Nicole LeBlond

Rain, rain
Oh the pain!
It ruins lots of sports games
And it derails trains
The background in banes
But oh the sweet, sweet gains of rain
Crops bloom
The grass illuminates vibrantly underneath the sun’s rays
Rain, rain
OH RAIN

One elaborate night…
Makeup
Dresses
Music
Dates
Limos
Dancing
Having a ball
The after party
One night, a thousand memories…

Winter Serenity

By Nicole LeBlond
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Out alone nothing but me and the cold
Crackling trees bend and snap in the frigid air surrounding me.
The trees stand tall and mighty towering several feet above me.
I glance and see the snowflakes dance.
As the snowflakes cascade toward the ground they form a jigsaw puzzle.
Each snowflake that falls is a new piece to the jigsaw puzzle of winter.
After a fall, a winter wonderland is complete.

The jigsaw reveals a completely new world of glistening wonders.

I zone back into my surroundings
I hum the melody of “What a Wonderful World” in my own world of
melancholia.
The air that embraces me is a frigid blanket of bitterness
My eardrums echo the songs of chickadees
My shoes sound the crunching of snow nestled tightly together,
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Scary movies
All hallows eve
The dark
Dark water
Clowns
Sharks
Snakes
We can over come these things
Because fear is just an emotion

I’ve got this feeling inside me
An anxiety
It might just explode if I cannot get it out of me
Premonition…

The color of life
The sign of spring
The color of leaves
The color of trees
The color of birth in nature
Green.

Most people have four, or one
Were special and have five
We have an extra
When winter ends, this season begins
Before spring it takes it toll
Brown, mucky, ooie, gooie
It’s mud season and its here

It's not right.
It's corrupt.
It's immoral.
It's bullying.
It need to stop.

Being something your not is not you
Be you
Not something that’s not

Cheating on quizzes
Cheating on tests
Cheating on a boyfriend
Cheating on a girlfriend
In the end, you are cheating yourself,
From a better education
From a better career
From a better future
Cheating is lying
Lying is to deceive
Do not deceive yourself of the best you can be
Rise above the temptations of evil

December 25, 2007, Christmas day-no snow
End of January, 2007-no snow
February, 2007-first snow fall that lasts until April
I’m a skier who is against global warming
It’s not just bad for the mountain, but for everyone who is apart of mother earth
We take advantage of you
We do not even care
Until you start to warm up the air
We begin to notice
Have we done anything?

Mistake

By Nicole LeBlond
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

When you have everything going for you,
There is no time to slip out of that perfect mold
That is crafted by the impression of others
And there it is it just happened,
Right before your eyes you slipped out of the mold ,
Out of people’s expectations,
Out of your coaches,
Out of your own
But it’s the truth,

The biggest day of my life
The biggest game
The pressure
The intensity
The building rise of power
Who will triumph over all?
Who will claim the name of number one?
There are many losers, but only one winner
We are going to be that winner,
We are Woodstock Union High School Girls Soccer

Three

By Nicole LeBlond
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Our lady of the snows,
Make us your magic
We wish we may have this wish tonight
that you may cast down your whitewash beauty,
On this eve so bare

Our lady of the snows,
Make us our magic.
We wish we may have this wish tonight.
That you may cast down your whitewash beauty,
On this eve so bare

Our lady of the snows,
Make us our magic.
We wish we may have this wish tonight.
That you may cast down your whitewash beauty,
On this eve so bare

Stress…
Mistakes
Bitter moments
Confusion
Manipulation
Wounded feelings
Expectations
Consequences
Blame
Stress…

My heart is pounding
My hands are sweating
My nerves tingle from my nose down to my toes
So many judging eyes
Am I going to fail myself?
No, think positive!
You know this
Think grace.
I hit the box of my toe shoes against the backstage floor
I edge myself into the blinding lights
5, 6, 7, 8
I live for this moment!
Dance is my life!

Expectations

By Nicole LeBlond
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Expectations are high,
Living up to certain degrees of achievements,
Expanding and contracting to fit into people’s mold and opinions of you,
Stress,
Anxiety,
Fear of failure,
Competing with your competition,
Yourself.
Striving to be better than last time,
It’s exhausting,
Agonizing,
The push,