These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Insanity. It occurred to me as I journaled this morning, that as I wrote the prompts for today, I was focused on the fear of losing one’s mind, going insane, but the fear of insanity may also include the fear of encountering someone else’sContinue reading “Insanity’s Reflection”
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Fear of Insanity
Welcome back for the nineteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through the fear of insanity. Insanity is defined as a severely disordered state of the mind. In the nineteenth century it became less literally used as meaning extreme folly or unreasonableness. Fear of insanity, is the fearContinue reading “Fear of Insanity”
Phobia’s Panic
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Intense Fear of Phobias. OctPoWriMo Phobia’s Panic Cascades Voices coming through the wallstoo muffled and quiet to understandlike invisible webs across doorwayssticking to our cheeks and lips start the silent pounding pulsecold sweats moist upon flushed skinand the cycle of slowly racing thoughtsof voices coming throughContinue reading “Phobia’s Panic”
Intense Fear of Phobias
Welcome back for the eighteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear, loss of autonomy, through the intense fear of phobias. Phobias are different than our regular fear response. The fear response is no longer from the stimulus, but from the fear of the stimulus. Phobias can become debilitating. There are asContinue reading “Intense Fear of Phobias”
Fearing Control and Loss of Control
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Restriction. OctPoWriMo Today’s Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to create kennings and use them in your poem. Kennings are compound expressions with metaphorical meaning, like “oar-steed” for ship, or “whale’s road” for sea. I think that hyperbole and kennings willContinue reading “Fearing Control and Loss of Control”
Fear of Control
Welcome back for the seventeenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of control. Fear of control could mean many things: fear of losing control of oneself, fear of losing control to another, fear of being controlled physically or mentally. What other fear of control can youContinue reading “Fear of Control”
Freeing Restrictions
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Restriction. OctPoWriMo Limited Restrictions This room is not the smallest roomThis wood chair is not the hardestI don’t know what I’m doing hereThe rules won’t be too restrictive It’s not the strangest rope I’ve feltNot the tightest knot ever tiedI’ll wriggle out eventuallyThe rulesContinue reading “Freeing Restrictions”
Fear of Restriction
Welcome back for the sixteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of restriction. Fear of restriction is a fear of being confined. This could be a fear of being bound, of small spaces, or even tight clothing. Rhetorical Device: Litotes Litotes is an ironic understatement inContinue reading “Fear of Restriction”
Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Paralysis. OctPoWriMo Paralysis She wears a tangy-sweet perfumethe orange blossom tree in springher voice a nightingale—unanimously accepted to bethe sweetest birdsong—sings a funeral dirgechanting: if only, if onlya flutter, flutter, flutter If I could speakI would tell herI’m here and I’m tryingI’m telling myContinue reading “Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis”
Fear of Paralysis
Welcome back for the fifteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of paralysis. Fear of paralysis is the fear of losing control of your body, but as I looked into it, I also found “fear paralysis” which is becoming paralyzed or frozen by fear. So thisContinue reading “Fear of Paralysis”
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