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    Default Prose poems

    Hi everyone! New member here and loving the community! The poetry forums are fantastic, and I wanted to submit some of my own work inspired by The Dark Tower.

    I thought it might be interesting to have a place for something in-between poetry and fiction, something for shorter pieces that I'm calling, for the moment, prose poetry. I'll post an example of my own, and I'd love to see what other people are working on!

    Moderators feel free (I know, like you need me to say it!) to merge this thread into another, existing one. I just wasn't sure where to put it, of if a new thread was needed at all.

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    On the same note, might be interesting to talk about what parts of Dark Tower have inspired what prose poems?

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    deleted by me (author). Old memories. Hope it's okay RF/Jean/Brice et al?
    Last edited by Jack Mort; 06-20-2014 at 05:38 PM.

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    this thread might be moved to I, Gan

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    Yes, I believe Jerome directed him there after I directed him here. My mistake!
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    Thanks, guys! I sort of figured the thread was sort of right but kinda not!

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    My fault entirely!
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    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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    My last piece is an attempt to get at something hard to describe. SK would have said it far better, but this one is, again, the best way I know to respond to a certain work:

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    Poem excised by me!
    Last edited by Jack Mort; 06-20-2014 at 05:37 PM. Reason: old old poems bad memories :( Hope it's okay to delete?

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    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
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    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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