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Giving Words

Words and Verse

-Prose-

Prose [Lat. prosa oratio=straightforward, or direct, speech]
meaningful and grammatical written or spoken language that does not utilize the metrical structure, word transposition, or rhyme characteristic of poetry or verse; it is, however, raised above the level of lifeless composition or commonplace conversation by the use of balance, rhythm, repetition, and antithesis. In literature, prose is the usual mode of expression in such forms as the novel, short story, essay, letter (epistle), history, biography, sermon, and oration. ~Answers.com

(My Example of a Prose)
Worn ...she was haggard taking a seat on the empty bench. There wouldn't be a bus by here again tonight. Swaying back and forth to the music that played in her mind. It mattered not if anyone approached or was near by watching, all that mattered to her was gone. There was nothing but the silence and a shell once called a body. Her gaunt, wrinkled fingers moved in the air, her boney wrists delicately floating, moving along the invisible keys. The old worn coat did its job in breaking the wind tonight but off with it and quickly removing the ribbon that held her long grey hair in place. Not another soul would hear what was making her stand, causing her to move, and twirl in her drawn, dingy yellow chiffon, with her messy hair tangling around her neck. She heard the sorrow that homed itself within. On she danced with tired, scuffed shoes and torn nylons rolled to her ankles. There was not a smile, there was not charm, she simply moved to be moving, she moved to forget until her mind was as blank as the picture being created with the non existing canvas, never really appearing, the visions, the notes simply flurried away. Copyrighted 2005 Cynthia E. Jones

My thoughts are that Prose is very different from Free Verse or Free Form. A Free Verse poem will still have some sort of structure and dynamic that will give the reader the idea they have been presented a poem. A prose may be poetically written without any structure, style or form in mind.

More thoughts ...Could it be possible the 'rules' are actually coming from the artist, or the artist is not writing with rules. This is often how I write before I even realize it and maybe most of my poems would be considered free verse. I do disagree with many writers that have stated too many 'poets' today are really writing prose and calling it a poem. A poem or poetry is just that and exactly what we make of it or intend it to be. I could certainly have a thought and write it poetically with only two simple lines. If it does not meet the rules of writing, is it not a poem to me?

What is art? I have always thought art is something that may strike controversy. If it has our attention and we are giving it our thought, perhaps it has done it's job, be it a poem or prose, it is something descriptive and artistically written.

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