PWoF 2016 - Topic 07 - Sept. 28

[rayheinrich]

Ouch. Still it's better than the alternative. I'm just back from an open mic night at the local pub. One other poet, lots of musicians. An 18 year old girl blew me away with her guitar playing - she works in the pub's kitchen. I know I'm going to be saying 'I knew her before she was famous'.

    That sounds so cool!  Something right out of my fantasies.

(I once went to an open mic at my local library.  There were no musicians, of course, just six wannabe poets.  
The first five read poems that were either cliché-riddled paeans to Christ or jingoistic praises of Amerika's majesty...
I didn't read my poem, I pretended I'd just come to listen. Texas.

Damn. Prose poem. I'll sleep on this overnight I think. Although last night's dream could maybe work ...

    Finally!  No excellent poem produced in under an hour to haunt me.
    - Schadenfreude Heinrich  

I am weeping.  ...

    Oh, just great, I no sooner get rid of merc than you step in to fill the gap.
My haunting returneth.

the rules of prose poetry confuse me, if I did this wrong...

This one's quite good... I love your extended/extensive metaphor.

Don't worry, prose poetry is a slippery beast, but it's easily caught.
That overview* I included a link for has some good examples if you want to look,
but I think you've got the hang of it.


*That overview of prose poetry can be found here.