lunaticofsilence

a tessellation of words all pretty and edged like swords unsheathed and violence sedated and numbness, syllables roll over each other and words and verses form tides, you write using big words, my english teacher encouraged us to use the smaller ones and i always wondered what the big words were for then, sitting idle; unused, unwanted, a solemn misplaced defect dictionaries all hinged and high on obscure artefact words no-one ever uses anymore gone out of fashion because people like us forgot them and let them fade into oblivion. but you, you know what they are maybe they are hard to hold but you hold them well maybe you are hard to hold

When I was a kid, people told me to save everything I wrote, and to NEVER throw it away. "You might need it someday," they said. To this day I am still not sure what they meant, but they were right. When trauma takes away your memories, you have to start reading about yourself in diaries, essays, and old poems. They begin to feel like history books. And while most of you won’t become amnesiacs, you will forget. 1. When you begin forgetting things, your brain will make up excuses for the gaps in your memory. You’d be surprised how good you are at not noticing the contradictions. In old notebooks, I read things about myself I

the trijan refrain, created by jan turner, is a fairly simple form. it consists of 3 9 line stanzas, all sharing the same beginning line. lines 7 and 8 of each stanza are a repeated refrain of the first four syllables/words of line 5 of the same stanza. the syllable count and rhyme scheme run as per below (this pattern, shown here once, is repeated for each of the 3 stanzas): 8 / A (same LINE to begin each stanza) 6 / B 8 / A 6 / B 8 / C 8 / C 4 / D (reapted first 4 syls/words from line 5) 4 / D (reapted first 4 syls/words from line 5) 8 / C here is an example: lurking trijan refrain the truth comfits our senses not; our gates a