week12-08

Callie Cox of White River Junction and an eighth grader at Hartford Memorial Middle School, says this about her piece: “When I made this I was thinking of fire and ice and what they might look like together. I like the whole picture, especially how the different colors blend together. I like art and pictures because you can express yourself in many different ways. In this picture, I wanted to express how fire and ice can be different but when blended, the same.”

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Stress

By Jackie Potter
Rochester High School, Grade 10

Oh you poor, poor soul. You have to make a decision; what a shame. It’s not so easy is it? But when has anything ever been simple? You just expect the answer to fall right into your lap. Whoops. I guess you were wrong there.

Funny. I don’t recall you ever being wrong.

By Lily Schmoker
Williston Central School, Grade 5

I see T.J. reading. I ask him if he wants to play.
He says, “Maybe.” I beg, “Please, please, please, please.”
He finally says yes.
T.J. and I start to play. We’re having lots of fun.
He tickles me, and I laugh very hard.
It’s fun or a while, but then he was doing it too much.
I’m still laughing when I ask T.J. to stop.

Sibling Rivalry Leads to Double Trouble (A True Story)

By Jared Keyes
Charlotte Central School, Grade 7

Many families with children have to deal with sibling rivalry. In my family you would think it would be particularly true because I am a twin. My brother is not only the same age but he looks exactly like me. I could tell you twin stories- like when we switched places in school on April Fool’s Day and see who could fool his teacher the longest. (The teachers are still talking about that one!) But my family has a favorite story.

What is Stress?

By Meredith Cross
Charlotte Central School, Grade 8

Stress is when you wake up 30 minutes late.
Stress is when you forget your homework at home.
Stress is when there is one more second on the clock in the championship basketball game, your team is one point behind, and you have the ball.

Sibling Rivalry

By Mindy Yeung
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8

I know that we may not get along,
But I still love you,
Even if you locked me in the attic for five hours

I know that we fight a lot,
But I’ll still let you win the argument
Even if the statement is unbelievably false

I know the look in your eyes,
When everything is wrong,

Stress

By Alicia Cerasoli
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8

Stress.
The word says it all.
A disease I am diagnosed with…
Everyday.
A headache,
The pile of work,
What else could go wrong?
Like a simple cold,
It won’t go away.
Stress haunts me,
Day and night.
Stress,
When will it go away?

Stress

By Laura Voelker-Hebert
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8

I stare off into the sky,
Hands all fisted up,
Just wishing I could forget everything and start out new.
I stand up to calm down
Turn around and run,
Running and screaming to get it all out
Slowly tearing up
As I force it to stay in.
I fall to the ground
And cry,
Cry it all away

Prince

By Rebecca White
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8

Being a prince is hard enough, especially when you one of eight brothers. Yes, you can have fancy robes and your bed is always made for you. Your hair is slicked back in tight lace ribbons by a maid whose only job is your wardrobe. It may seem like a life of luxury and extravagance, but it is more a cruel joke for outsiders.

Stressed?

By Gianna Carchia
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Meditate
When there is too much homework
Meditate
When there is trouble at school
Meditate
When it is too much to handle
Meditate
When you are looking for an answer
Meditate
When you feel like the maid
Meditate
When your friends treat you badly
Meditate
When it feels like the end
Meditate
To get rid of stress
Meditate
And just let it all go

Siblings

By Tyler Barnes
Charlotte Central School, Grade 7

Hate to love them,
love to hate them.
They're never right,
and always wrong.

I’m so stressed. You see I got up this morning thinking this was going to be a great day, but so far it sucks. OK, so before I got up, I heard my parents talking about calling the farm (my job) and telling them that I would not be able to work any more. I just thought to myself, “What are they talking about”?

By Henry Farrand
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

A sister, a brother
And me as the other
They much younger than me
There is a line that you can clearly see
I am older,
They are younger
But that doesn’t stop
These fights that we may opt
It begins with a simple remark
Then we begin to embark
Into a rampage of anger and dismay
I just want to say
“Stay away!”

S-T-R-E-S-S

By Katherine DiBella
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Stress,
Could you please use that in a sentence?
Stress in causing me to feel pressure to do things I shouldn’t, giving into my friends because they say I need to relax.
Stress,
S-T-R-E-S-S,
Stress,
Correct,
Anxiety,
Could you please use that in a sentence?

Do You Think I Don't Have Enough Homework Already?

By Sean Bjornsson
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

My what a beautiful day.
Eight o'clock, school starts.
First period, I get an essay.
I can deal with that.
Second period, a report due the same day as the essay.
I'll be up late.
Third period, ten chapters of dense reading.
I don't know how it will all happen.

Being a Teenager

By Samantha Burns
Fairfield Center School, Grade 8

Between boyfriends and breakouts,
And the pressure to do drugs,
The fight never ends.
I want my fingers to plug out
All the nasty words
That fly through the halls
As if spread by birds.

Why can’t we go back to playing dolls?
Back to when you didn’t have to worry about what you wore,

By Sean McCoy
Fairfield Center School, Grade 8

What fills me up with stress
Is something that you would not normally guess
It’s something every week we get
That has a time limit set
It’s the Young Writers Project that stresses me
That fills me so with misery
It’s supposed to be optional for us to do
Yet I don’t think my teacher has that clue

Every Time

By Sam Stockwell
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Every time,
Every stinkin’ time
He beats me.
Basketball is my sport,
I think I’m ready,
I think I’m on fire,
And every time
He beats me.
I’m ready to play
I practice
I hone my skills
I run through my moves
I go over my gameplan,
But everytime it doesn’t matter.
Every time he beats me

Stress

By Michelle Ballou
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Stress.
You want to talk stress?!?!Alright, let us talk, you and I. Converse about that which makes our minds boggle with pain, head ache and body sore. Lets share with one another that which makes us break down and scream silent sounds:PSATS, SATS, that Bio lab, that English book, the math test, the clarinet piece, that vocabulary work, the World history presentation….
CLEAN
YOUR
ROOM!

By Phillip James Parish
Rochester High School, Grade 9

Looking through a book with a thousand pictures in it
the very last page there is finally one with
a kid named pj in it
it looks so tiny there in the middle
just a little picture of me yet he is still
right there making me feel so little
look at him just sitting there in his glory
smiling and making me look so annoying

Stress

By Phillip James Parrish
Rochester High School, Grade 9

Looks like steam coming out of tea pot
Sounds like someone punching a brick wall
Tastes like chewing on a peice of rubber
Smells like a horse pasture
Feels like touching a chalk board
Stress is a nightmare!

Stress

By Maddie Gilbert
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

The stress and pressure.
From teachers,
From parents,
From myself.

It pushes down.
Down, hard on my chest,
Until the work’s done,
Until I’ve done my best.

It never stops,
As soon as something
Ends, another
Starts.

There’s no break.
From when I get home the first night,
Through the year

Autistic Brother

By Hugh Garrett Randall
Rochester High School, Grade 10

Living, breathing, seeing, being.
You are always there with a physical appearance and a smile
But you say nothing.
On and on you stare as each day goes by.
What are you thinking about?
You are living, I feel you.
I hear your cries; I feel the walls and the floor as they shake.
No one knows your pain, not even me.
And I’ve known you for 14 years.
I wish I could let you know it’s alright.
That you have a family that loves you,
Friends that would stick by you through anything.
But you don’t understand.
My efforts to communicate are disastrous.
I talk, but then anger takes over.
And I do things I wish I could take back.
Could you ever find the words to forgive me?
My efforts amount to nothing, and violence fills the empty void.
The harder I try the more I hurt you and the people around me
Then their efforts amount to nothing.
So the cycle goes on.
Every day is the same,

By Halley Peterson
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

My brother and I,
We don’t compete
He has his world
And I have mine
They never seem to overlap
A savior to us both

For since we never need compete
In school or sports
The outdoors or first aid
We always seem to get along
And enjoy the time we spend
With one another.

Stress

By Hannah Trieb
Rice Memorial High School, Grade 9

Stress is very difficult to deal with. I really do not like when I am stressed. I get stressed a lot of the time on various things. Usually I get overwhelmed when I have a lot of homework, things to do for school, or just things to do in general.

By Sara Cook
Rice Memorial High School

With the youngest it is tough
With having older sibling it may get rough
You are not allowed to have food when your siblings are eating fluff
If eat too much you get stuffed

By Ryan Veilleux
Rochester High School, Grade 9

HOMEWORK – Help!

By Paige Randall
Rice Memorial High School, Grade 9

Stress pushes me to do my best
My mind is racing, never at rest.

These thoughts are heavy, on my mind
I long for time, just to unwind.

Sometimes I add, to all this pressure
By loosing homework, in my dresser.

I feel the urge, to IM or text,
Another distraction, delaying what’s next.

Stress

By Danielle Morrissey
Rice Memorial High School, Grade 9

"While situations, encounters or events may seem intrinsically 'stressful,' it is truly how an individual perceives and reacts to an event that determines whether or not the stress response is activated."
-Institute of HeartMath, Research Over-viewer