Challenge: Write a prose poem. Keep it to drabble length (~100 words.) Pay attention to the flow and the musicality of the language, using the devices of alliteration, internal rhyme, repetition, etc. Subject can be anything that strikes your fancy. Read the examples for inspiration.
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Dedicated to Doug
I am writing this prose poem by the light of a flashlight and it's very dark in here. Sun Winked at me in the light of a flashlight, yet I still can't see so clear. So, I'm writing this prose poem by the light of a flashlight, singing, "Doug, your prompts I fear."
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The Surreal Circus.
Thank you submitting to Gathers Luminous Writers and Artists.
Hence the reason I don't always comment on poems.
Are you under the sheets? Are you inside of a dog? Your poem immediately sets a scene without literally telling us where you are. The repetition of "light of a flashlight" gives it a wry musicality. I love it.
My only criticism--let me say this first: it's based on my understanding of the concept, I'm telling you what would be my choice, it's a choice, it doesn't have to be your choice--here, clear, and fear feel like end-rhymes. Especially when you contrive the sentence structure to put fear at the end of its sentence. End rhymes call attention to themselves and impede the flow. Internal rhymes, on the other hand, add momentum and musicality.
A prose poem eschews the tools of
• line length (short lines, e.g., or regular line length)
• line breaks
• meter
• end rhymes
Doing so forces you to rely for poetic quality on one or more tools such as
• repetition
• internal rhyme
• alliteration
• economy
• tone
• richness of imagery
Thank you so much for taking a chance and playing SunWinks! I am well chuffed.