Poetry and Prose: A Poetry Blog
Through Poetry
“Oh, there isn’t any, when you put it that way,” gasped Anne, rather as if somebody had thrown cold water over her. “I suppose that’s how it looks in prose. But it’s very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it’s nicer…” Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed…”to look at it through poetry.”
Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery
A blog on Poetry and Prose.
Here is looking at it all
through poetry, through rhyme
and the shine of unshed tears and
unsaid words, birds of fleeting emotions flitting by, just as alive
as the everpresent eagle.
For words might lie, shy away from reality, try, try harder
words might cry tears of desperate ink,
try again
but words never die.
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How To Write—A Contrary Guide
Grammar. Syntax. Semantics. Don’t put an a before an e, unless the e is followed by something like –ulogy . Don’t put too many adverbs. Don’t start the sentence with and or but. Make your character believable. Make your poem rhyme. So many rules to tell us how to write.…
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20 Bitter(Sweet) October Poetry Prompts
Welcome to our October Poetry Prompts page where we bring to you beautiful and original ideas about the feelings of Octobers for you to create some art on! October is a month of change. And nostalgia. Summer’s changing into winter. You’re thinking back to last year and remembering what kept…
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How to Not be Overwhelmed? Lessons from ‘Jane Eyre’
The Literature Lesson from Jane Eyre There’s a scene early on in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë where the eponymous character Jane has been humiliated by the head of the school in which she has been sent and he basically calls her a liar in front of all her classmates…
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Romanticism: Beginnings and A Glimpse of Eternity
I wrote a post about going back to romanticism recently. The ways of the world definitely make me, a very ordinary 19-year-old student in English Literature, want to go back to the age of Romanticism where the poets and the artists ruled and there was no one who could copy…
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“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.” -William Blake Who Are The Tigers of Wrath…? Wild, untamed energy and rage ends up creating more impact than the rigid structures of reason, conformity, training. William Blake’s famous proverb from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell states complex…
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“The Idea of Order at Key West”, Poem by Wallace Stevens
If you make a song out of the sound of waves, which of them is stronger? Wallace Stevens was a modernist poet who wrote The Idea of Order at Key West, a poem about a woman singing at the seaside, as the speaker, with his friend, watches, and finds something…
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Poems About September: The First Breeze of Autumn Is Here
The first breeze of Autumn…it’s here now. The leaves turning orange as summer waves goodbye to us. Many writers, poets, artists have tried to re-create the September they saw onto the paper or canvas in front of them. I’m just trying to re-create it too. On your phone screen. Let’s…
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How to Live in the Now? a Journaling Prompt
In this weird little rant, I write about how to live in the now. I also suggest you some journaling prompts to help you find yourself. I went from worrying constantly about the future of being so laser-focused on the present moment in life that nothing else seemed to matter…
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Poems About Rain—13 Heartfelt Works By Classic Poets
Have you ever looked out the window at a pouring sky and found absolution? The leaves turn unimaginably bright, the warm scent of fresh soil, the cool breeze of wandering clouds—it all seems otherworldly on a rainy day. There is peace in this scene, there is melancholy, there is joy…
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Poems About Finding Yourself: How I Discovered Myself in These Verses
Do you know yourself? Have you found yourself? Obviously, there are moments in ordinary days when out of nowhere we begin feeling lost, disconnected from our own reality. Read some highly introspective poems about finding yourself below, verses that speak to the soul with courage, convince us to come out…
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Embracing the Summer Aesthetic Vibes: Poems and Prompts
We’re halfway into the year and halfway into summer! I recently wrote a post 31 Poems about Summer to Read this July, and am honestly stunned by how people are loving it! That has got me to believe that everyone loves summer—its warm days, youth, beauty, freedom, luxury and wanderlust.…
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Magical Poems about Growing Up
Magical Poems About Growing Up and Growing Older. Growing up is that one bit that doesn’t ever change in our lives. When we’re five, we’re scared of growing up. When we’re fifty, we’re scared of growing old. Somewhere along, the feeling gets lost in the haze of it, actually. You…
