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Synesthesia Overload

Prompt ▼

Prompt Card: What do memories taste like?

Word Cards: Ripple, Slink (You only need to use ONE of the word cards)

Senses are overwhelmed, short-circuits firing
Mixing of signals becoming much graver
Abnormal cortex in need of rewiring

Deafening colors and audible flavors
Smell of the new mown grass cubic and yellow
Grip on reality starting to waver

Music in A-minor feels like warm jello
Words with the letter 'k' instigate sneezing
Pastrami sandwiches sound like a cello

Sleep brings no respite, no waning, no easing
Sanity crumbling, you struggle and grapple
Close your eyes, take deep breaths, think something pleasing

Salt sunbeams, shining through whistling trees, dapple
Memories ripple by, tasting of apple


Form: "Terza Rima Sonnet"  with dactylic quadrameter (or possibly tetrameter) catalectic metre (Tum ti ti tum ti ti tum ti ti tum ti )
Lines: 14

Note ▼

Since I decided to use 'jello' as a rhyme—a word that is not used in 'British English' (we call it 'jelly')—I decided to use American spelling throughout, hence 'color' and 'flavor'. Normal service (if there is such a thing) will probably be resumed next week.