words I like to put together

I have a tendency to think of things at strange times.  Actually, I have a tendency to do this while I am driving. 

Writhing words wrench from my mind trailing signs of someone lost from sight.

You know, alliteration, assonance, and consonance.  Make for some fun sounds.  It feels like liquid when I say it out loud.  It also reminds me that I don't read enough poetry.  And what's worse, neither does 99% of the world.  I mean, yeah, we all listen to music, which is arguably a modern day substitute, but I really think we need to be forced to read more poetry.  Appreciate the music created by the words.  Understand the subtleties of each phrase.  Feel the rhythm, the truncation, the meter.  I think that is why I have such an affinity for hip hop.  It has so much more emphasis on the lyrics.  I mean real hip hop, not the top 20 autotuned bullshit.  I'm talking about Murs or Eli or even the late great Tupac.  You don't have to agree with what they say to appreciate the depth, the intricacy, and the lyrical mastery.  Kind of the way I feel when I read John Donne or Lord Byron.  I just never seem to like what they have to say, but I can't not like the way they say it.

I would like to have a tape recorder for my thoughts.  Sometimes I have trouble keeping up.  I imagine everyone has moments like that.  Where their mind races out of control, jumping from ledge to ledge, making no sense and perfect sense at the same time.  Like trying to remember a dream, you see what is happening, intrinsically understand it, but cannot wrap your mind around it or even recall what it was that you were thinking.  I've read that this sort of preternatural thought process, this thinking outside of the confines of your mind, is where creation comes from.  Where scientific breakthroughs happen.  Where art comes from.  Where any of your "outside of the box" thoughts come from.  And the amazing thing is, the harder you try, the less you succeed at it.  It's as if you have to train your mind to ignore itself.  To detach itself from the tethers of your brain and wander aimlessly while you try to stay just close enough to see what is going on but just far enough not to be noticed.  It seems to be a state of transcendence you hear about in Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and countless other religions.  Maybe preternatural is not correct.  It could be just the opposite.  It could be thought in its purest form.  The form that our mind is constantly trying to mimic but never quite can.  It can't mimic it because it is just a muscle doing what it has been trained to do.  Doing what it has seen in these rare moments of clarity.