#WritingPrompt: Are there experiences you have trouble verbalizing into words?

Mahjong Sounds

a poem and a writing challenge!

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
The Brain is a Noodle
2 min readJan 31, 2022

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Photo by Albert Hu on Unsplash

The click
of mahjong tiles,
it reverberates.

That finger reveal,
that twist of wrist action
when you call to
“eat porridge”.

ah,
words I don’t even have
to communicate
what’s in my brain.

Perhaps this is why
I specifically remember images
and sensory experiences
of events rather than
verbalize them
into
specific
words.

#WritingPrompt: Are there experiences you have trouble verbalizing into words?

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Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
The Brain is a Noodle

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