Prose poem exercises
Why use lines? Give a prose poem a shot, see if the different aesthetic has you read, or punctuate your poems differently, without leaning on any rhyming or enjambment.
Write a piece about a specific kind of plant. Find one with a cool defensive system, or that grows somewhere special. Research it. Then take three or so of those details that can be described in a simile for a human action, and describe them so that the plants definitely resemble humans.
Write a listing prose poem, that has a pattern of two items, then a third item with either a condition, or an explanation or follow up. Repeat the pattern as many times as you feel it necessary.
Write a prose poem that focuses on colors, and gives meaning to those colors through individual images.
December 30th, 2007 at 6:01 am
great exercises…thanks…