. “PROS-ETRY”

© Copyright 2007 by Douglas Perron

Poetry of old,

Was sometimes bold,

When cleverly told,

With words precious gold,

And rhyming fun to mold.

Then something happened to wit and skill,

Meter teetered,

And rhyming became pedantic old-school drivel,

When prose barged in to make story dominate form.

Modern poetry became micro short story,

That you write by making a pattern on your paper,

Then you send your “Pros-etry,”

To The New Yorker and such.

If it is a nice

micro short

...................... story . . with

.................... a pretty pattern,

................ to woo, it is printed

.................... as a poem and

....................... readers will

.......................... love it

............................. too.

But prose is not a poem,

No matter what its (no, not “form”)

...arrangement

on ..........a ...............page.

Poetry bon mots in form,

At times bring heart to warm,

Or tears to soul of cold,

As some morose of old,

But speak in meter charm,

With rhyme's tickling 'marm.

Avant-garde editor,

Sleepy lexicographer, too,

Self-proclaimed poet-or,

And reader without a clue.

If you see micro short

....story in a form

.........such as .........this,

.............then please call it

what?

.......... it is: “Pros-etry,”

...not ...a ...poem!

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Updated November 6, 2007. by Douglas Perron.