Written for: dVerse Poets Pub - Prosery Monday- Some Prosery Cheer! (posted by Lillian) "PROSERY IS a piece of short prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into your prose piece. Your prose can be either flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction. YOU CAN NOT WRITE A POEM for this prompt. AND, your prose should be no longer than 144 words, sans title. It does not have to be exactly 144 words. But it can be no longer than 144 words. YOU MUST USE THE LINE I GIVE YOU BELOW, IN THE BODY OF YOUR PROSE. So for today’s prompt, somewhere in your 144 word or less piece of prose, you must include the line “Reading what I have just written, I now believe”. Remember, you may change the capitalization and punctuation. You may add words before and/or after the line, but the line itself must remain intact!" My poem begins under a cloud. Words are darkness in themselves as if each one was a different shade–charcoal, iron, steel, or ink. My guts spill out across the page. Yet, as I continue shaping-creping my poem into an ending I know will pull me so far down, I may never resurface–I gradually add a glimmer, a flicker of pearl-sized light to intrude. I skim the draft I have so far. In reading what I have just written, I now believe myself to be a dual-personality, fighting, struggling for a happy ending. https://dversepoets.com/
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This is an amazing self-reflective piece. “as I continue shaping-creping my poem” And how I love that word “Shaping-creping” ! It’s interesting isn’t it? Sometimes I put my pen to paper and write away. Then I stop, read what I’ve written and think, “Where did that come from?”
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Exactly. Thanks so much, Lillian.
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How exhausting it must be fighting to keep the dark side at bay. Hold fast to the glimmer.
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Exhausting is exactly the right word!
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The happy ending for every writer is not easy to know… and is it really needed?
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Probably not.
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