Oh, The Horror!

pretty simple, short and sweet. speaks for itself (I hope). 7/11/09

there is a plague of broken bodies

for as far as eye can see

a wretched sea of wizened lives

deceased throughout these streets

 

and it is not the carnage strewn about

or their deaths that baffle me

but how these squandered souls

bereft of life

can walk

and talk

and breathe.

Reviews

[S.S.P.]

Poeticpiers, you're nice enough
and your love of rhyme I see
but I prefer the freer forms
found in prose-poetry

and i'm glad that you've found comfort
in the matching up of words
I do it too from time to time
but restrictions for the birds.


History Of Prose Poetry: (courtesy of Wikipedia)

As a specific form, prose poetry is generally assumed to have originated in 19th-century France.

At the time of the prose poem's emergence, French poetry was dominated by the Alexandrine, an extremely strict and demanding form that poets such as Aloysius Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire rebelled against. Further proponents of the prose poem included other French poets such as Arthur Rimbaud and St�phane Mallarm�.

The prose poem continued to be written in France and found profound expression, in the mid-20th century, in the prose poems of Francis Ponge.

... Modernist authors wrote prose poetry consistently, including Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson.

Then, for a while, prose poems died out, at least in English-until the early 1950s and '60s, when American poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, Robert Bly and James Wright experimented with the form. Simic won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his 1989 collection, The World Doesn't End ...

... Using figurative language to provoke thought, it invites a reader into unusual perspectives to question what is traditionally thought of ...

[spence]

This is great. I love what you're saying in this and relate to it everytime I'm dragged around a shopping centre, (and I do have to be dragged to endure such trauma)! The rythm and rhyme was very catchy, though I stuttered slightly at the last because of the way the tempo had formed in my head. I'd not normally do this, but I think this poem has so much potential that I'm going out on a limb! Do you think the poem would benefit from taking the word 'it's' from the second last line and adding, 'and talk' in the last so it reads 'but how these squandered souls, bereft of life, can walk and talk and breathe''? Just a thought based on how i interpreted the rythm- no offence meant- it's going in my faves anyway, take care, spence

[Dana Shefelbine]

creepy,
i like it.

[Drachke Thoth]

Ewww. That was really good.

-Thoth

[Legion]

This was fabulous. Love the ending. Simply loved it. "All you zombies hide your faces....".

I, too, enjoy the unmetered and unrhymed.
Not each piece nor each time.
A message with substance
That feeds sustenance
Designed for enlightenment
Or pure devilishment
I find an enjoyable read
So, of rules and formats, take no heed.
Indeed. Indeed. Indeed! :)

[J Carly]

I think of your style as a mustang running wild and free. Raw power and beauty with a rhythm all its own. Another great write, my friend. ;)

[S.S.P.]

.

[Passingdaze]

Ummm...Very well written.

[Poeticpiers]

Your rhymer does not satisfy the rules
for old fashioned guys like me
Although you think that we are fools
we recognise good poetry
Without meter it's only prose
however clever in content
Which makes no difference I suppose
Insulting you not my intent.
I much prefer formality
to any free verse which I see.
I read but do not understand
I dont dismiss it out of hand
Why you must call prose poetry
when without meter it cant be