New Age Phoenix

[DemonDelight]

As the sun fades I rise from the ashes.
The pain ebbs away and my heart beats.
Life slowly flows through me and I'm free,
Breaking away from insufferable mediocrity.

I'm invincible in the dark of night.
The stars speak to me and map out my path.
The world is quiet and I can finally listen.
I smile and laugh until my world goes dark.

As a new day forms my life ends again.
I crash, burn, and crumble under the weight.
My fears and hate return and my pain comes for me.
In slow agony I cry out, hoping, praying someone is listening.

I try so hard to run away from my own self.
My strength fades so quickly in the harsh light of day.
My skin burns and rots away, leaving a mangled and deformed monster.
An abomination to society, so I keep hidden while burning in my despair.

If the day is dark and a storm rages on
I am saved from my burning, ritualistic death.
For that day I can listen to the world while it's awake.
I can pretend I'm normal, I can love myself like I used to.

[Janus]

Goddamn DD.....That is so dark..........But I understand it....Truly

[Grm]

Nice words DD, but it is technically prose rather than poetry.

[DemonDelight]

Well, Grm, prose or not, we don't exactly have a section for that now do we?

[Grm]

But we do DD, its called the story section.

[DemonDelight]

Not all poetry has to rhyme

[Partner]

It's poetry.

[insatiable]

In general terms, prose is the everyday language used by most speakers of a language. It is the language of this answer, and of the newspaper articles you read this morning. It is the language of most fiction, non-fiction, history and biography. You can see that the term is extremely broad and covers a great many different kinds of writing.

Poetry is the use of many different elements of language to convey concepts and feelings in a way that is different from the frank relating of information. These elements include the sounds and rhythms of words and of groups of words. The rhythmic pattern of language is called prosody [not to be confused with the word prose, and not to be confused with the classic and over-worked forms like iambic pentameter]. Some poetry has strong structural components and some is free from obvious structural constraint. Because poets tend to hear and respond to the sounds, rhythms, cadence and structure of language, it has a great deal in common with music.

Sometimes the distinction between prose and poetry is difficult to draw. You might say that poetry is more symbolic or that it makes more use of imagery, but all language is metaphorical and therefor symbolic in nature. The distinction probably does not matter, as long as the writer has something to say that you are willing to hear.

For source and more detail description: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_poetry_and_prose

[Malsexie]

Nice words DD, but it is technically prose rather than poetry.

Poetry of this type is called, technically, free-verse and is poetry. Poetry does not need to rhyme but when it does it is rhyming poetry. There is also haiku, a Japanese form of poetry which also doesn't need to rhyme so your statement doesn't hold to the technicality of poetry at all . I have written poetry for 50 years and although I have written and had reams of the stuff published over the years much of it did not rhyme but was published as poetry.

[DemonDelight]

Janus, Partner, Malsexie, thank you guys for your support, I appreciate your kind words.

Grm, Insatiable I know perfectly well what a prose is. Had I written this in paragraph form, absolutely it would be a prose, but I didn't. I wrote this in a poetry format. This is an expression of how I feel in a poetic sense. Thanks for the criticism, it helps me strengthen my talents.

[Partner]

While we're on the tangent, my thought is that the line between poetry and prose is really such a wide grey area that you often have to go back to the author's intent to decide whether or not to call something poetry.  Somebody else could have written that with no regard to the words themselves as an art form, called it prose, and I would have been fine with that.  But since the author invested into the word play and structure, and wants to call it poetry, that's where I side.

And honestly, I'm happy it didn't rhyme.  NTTAWWT, but rhyming poetry can get old if that's all you ever see.

Kind of going off-topic a bit, but what the hell.  That's what I do.

[Janus]

Partner, you are a class act man.....Class act indeed......

Janus

[Partner]

Partner, you are a class act man.....Class act indeed......

Janus

Thanks.  I really appreciate that.

[insatiable]

Thanks for the criticism, it helps me strengthen my talents.

What makes you think I was criticising you. If anything, the definition I copy pasted above, backs you up. Read the last part of the copy-pasta above.

[DemonDelight]

Thanks for the criticism, it helps me strengthen my talents.

What makes you think I was criticising you. If anything, the definition I copy pasted above, backs you up. Read the last part of the copy-pasta above.

I do apologize, I honestly thought I had read all of it, but apparently I missed that last part. Too quick with my posting, but that was also more geared towards Grm than you.

I will definitely be more careful and more patient when I post.

[Fish]

 

I believe it is poetry, and you wrote it as poetry,
Perhaps those are the wax wings,
We approach the sun with,
Before a fall.

If you shout out your feelings to me, I'll listen,
Perhaps that was the design,
From the very beginning.
I hear your call.