Issue I

Welcome to the first issue of WORD for 2008, Bishop Kearney High School's online Literary Magazine. In this issue you will find samplings of writing and art from the diverse community of students at Bishop Kearney.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009






Anew by Ms. Hansen



Tears down cheeks they trickle
Love and life are surely fickle
A friend today but not tomorrow
A piece is lost, I’m drenched in sorrow
But from that cloud, a rainbow found
strength and hope do me surround
A helping hand, a smiling face
the pain a hopeful heart replace
No longer closed in fear and pain
I’m free to share my heart again
Tree By the Sea


by Lauren Parker
Night Creatures by Molly Mahoney


Night Creatures
Green grass
Turning Brown
Blue skies
Turning black
Howling winds
Picking up
That is when they like to play
Scurry, scurry
Home you hurry
They are coming
Oh no, oh no
Picking victims
Not so choosy
Fresh blood
Is just like love
Scurry, scurry
Home, you hurry
They are coming
Oh no, oh no
Cannot you here them
Sly as a fox
Hunting you down
They are right behind you
Scurry, scurry
Home you hurry
They are coming
Oh no, oh no
You cannot run now
They trail you expertly
Grinning like mad men
They are not sorry
Scurry, scurry
Home, you hurry
They are here
Oh no, oh no
Time Bomb by Molly Mahoney


Tick
Tick
Tick
The clock
Clambering on
Sounds like a time bomb
About to explode
Tock
Tock
Tock
We look at each other
But what is left to say
We have argued, cried, and screamed
So nothing
Tick
Tock
Tick
We may sit like this
Forever
Praying for one more chance
That will never come
Tock
Tick
Tock
I guess our time is up
So I start to cry
You nod your head
We have been defeated
Tick
Tock
Our time is gone
Forever
Untitled by Anonymous


I have been waiting
For the day
And time
When I can escape
This hell on earth
This place
No one can call home
This place where
Witches write their evil spells
And demons dwell
You cannot begin to imagine
What has come and gone
In this house
What bittersweet love
Has had its last testimony here
What lullaby song
Has screeched its raging tongue
For all children to hear
With glasses breaking
In the public hall
For all the guests to see
Where alcohol and anger mix
In one parent’s greed
I live in this place
Where everybody knows
What goes on
In these suffocating halls
And suffering rooms
Where someone is
Always crying
And
Where witches write their evil spells
And demons dwell
Rain by Molly Mahoney


Drizzle
Drizzle
Pitter pat
Sweet raindrops
Tap
Tap
Tap
I dance
I spin and twirl
While the rain
Come tumbling down
Splash
Splash
It falls harder
Mating down my hair
Tight curls unwound
Swish
Swish
Swish
I sweep through puddles
Dreaming of more raindrops
The high wind pulls and tugs
Whistling in my ears
Howel
Howel
I pull the soaking coat close
While the rain comes down
Drizzle
Drizzle
Pitter pat
I guess we say goodbye
But I hope to see you again
Sometime

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

By Danielle Stewart


"Cry"

It was five o’clock in the morning
Walkin’ down that street
All I could see was the stars and you

It was like a story
I had so often heard
So when you leaned towards me and kissed me
I wasn’t scared

It started out beautiful
Like every fairytale
From Cinderella to Snow White
I know you’d be there
To catch me when I fell

Oh and I fell
But you didn’t catch me that time no~
You let me slip through your arms
And I crashed into the ground

It was so beautiful
That it almost brought tears to my eyes
But I wouldn’t cry
Not in front of you
Never in front of you~

Do you ask yourself why?
Why did you let me go?
I’m coming back to you

I’ll never cry for you
‘Cause you not worth my tears~
I can’t cry for you
‘Cause you aren’t the one in my heart
I guess I just moved on



"Come Back Home"

Looking back at the night sky
As I run from you
I wonder where I went wrong
I remember those days so clearly

I remember lying in the grass
And looking at the clouds
I remember when we were children
You said one day that you’d marry me
What went wrong?

What happened then, please tell me
Why did you have to go?
You promised me first not those others
Will I ever see you again?
My soldier boy

Three years have gone by
I try so hard to just forget you
But I remember those days
Almost like yesterday
Please tell me why!

Why did you have to go?
I keeping asking myself this question
I’m down here on my knees now
My soldier boy~

So I’m standing here today
You don’t know how much I miss you~
I know I’ll always ask myself this question

Oh why, did you have to go?
‘Cause I know that if you didn’t you’d be with me
And now I cry to myself in this crowd
And the flag closes gently
My soldier boy

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I have been waiting

For the day

And time

When I can escape

This hell on earth

This place

No one can call home

This place where

Witches write their evil spells

And demons dwell

You cannot begin to imagine

What has come and gone

In this house

What bittersweet love

Has had its last testimony here

What lullabye song

Has screeched its raging tongue

For all children to hear

With glasses breaking

In the public hall

For all the guests to see

Where alcohol and anger mix

In one parent’s greed

I live in this place

Where everybody knows

What goes on

In these suffocating halls

And suffering rooms

Where someone is

Always crying

And

Where witches write their evil spells

And demons dwell



Molly Mahoney

Drizzle

Drizzle

Pitter pat

Sweet raindrops

Tap

Tap

Tap

I dance

I spin and twirl

While the rain

Come tumbling down

Splash

Splash

It falls harder

Mating down my hair

Tight curls unwound

Swish

Swish

Swish

I sweep through puddles

Dreaming of more raindrops

The high wind pulls and tugs

Whistling in my ears

Howel

Howel

I pull the soaking coat close

While the rain comes down

Drizzle

Drizzle

Pitter pat

I guess we say goodbye

But I hope to see you again

Sometime


Molly Mahoney

“Cry”

It was five o’clock in the morning

Walkin’ down that street

All I could see was the stars and you

It was like a story

I had so often heard

So when you leaned towards me and kissed me

I wasn’t scared

It started out beautiful

Like every fairytale

From Cinderella to Snow White

I know you’d be there

To catch me when I fell

Oh and I fell

But you didn’t catch me that time no~

You let me slip through your arms

And I crashed into the ground

It was so beautiful

That it almost brought tears to my eyes

But I wouldn’t cry

Not in front of you

Never in front of you~

Do you ask yourself why?

Why did you let me go?

I’m coming back to you

I’ll never cry for you

‘Cause you not worth my tears~

I can’t cry for you

‘Cause you aren’t the one in my heart

I guess I just moved on


Danielle Stewart
The Stalker

Soft and fluffy, white as snow
The little dog stalks her pray
So quietly and stealthily
She thinks I do not know

The little dog stalks her pray
With a clumsy form of grace
She thinks I do not know
She is slowly approaching me from behind

With a clumsy form of grace
Her stalking slows, a rubber toy in her mouth
She thinks I do not know
She is behind me, ready to pounce

-Lauren Parker
Shoe
Someone once ate their shoe,
Nobody knew why or who,
Some say its legend, not true,
Believe it or not, up to you.

They said he was messing with fate
Because of the sole that he ate
It couldn't have tasted too great,
He must have had hate for the sole that he ate.

They said he punished forever,
By all means, even by weather,
He was faced with challenges and endeavors,
The punishment was only too clever.

An eternal life in Hell,
Made fun of at show and at tell,
In Heaven, but then he had fallen,
Hell became the Devil's new calling.

-By: Alexander Triassi
Snow
by Kellsey Evers

As long as there is snow
white flakes will show.

The cold can cause conflict for some
while others find comfort in it,

Snow is but a mask
which covers the green and warmth of summer.

Yet, who can deny the beauty of the season?
Who can say no to the bright white flakes?

Arguments – By Colleen Casey

“Don’t do that” Said the Koala to the Bear

He was returned with an innocent stare

“I didn’t think you’d care”

“Well, I do” the Koala said, matter of factly

“Why?” said the bear, quite moodily

“Because it annoys me!” Koala said, incredulously

“All bears chew with their mouth open”

For a while, Koala remained unspoken

Then

“They do, but not like you”

“Sure they do”

Sarcastically came Koala’s remark; “Who knew?”

Bear remarked “I’ll stop chewing with my mouth open if you do one thing for me”

“And that is?” Koala said with mocking glee

“Wipe yourself up, next time you pee.”

“You see you’re not very clean,

And I don’t want to be mean,

But you stink. And you must have good hygiene.”

Happiness

Written by Kenneth Nguyen

As long as there is a kid laughing and enjoying a lovely life

Watching the stars without any strife, there will be happiness

As long as there is a person who finds true love

Living life to its fullest, there will be happiness

As long as there is a family who cares and shares with unselfishness,

Concerned for one another, there will be happiness

What is happiness?

Happiness is the blind man saying he sees to his deaf dog

Victory



Victory is sweet
so unlike defeat

Move with fast feet
down the court to score

both teams want to win
but one has to lose, so

whether by dunks or shots
victory is a dimension of greatness


Matthew Strauss

Winter was not a pleasant time to walk in the streets of Sulschek. In fact, there was never a pleasant time to be walking in the streets of Sulschek, according to the CEO. Countless laws had been put in place restricting even the noble citizens from using unnecessary movement. Movement causes discovery. Discovery causes ideas. Ideas cause revolutions. The capital of the world didn’t get its reputation by letting people think whatever they wanted, after all.

But this did not stop Vasily Weitztov. He made his way hurriedly but silently through the red ruins of Old Moscow to the Inner City of Sulschek. At least, that’s where he thought he was heading. He couldn’t be certain, but the man he was following was wearing an almost flawless black suit. Nobody wore suits in Old Moscow. Nobody.

On an ordinary day, the suit in question would have been flawless. If you worked in the city, or if you worked at all for that matter, you were flawless. But this man’s suit was not flawless. It was torn, wrinkled, and stained, all because of a slight mistake in his actions. A great mistake, thought Vasily, a great one indeed.

Vasily, like everyone else in the world, only knew a life of poverty and darkness. But at least everyone else had friends. Vasily’s mother forced him into secretly studying Government and Politics of Modern Society, and no one wants to be friends with a businessman. Businessmen, after all, were the reason for poverty and darkness. Vasily suffered through life much more than anyone else on the planet. And that’s saying something.

Vasily’s father never wanted a wife, a child, or a family. He only did what he needed to do in order to survive. Vasily never knew who his father was, but his Mother, the gracious Guianna Weitztov, always knew. “Just like your Papa,” she would say, all too often. Vasily never understood why he was praised for being like his father. His father had ruined their lives. What was there to be grateful for?

And now Guianna was dead. She was the reason for Vasily’s illegal excursion. Guianna was, literally, Vasily’s life. Without his mother, there was no more life worth living. And so, with nothing more than a makeshift knife in hand, Vasily continued on through the poverty stricken alleyways of Old Moscow.

Whispers filled cold, dry air as the mysterious man walked past. Even louder were the whispers as Vasily passed. The man showed no signs of slowing. He briskly turned the corner and continued in the dark. He continued, that is, until a woman threw an empty bottle at Vasily’s face and screamed, “Traitor!” The alley went silent. There were no whispers, no footsteps; the only sounds heard were the painful shrieks of the wind. Vasily froze to find the nearly infallible man approaching him. His head was bowed, his hands stuffed in his pockets.

He raised his right hand and his head at the same time. As he did this, Vasily realized two things about the strange man he had followed. Poised in the man’s right hand was a gun. It was no ordinary gun, though, and Vasily recognized it immediately. It was the infamous Series I Softnose, the most powerful weapon of the age, and there was only one in the world.

But more than anything Vasily saw something odd about the man’s face. It was something beyond his complexion, his features, or his expression. Vasily recognized the man, not as the CEO, not as an assassin, but as someone all too familiar for Vasily to pass by. “He is just like me,” his last thoughts, as his father pulled the trigger for the second time that day.

Needless to say, Vasily never avenged his mother’s death. But at least he was safe with her.



Anonymous

Through the woods, camera in hand

Nature draws my lens open to show off its beauty

A babbling brook in the distance calls me forward

Take a stance, snap the frame

Nature draws my lens open to show off its beauty

A massive trunk split in half

Take a stance, snap the frame

Keep moving through the fresh fallen snow

Nature draws my lens open to show off its beauty

The setting sun glistening on the fresh crystal on the ground

Take a stance, snap the frame

Next, the light shines through the barren trees

Nature draws my lens open to show off its beauty

Hands cold and crisp, cringing in the wind

Take a stance, snap the frame

Through the woods, camera in hand



Amanda Webster

The Sun (pantoum)

It heats the world and gives creation life,

Without it only desolation would live,

There would be no time,

No time but night.

Without it only desolation would live

There would be nothing

No time but night

No sound, and no sight.

There would be nothing

Not even a motion

No sound, and no sight

All that would be is the darkness of night.

Not even a motion

Only the silence of calmness

All that would be is the darkness of night

It heats the world and gives creation life.



Matthew Peszynski
Baseball

Here’s the pitch
Swing and a miss
The crowd goes wild
The team heads for the dugout

Swing and a miss
The seasons over
The team heads for the dugout
Many tears are shed

The seasons over
Their chance is gone
Many tears are shed
Maybe next year

Their chance is gone
Their hope is lost
Maybe next year
Couldn’t come any sooner

Their hope is lost
But next year is here
Couldn’t come any sooner
Here’s the pitch


James Knox
 
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