Category: Creative Writing

Hidden Meaning

3/16/2025

the depth of word, phrases and sentences

The pages we stare into deepens passed the very words on the page, like passing through a glass layer that holds the words and entering into the abyss of their world in which they create. The words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs hold the depths of their meaning in their infinite combinations.

Being sucked into the bowels of the pages where the mind and the words work together to show the vibrant colours, vast environments, elaborate relationships, narrow darknesses, and devastating emotions.

Holding the entirety of the universe between their pages, books are one of the most powerful things in the world, honing language and exploiting imagination; the powers of our minds. Thinking of our heads and the brain within them, we know that is not all that there is.

Another world, like a fourth dimension as a tesseract lies, waiting for our wandering. Within the three dimensions, perhaps there is a fourth like zooming in, disappearing and gaining the ability to travel anywhere. As we read we travel to wherever the author wishes to take us. Our minds capable to keep up in flight.

“Reading poetry”, for example, “allows one to see into the soul of another person, see what is weighing on their minds and on their hearts…” (Kim Barkley. Writer’s Digest). These normal everyday words come together to hold deep and intimate meaning only found if dug through and cared for.

The ground crests and folds like the sea. Soft and rough resembling the life we are guaranteed.
The forest in night, skeleton keys make. Seeking to claw heaven’s vault as we pass the nightscape.
Millions of eyes that glare down from the dome. A cloud of witness survey us in their previous home.
Seeming to show a hidden meaning beyond the veil of this world. Reality convinces of the spectacle of the grained and pearled.

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Garden of Eden

3/6/2025

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I have seen the Garden,
That which no child has seen,
Colours shown full and satisfied in.
I passed the tree of life,
The mightiest and splendid.

Allowed to enter by the cherub,
to see the dead tree,
Formerly of contrast but now just a stub.
A shadow as dark as that valley,
burned like Sheol –
Now a different contrast to all it was among.
I spoke to the cherub, asking,
What happened to the tree?
That which brought demise?
It was burned by the teacher,
who taught to be wise.

Those who came before brought death,
Defying the sequence of breath,
but the teacher rid the world of it.
satisfying man’s debt,
Now all may nurse from her breast.

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A Thousand Words (Creative)

3/6/2025

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But a single word can draw a picture. In creative writing, we use bigger more complicated words to draw open-ended pictures. One word can then draw a picture worth a thousand words. So which is more, a picture or a word that draws a picture?

We use words to describe, tell stories and even think. Imagine yourself in an art studio examining a painting. A thousand words can come to mind; what it looks like, what it makes you feel, and your interpretation of its meaning. The same thing can happen given a single word that means something to you.

Take the word Kenopsia. It may not mean anything to you now, but it describes the atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now desolate.

Now that you have the description, you have a picture of it’s meaning in your mind. Some will think of a market square at the center of town busy with citizens buying and selling, window shopping and fine dining, then at night the eerie quietness to contrast.

Another may think of a similar square then with something more tragic and terrible where the town’s people have been vacated or extinct. Or you may think of a closed mall or amusement park, a full house or the streets of New York.

These images still don’t show the emotion one has towards the scene but if the reader knows the word, the author is giving it to let the reader draw their own picture connected to their emotions along with all that has gone on in the story thus far. That is why writers don’t want to be too descriptive but use poetic language to draw a more vivid picture for the reader, that will inevitable be different in every reader’s mind.

This is why books are generally better than movies, they use words to describe and the reader does the image making. This creates a more personal connection, the writer highjacks your mind to use your imagination to write their story instead of an artist creating the image and you having to do the interpretation.

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