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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Posey
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you move

you move and you move me second hand or minute hand and hour hand; you move me we could be paints

oilssuns shadows at the brim they spill they mix they never touch we spread across a canvasclock the ingredients of us

space guts

bone stuff

skin stretch mechanical

movements; and the moments that tick away in between they collide they intertwine they never touch we spread across you move and i move you move and

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Riley_45
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Subway Windows

When I was a kid I thought that looking into the subway windows would let me see into the future. If I focussed on the flashing lights and lines as we passed, emersed myself in the clacking of the tracks, squeaking of doors, hum of light conversation, maybe I would be able to glimpse a jump in time.

Spoiler alert, I didn’t see the future.

But the windows never lost their appeal. The rhythm of the individual cars and the way they plunge into tunnels with nothing but streaking white lights on either side puts me into a haze. The faint reflection of passengers in the window mixed with the tunnel that abruptly disappears when we go outside makes it more hypnotizing. Regardless of my age, the windows will always have a certain magic.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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HopeMarie
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...isn’t it called...

.

.

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Isn't this called...

Wonder ?

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.

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I am always in wonder

and awe

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because, as someone much wiser than me once noted:

all the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

There is too much beauty and intricacy in this world

not to wonder at it all.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Clarity
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Ambedo

Water cascading down the window

Leaving small rivets behind.

The way the sun glints on the dew.

The grass smells like summer, freshly cut.

Thunder screams in the distance, writhing under its everlasting chains.

Lightning teases it, dancing freely just out of its reach.

The bright blue birds dash left and right, singing in panic.

Darkness bends unto the weight of it all, groaning as it breaks loose.

The rain picks up, turning into a waterfall on my window.

Comfort surrounds me as I pull the blanket tighter around my shaking shoulders.

Thunder sounds its war call.

The end is drawing near.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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GaryEnglish
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Magnify

The raisin, like a whole landscape of ridges and valleys,

The smell like an orchard on the edge of your nose.

Powered water, pinprick hot, ricochets off your body; showered water.

Echo. Echo. Echo. Each step bouncing off the hall’s walls

As you stride through the atrium.

Thud-dump-thud-dump-thud-dump, hear your heart pumping faster

As your breath whooshes through your lungs like a metro train not stopping.

See the web, in the corner, hanging droplets clinging on

Like a chandelier of water suspended on a silken thread.

Deep inside, the answers have been waiting there for you,

Yet you ignored them; immersed outside yourself.

Look within; the answers lie within.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.

Whales were out of waving distance

Eva stepped out of her garden gate onto the beach with sand like cement. Blades of grass stuck up like zoomed-in hair follicles. Whales were out of waving distance.

The sky was peat and the problem she'd left on her desk, easily solved if she'd been halfway competent, braced her mouth into a smile.

This was a terrible place. You just walked and walked without anything changing, except that when you looked back, the gate was behind rocky walls and the idea of turning back was as exasperating as keeping going.

Why didn't she have a dog? She should have had a dog. She had on the wrong shoes.

She broke into the bank of seaweed that was choking the water back. Her foot crunched over a crust of tiny white seashells hidden in the stems, their perfect shapes coated in grains of grey sand. She reached down to touch them, straining for the relief of beauty, and got cold grit under old leaves.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
ashley04
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Colours in my Music

My hands were cold, but now inside my pockets, they become warmer. Though my face is still numb. The late evening sky makes it easy to focus on the things I feel. Like the heavier colours, blue, green, and red, skirting around my feet. They jump up with my steps and weave between my legs. The lighter colours like yellow, and pink float off of me and my dog in mists that trail behind us. Air pulses to the beat of my music and I feel excited happiness alive in my chest. These are the colours of my emotions that accompany my music, and as my happiness swells so do the colours to wash my town and make it feel like home.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
Emilyz
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My life

My life is described as ambedo

I live in a trance that blinds me to the horrors of reality

I close my eyes for a moment and just let my worries slip away

As I see the things around me differently:

The one dimmer star in the sky full of brighter ones

The flickering lights on the horizon out my bedroom window

I live in an ambedo state that I never wake up from

The world around me will forever spin but I notice the dying flower in the field of newly bloomed ones

This feeling is a rare one for others, but is my whole life

So when you get this feeling, cherish it

And don't forget to look at the universe in a new light

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.
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Rlj
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Air rushes through my lungs as I yawn.

Back muscles sting from sitting so long.

Broken trance. Heavy laptop. Stiff neck.

A woman drops her books, waking me.

I follow her movements as she leaves.

Stretching, I go back to my studies.

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Emotion: Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the 18th of January, I'll be starting Nodus Tollens as my Emotion challenge.

Clouds

Sitting on a hill covered in a fine morning dew, my neck cranes towards the sky.

Clouds overhead, they twist and turn. Some sprout faces while others merge into new creatures. A dog. Then, an elephant.

They are perpetually amorphous.

They make me ponder. Maybe we can learn from these clouds.

Sometimes I think too much.

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