How Do You Write A Prose Poem?
The prose poem walks a thin line between poetry and prose. It became popular with poets like Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Robert Bly because it offered freedom from structure and form. Prose poetry does not use poetic meter, rhyme, line breaks or stanzas. But it does retain the repetition, language and imagery of poetry. Unlike prose, the prose poem is not as concerned with plot or narrative and its point of view is more reflective and turned inward. The prose poem can be a paragraph, three paragraphs, a page or many pages. Know that you won’t have to worry about rules of form. Rhyme schemes, meter, stanza and line breaks don’t apply. Consider the structure of prose. Prose poems take the shape of paragraphs and contain sentences and sentences fragments. Think about a time where you were struck by a particular image, how you came upon that image, how that image made you feel and what went through your mind when you saw it. Write about that experience. Pay particular attention to
