#structured writing

[sunniispirit]

Why is there a lid on my creativity?

It just occurred to me that I always suck at structured writing prompts and formats! Ever since 4th grade I can remember failing a writing assessment because I added unnecessary details to my paper to make it fun. Now I'm being told it's fluff and I need to only write what I need! All those little details make a paper!! All of them.

[budbrowniesandhash-blog]

[poetrypincushion]

A Contradictory Confession

21/11/2012

Engulfed endlessly by what I ignore,

I want to detach from what I adore.

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Past pictures photographed inside my eyelids,

Now closing my eyes is what my body forbids.

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 Many question marks of who, where, how, what and why,

Unsaid apologies but numerous goodbyes.

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So I’ll glaze my eyes and erase my mind,

So my past is something you’ll never find.

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I’m bathed in my shame but I’m hidden by my smiles,

Innocence is what I claim outwardly all the while.

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‘Ignorance’ is the burden that I bare,

To protect those for whom I really care.

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Even in still silence my screams cannot be heard,

My conscience will not allow me to breathe one word.

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Each step does twinge and each smile does tear, 

My unwilling soul from my own despair .

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Do you really hear my words and do you embrace my afflictions, 

Or do you see my innocent face and see this as a distorted contradiction?