a poem written in prose rather than verse
a text where the verse density approaches that of regular metrical forms, while eschewing the anaphoric servitudes of prosody
an open form poem whose long lines seem like prose.
A hybrid of a poem and a short-short story. A prose work that has poetic characteristics such as vivid imagery and concentrated expression.
a poem which although printed as prose, usually of a paragraph or so in length, exploits linguistic resources such as compression, imagery and non-literal language that are characteristic of poetry.
Piece of writing which features the charged language normally associated with poetry but which does not feature stanzas or line breaks. An example of a prose poem is Season in Hell by Rimbaud.
