Extra Credit: Writing About Writing

While we were all writing that vigorous essay on theme, from To Kill a Mockingbird, I was stumbled across a poem I wrote in 8th grade.

It was started one cold and dreary Sunday night; Adora was sitting by the fireside, plowing through piles of papers hoping to find that draft on theme, from the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. As she sorted through the mountains of paper, a picture of a flaming heart caught her eye. She brought it close and found  a poem attached. The poem was brilliant, it brought back memories Adora will never forget.

In eighth grade, our block class was studying Edgar Allen Poe. The assignment was to create a piece of art, then write about it. I drew a heart on fire.I chose to express the picture in a poem. The poem "Twisted Love" was one of the most beautiful writing pieces I've ever proceduced in my writing career so far. The sense you got after reading it was mind blowing. The words were so meaningful and moving. I don't know how I wrote about love in such a powerful way, since I've never experience that kind of love before. This poem brought back so many thoughts. The issues I was going through in eighth grade, which now seem so small and petty. It showed me what passion I once had while writing this. I think now about why I'm not getting that feeling anymore when I write, why I'm not happy nor proud of what I do. What happened? This poem is helping me become that writer I was proud of, the writer where I care about what I’m writing about. Even though, I didn't have a good foundation for writing, I was still touched by what I wrote; I had an instinct that it was good. Writing has always been my way of expressing myself, the way I get out my feeling, and opinions, and somewhat sort out my thoughts, even when writing a book report. I think finding this poem, will truly bring back the wonderful writer I once was, possibly bring back the Adora, I once was.