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Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.
from the prose poem INNOCENCE — Jay Woodman

Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ... — Muse

Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse

Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse

They shut me up in Prose - / As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet - / Because they liked me "still" - — Emily Dickinson

Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ... — Muse

Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments) — Muse

The Inner Self
... What makes us who we are
should be glorified
personified
and sung unto the stars! — Muse

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers. — Kirby Wright

Ancient days of sorrow
ancient days of pain
-
heartaches of the past
slowly began to wane ...
(from gleaning granules) — Muse

Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale) — Muse

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever. — May Sarton

Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ... — Muse

Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ... — Muse

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. — Shannon L. Alder

Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ... — Muse

Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. — Hilary Mantel

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point. — Sakyong Mipham

hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch. — Ana Claudia Antunes

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. — Jean Burden

Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. — Mark Strand

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.

No love ever deserves to end. — Akif Kichloo

Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse

Sleeping Atlantis

Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

When a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. — Sybil Marshall

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam. — Jay Woodman

I ache not from need -
but from my heart's gluttony of you. — Muse

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! — Kenneth Koch

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. — Helen Vendler

A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen... — Muse

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art. — Paul Valery