11-12-2017, 03:09 PM
Hello nibbed. This is prose, not a prose poem.
A prose poem is still a poem: it needs to be about showing rather than telling.
It’s harder to write a prose poem because the cadence has to be managed without the device of line breaks.
A great example of a prose poem: https://earthpoemanthology.wordpress.com...dead-seal/
In particular look at the richness of imagery in the example above:
And the seal’s skin looks like an old over coat, scratched here and there — by sharp mussel shells maybe.
A prose poem is still a poem: it needs to be about showing rather than telling.
It’s harder to write a prose poem because the cadence has to be managed without the device of line breaks.
A great example of a prose poem: https://earthpoemanthology.wordpress.com...dead-seal/
In particular look at the richness of imagery in the example above:
And the seal’s skin looks like an old over coat, scratched here and there — by sharp mussel shells maybe.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe