Show Me Your Prose!

I’ve caught the unofficial challenge bug again, and I have a lot of devious ideas (like my Cthulu’s Challenge: poetry in pig latin, but I’ll probably save that one for next Christmas or some other time when the sweetness gets a bit too cloying for my tastes.

Notice that I forgot to close the parentheses. Now I have to air condition the whole paragraph.

So, what does that harlot Harper have in store here? Let’s have a prose poem contest. Best or worst day of your life.

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Do you really want to write a love poem for someone, but it just falls flat when you try to make it rhyme? In a prose poem, throw that out of your mind and focus on the specifics, the sensory things, specific smells, sounds, textures, etc. that you love. At the very worst, you end up with some great notes resonating in your mind when you start obsessing with those end-rhymes everyone loves so much, and you end up rhyming better words

Dazzle me with your language and linguistics, but please do not plague me with cheap end rhyme here; consider these your notes for things to rhyme about --if you're going to rhyme here, you have to sneak it in, like vodka or lsd to a morning pep rally. I mean it better be worth getting caught over, dressed down in front of the class like it's 1983, silent lunch, no recess, all that jazz (avoidance of cheap end rhyme is specifically why I want prose). If it end rhymes, you'll have to defend it in front of the class, who will vote and bribe me to sway my opinion as to whether or not each individual rhymer (not rhyme: you know who you are, I see you whispering and giggling in the corner. Share the joke with the class; we all like to laugh) has offended meaning with noise.

I’ll send everyone who participates an autographed digital picture of my favorite rock and the winner will receive a virtual trip to the Maldives, all expenses paid. Tempting, no?

Please put a link to my challenge somewhere in your entry, any community you like, and drop a link to your entry in the comments. After February 21, I take ten points off per calendar day. On Valentines Day, I'll post a list of great love quotes and letter links.(This turned out to be a lie.) Leave comments of who your favorite greats are, and I'll find you some off-the beaten track poems to couple with your own prose list, archive here to resonate for a year, and write a great love poem next year on the fly if you panic.

Hmmm, people aren’t as impressed with the idea of a rock that can sign its name as anticipated. I also have more modest (and more risque) photos of my darling lapis. Perhaps another mystery prize is in order.