Project 3
Boredom
My boredom has gotten extremely out of hand,
I end up just sitting all-day,
The longer I stare at the ceiling I can see images form,
And a scene began to appear,
I see a woman running freely without a thought in her head,
She can run anywhere and as far as she wants,
The air is cold all around her,
Her throat begins to tingle and sting from the brisk morning air,
Her eyes gleam in the sun as if to say,
Look at my freedom!
But as I said my boredom has gotten out of control,
I’m just imagining it, no one could be that free.
Overflow
A boy lays crumpled on the floor,
Letting his tears slowly soak into the carpet,
A girl stands over him and watches this sobber scene,
And with one look she is utterly baffled,
She thinks to herself what could possibly make someone so sad,
There's nothing in her oh so small world that could make her feel that way,
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The thought of showing so much emotion seemed so incomprehensible,
Why would anyone want the world to know what they were feeling,
She looked at him again and as she listened to his cries she realized the truth behind his tears,
It's not that the boy wanted to put his feelings on display,
It was that he had felt so deeply, he was bursting with pain,
Just like a glass that gets to full, it can only hold so much,
Before it begins to overflow.
distraction
Abandoned by the world, forgotten, and thrown away.
I sit waiting for my chance to strike, and when I see my moment I pounce diving headfirst.
I stumble and fall, but I never stop and I never go back.
My head is looking up to the future, I can see it, I can have success, I just have to keep working
I work till my hands bleed and shutter, until I lose feeling in my legs, for if I stop moving I will slowly fade.
I keep going and yet a small strand floats in front of my face,
I grab it and pull, I pull it until my friends yell, they say it will unwind my life I need to cut it off,
yet I have this gut feeling it will all work out for the world sent me this distraction it will only help me grow,
what my friends prophesied came true my life was unraveled and a mess,
but through those hard times, I learned and grew,
I will not stop I will keep moving for that strand has sown its way into my life and made me stronger,
I will not stop because that bright future is just in front of my fingertips.
reflective piece
My first piece “Boredom” is my attempt at playing with reality. I made this so that the point of view shifts from first to third easily. By using this I attempted to have the reader forget what the original reality was. I used the “death of O'Brien” to influence this piece because it so easily moves from one point of view to another. My second piece “overflow” is about not being able to understand other's feelings. so to get this point across I used third person limited. The reader sees inside the girl's head while she is trying to understand how another is feeling. I really want to convey the idea of knowledge and restricted knowledge. I used references from most of our readings this semester to write this one. My final piece “distraction is a basic first-person point of view. I tried to use the idea of a classic hero that starts with nothing and has to work hard to find success. And just how all classic hero stories go something is thrown in to distract the hero from their goal. But after they have endured through the distraction they come out a stronger and better person. I believe the most difficult part of this was just trying to find ideas and start. I needed to just sit down and write something then build off that and restructure to make it better. In the end, this was pretty fun I learned how to switch point of view and how to use it to convey a certain message.
