Flashbacks and Writers Block

My fingers pound the keys

What's inside of me won't come out

Frustrated, exacerbated, and weary

The words might be too scary

Conjuring up secrets long hidden inside of me

Shoved down with garbage put on top

To hold it all safely in place

Now, I can't bring it all forward no matter how I try

Sometimes it's all right there

Memories so frightful, and images that terrorize

Behind my eyes are scenes untold

Unable to be expressed on paper

Down in my gnawing intestines I will hold

Nightmares,  demons, and monsters so bold

Things children shouldn't experience

Or so I'm told

 

If I'm not careful it will seep out

When I'm not thinking or looking about

Slimy, nasty, dirty tales

Of a child's living hell of

Nightmares, demons, and monsters so bold

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[BLACKCRUSH]

I definitely can relate to this piece , the shoving down of emotions because there just so painful your afraid if one gets out a flood of emotions might happen. Your imagery in this was incredible , the lines that really rang true to me were "Nightmares , demons and monsters so bold , Things children shouldn't experience , Or so I'm told ". I sense this was a very hard write because there is so much emotion in this piece.This was a really moving write , great work.

[THERISA]

How can i do a review on a subject, which is too close to heart. Of flashbacks, which i am still trying to understand and handle. Without them, gaining the upper hand on me. Wish you, didn't have to deal with these issues, Carroll. No one should have.

[Hisou_Tenshi]

Very interesting to say the least. The fight to keep things inside is difficult, but sometimes the fight to bring it out and control it can be more difficult.

[Jamie S.]

I really enjoyed this one. It brought back some bad thoughts from my own childhood but allows me to make sure my kids have an awesome one! What doesnt kill us makes us stronger. Thank you for sharing such an emotionally powerful piece.

-Jamie

[John McGrael]

this perfectly describes how i felt all last month...

damnnnnn

i really like this... definitely adding it to favorites

i really hate writersblock... its the worst
trying to express yourself through the usual medium of words and rhyme, but it just not working

[Penslinger]

Love your imagery~Are you writing, or painting??
Very nice~~

[JRenee]

wow! this moved me from one feeling to the next with the 'flick of a pen'... i went from creeping into the over-filled classroom 5 minutes late on the first day of middle school to feeling shock, horror and embarassment when the teacher notices me coming in late, to wanting to slink down in my chair to hide and cry out of shame.

thanks for the trip!
-JRenee

[Blackwood]

The First thing that attracted me to the piece was the title.

At first it seemed to be a normal piece about our worse enemy but it quickly transformed itself to something more personal and meaningful. It remains vague enough for the reader to transpose what of their own darkness may be hiding or less remembered. The last few rhyming lines adds a different quality almost as if its taken out of the real world and into a fantasyland...that I actually enjoyed a lot, though I don't know if that was intentional

[Janesy]

oh the truth!

I love this piece.

[J Carly]

I truly loved this piece, and how it so vividly, and yet ambiguously described the thoughts that go through your mind when you are 'blocked'.

In my experience, writing about the things that come in those flashbacks, helps to free us from writer's block, because 'Nightmares, demons, and monsters so bold' can only further block your creativity when you hold them inside.
Very well written. This piece had a very nice flow, and I had a beat in my head as I read it. It's going in my favorites! :)