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HumanityAnamaleia
The short jerks of my heartbeat
under the tight skin of my ribs,
Jerking awake at midnight,
pulling open and closed,
ceaseless percussion

Chordata
Narrow, long pole
calcium bones, neurons
Sensory organs,
sharp bursts of pain,
Humanity by ~Synesthi

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Self-fulfilling ProphecyIt is with the end of the day,
in the quiet sector of the night,
that dreams will come, and let them pay
the beauty of their broken flight.

More oft than not their wings do break,
leaden hearts of infernal clay
filled up with plans that long to take,
but empty of will, the light of day.

Dreams are often dead before their birth,
dreams are feeble, not goals to make.
They’re doomed before their find their worth.
The heart is too afraid to break.

Self-fulfilling prophecy,
I fear you but you fear me.
I give my dreams to open sky,
you crush them before they can fly.

Self-fulfilling prophecy,
I’ll end you lest you end me.
My soul anSelf-fulfilling Prophecy by ~Synesthi

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Alone.I’ve been silent all day, so much so that my voice has turned to an eggshell which balances on my tongue.

At 7:30 I crouched on the stairs outside my English portable and watched the day start. For five minutes, I was alone, clutching fists of my shirt and stretching the fabric tight over myself. There were clouds and sky and geese and myself. Alone.

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I have to be fast because it’s the only kind of strong a girl of my size can be.

I’m a tall girl, but a small one. One that no one sees. One that doesn’t want to go to prom because the fabric of her dress would fall down from her shoulders or away from her chest. AAlone. by ~Synesthi

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I have hypokalemiaI have hypokalemia.

Hypokalemia means that I don’t have as much potassium as I ought to in my blood.

Hypokalemia isn’t something that you typically “have, it’s something you “are”. Like you “are” anemic. You have low iron. Anemic.

You “are” hypokalemic.

Don’t ask me why it’s that way. I don’t know anyone else with hypokalemia. I just know what other people, who do know, see fit to tell me.

I’m not hypokalemic like you’re supposed to be hypokalemic. I have it and it’s here to stay. Because a medication I take caused it. A medication I need. A mI have hypokalemia by ~Synesthi

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Dragons

by ~Synesthi, Aug 26, 2012, 8:09:46 PM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

When I was young,
I believed in
Dragons.

Swooping, flaming reptiles
With burning eyes
And tongues that could lick
Sand into
Glass.

Now that I am older,
I believe in
Calculus,
In the Periodic Table,
In equations and
The Scientific Method.

My mind is full of figures,
Facts and numbers in plain,
Blocky letters.

I keep my childhood in a box
Behind my winter jackets.

But at night,
Sometimes I dig them out,
Look them over with new eyes.

My swirly, frilly
Make-believe stories,
The reptiles that still flame
And claw about the box.

Then I bid them farewell
And pack them back up.

I feel sad, but not too much,
Because they are safe
And not far off.

In fact, I smile.

I will have so much
To give to my children.

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The Price of Dying“I want to be interred after I die,” Mr. Peters said. He made that clear to his family while he was still lucid, before old age and illness rendered him unintelligible. Seventy wasn’t that old, but he recognized the symptoms that were creeping up on his ailing body – the aches, the fatigue, the feeling of helplessness and despair. Despite his daughter’s attempts to assuage his concerns, he sensed his own mortality.
The worst part about dying, Mr. Peters thought, was what happened afterwards. Even since he was a small boy, he had been afraid of fire. He could never forget the scorching heat of the orange flames searing his skin, the dark billowing smoke entering his nostrils. The time that his house burned down, the fire almost took him with it. How ironic then, to escape the fire only to be fed into it after death.
So one day, he sat his son and daughter down after dinner. “I want to be buried whole,” he said, emphasizing the The Price of Dying by ~Clevina

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Whale Songs of the PacificListen, the girls swallowed by whales are the ones that grow up lucky.

Listen, no one will warn you about the little boys with the magpie eyes and the fists swinging splinters of glass. No one will warn you that their smiles are sweeter than their words are sweeter than their souls are sweeter than their intentions. No one will warn you of the sheer weight of the world.

Listen, sometimes girls are fragile. Sometimes girls are frothy. Sometimes girls let boys nuzzle "I love you"s into their necks and sometimes girls drink the wine of believing them.

Listen, sometimes the boys really are sweet, and little girls' tart puckered mouths can't taWhale Songs of the Pacific by ~Sora-Seraph

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Polishing VenusI wear a blue plastic retainer at night. It's painful, tight on my teeth, as if my mouth has outgrown it. I don't put it in often enough, so the shape of my jaw twists and changes, until I remember how much I despised braces and consent to slip it in, and I lie awake at night, loathing the imperfection of my teeth and the ache that pulses there as my mouth readjusts to the wires and plastic that force my jaw into the correct position.

I wear glasses too – ugly things, dark maroon on top, with a thin, squishy plastic wire on bottom instead of another rim. Not many people know I have them. When I was a kid, I had the rimless kind – sPolishing Venus by ~WildWolfMoon94

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April: Silvery-blue, streak-glitter sunlight.

by ~Synesthi, Apr 6, 2013, 10:11:35 PM
Journals / Personal

Hey everyone,

Sorry about the delay with this journal entry.

I don't have a lot to say this month.

I'm very sick. My hypokalemia is worse, which means my seizures are worse. We're trying to get them under control right now. My life is sort of divided into migraines and seizures. Outside of that, I just try to deal with my school and running responsibilities. I'm using most of my free time to try to sleep, but I'm trying to get a little bit of writing in. My potassium is getting a little more steady, so hopefully my hands will even out and it'll get easier. Typing is really hard, but writing is even worse.

I'm still stressed about school. IB exams are next month. My running is going great though, despite the hypokalemia really messing me up.

I hope you're all doing well. April is a pretty month with my synesthesia. It's blue with a transparent layer of silver over it. Like silver tissue paper. Enjoy April.

Best wishes,

~Synesthi

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I am a Synesthete (the term for someone who has synesthesia) and enjoy writing (prose and poetry), long-distance running, and playing music. My username is another (less formal) term for someone with synesthesia.

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~koalagirl2 57 minutes ago New member Student

Your poetry is amazing!!!

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Happy Birthday!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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Hope you have a lot of fun today!
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Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday!

~Clevina Apr 24, 2013 Writer

Thank you for the fave.

~Synesthi Apr 25, 2013

You're welcome! You really earned it! I loved your piece.

^NicSwaner Feb 19, 2013 Student Writer

Keep writing.

~Synesthi Mar 2, 2013

Thanks! I plan on it!

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