn away
Every day my feelings for you would slowly grow
Every day I would learn more about you that I didn’t know
Seemed like you could pick me up whenever I was feeling down
I don’t know when my feelings changed from friends to wanting so much more
But as soon as I felt it the friendship flew out the door.

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Start from the beginning

Pale blue eyes
Soft as the morning sun rise
Pale white skin
I get the feeling she’s holding something in
Mixes feelings all around
Getting blown from cloud to cloud
She yells and she cried
But she feels no one understands why
At school she feels all alone
Like a ghost lost in a all human world
She speaks but they all laugh
And now she’s afraid and keeps it bottled in

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GHOSTS

When we first moved into our house in 2004 we have heard from everyone from our naborhood that a woman had gotten murdered from her cereal killer ex husband. I was scared at the thought of the subject. But I did not believe it. The relater told us that nothing like that has ever happened. But I always wanted to know what were the red spilled stains all over the attic floor.

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Love?

They say that they will love you
And you haven’t got a clue
That the only reason they say that
Is because they want to get with you
You want them to love you
You want what they say to be true
So you have made the wrong decision
That will now come back and haunt you
After days go by
You realize what he has done
He has manipulated you
And he has won
You now realize what love is

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A song

Verse 1.
She cries all alone
When there is no one home
She doesn’t want him to know that she loves him
She's been hurt before
She doesn’t want to be hurt anymore
But she knows that she can’t help that she loves him

Chorus
Somebody loves him
Somebody loves her
They love each other
And they both know it (repeat)

Verse 2.
He is in love with her
He wants to be with her

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the tree

tall slim patient and wise
through the years you let us clime
through cold winter nights, warm summer days
you stood there stong with out any complaints.
as we got older you stayd still
and soon we diddnt come to visit you anymore
but you stayd tall slim patient and wise
until another little girl comes and then dies.

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