https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d There's too much pain not to know my human soul. I've been shamed and bruised. My writing is a reclaiming of myself. And I'm not sorry for it. en-us 2020-05-01 01:28:19 UTC 2025-12-11 00:02:49 UTC hello@padlet.com meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543328936 This piece was actually written in therapy, suggesting that my writing is healing. It is pain pressed into white sheets and left to do what writing does...make people feel less alone. I want to let people see into the narrative I write for myself, instead of what they write for me. ]]> 2020-05-01 01:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543328936 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543330714 There was a time where writing couldn't even comfort me. It's feeling trapped, it's a self solitary, not being able to put you in my skin. Literally rip it off, and wrap it around you. Sometimes that's the only way I think I can get to you. When I push perfectionism on myself, it isn't the need to sound good. It's the need for you to see it. Can you see it, this way?  It's the most intense emotions that pour the words out. ]]> 2020-05-01 01:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543330714 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543343233 There are some things that are hard to write about. She was one of them. I don't often write about her because the nostalgia sets in very quickly, but you could tell I loved her by what I could remember. I don't like to describe people by the way they look it doesn't do justice to the narrative, but for this poem, that's what was most important. ]]> 2020-05-01 01:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543343233 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543354230 I tend to use repetition as a structural device, but this was new for me. I used age as a way to move the narrative. It's a coming of age poem. It shows just how complicated our personalities are. When I turn 18, I'm not going to just be 18. I'm going to be 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, all the way back to my mothers impregnation. ]]> 2020-05-01 01:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543354230 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543362499 My conversations tend to fall flat, so to produce a realistic dialogue for a scene was extremely difficult. But isn't it really about what the character doesn't say? I love tension. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543362499 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543363334 2020-05-01 02:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543363334 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543370688 When your mind is clouded by pain, you have the right to be angry. You have the right to self worth. This goes no where, but remember you are capable of advocating for yourself. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543370688 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543374837 There's something so tragic about learning this after the fact. After the shame has set in and the label looses contextual focus. When you look in the mirror and you judge her for all she is. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543374837 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543378558 2020-05-01 02:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543378558 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543380766 The courage of these celebrities make me feel like I too can survive the humiliation I received as seventh grader. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543380766 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543383599 This book sits in my library at home, and helped to play with form within dialogue. Play writing is completely knew to me, therefore to start with an abstract approach made me less afraid of creating. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543383599 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543388176 This was the first big piece I wrote for this class. I'm not very good at short stories, but I was proud of completing this one. I know I played with point of view, and in order to tell this story I think i'd need to go back and write it in third person. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543388176 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543390891 2020-05-01 02:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543390891 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543391897 The way artists capture us. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543391897 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543394198 When there's nothing to do, you've got to make a choice. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543394198 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543395556 This is longing. He wasn't going to save you. You were. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543395556 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543397019 2020-05-01 02:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543397019 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543400221 Act opposite, I'm grateful for the pain. ]]> 2020-05-01 02:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543400221 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543403074 I'm alive, and this I know. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543403074 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543405320 I don't normally write about love, so I sing. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543405320 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543406676 Knowing your art, is what makes it easy to love you. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543406676 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543408543 Our angsty minds have been written. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543408543 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543410760 When you're done crying, stand up and say something...anything.]]> 2020-05-01 03:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543410760 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543414485 This is why I write. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543414485 meghanbourgeault https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543416063 I'd sing this to myself if I could. ]]> 2020-05-01 03:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanbourgeault/n3qfm2slpsgew99d/wish/543416063