Challenge
Use your five senses.
So, this has been done repeatedly, but it's always a good technique to practice. The idea here is to use your five senses to describe an emotion. For example, what does madness smell like? What does happiness sound like, taste like, feel like to the touch? If you could take a photograph of loneliness, what would it look like? For example, a lady I knew once described confusion as tasting like Chinese food; one can't tell if it is sweet, sour, or salty.
Those are the rules. Use all your five senses to describe an emotion (no using an emotion to describe another emotion, though!) to the very best of your ability. Poetry, prose, short story, whichever one you prefer, it is all fair game. Tag me at the bottom of your entry, por favor.
Storm on my Mind
Sulfurous rainclouds in my mind:
I only wish there was a storm,
That hell or heaven would break loose
And pelt my skin with its slough.
But the clouds hold back,
Repressed storm swarms like a beehive without warning. Anxiety swirls
Clockwise, sounds like mourning.
The swirling wind dies and fog
Creeps, seeps into every pore as if
Sniffing for my heart and soul,
Mooring ships of joy lifeless in the port.
Once the fog settles, I struggle
To move: vision’s obscured, isolation
Ensues, cold breezes through me—
Swaths of mist taste like glue.
Depression ends, I never know when.
But one morning I wake and anxiety
Drains away, the fog dissipates.
@BricksandStones