Hi Lisa!

I am also a big fan of poetic prose. I'm glad that you find the blog helpful!

I love when it when the prose "sings."

Hi Alicia!
If you ever run across the poetry book you mentioned, please let us know the title. There are so many different types of poems as well as different elements of poetry that can be use in prose.
Balance in all things.
Congratulations on your homeschooling. All the way through to college ready is a huge deal.

Hi Lynette!
I need to use more poetic elements in my writing, and plan to use those exercises as well.
I'm happy that you can use them.

Thank you, Denise!
I'm glad you find them useful.

That's awesome! I'm glad that the post is useful, and in an unexpected way.

I homeschooled three kids - all the way to college-ready - and one of our literature references (wish I could remember the name!) was a book on poetry, with chapters on each of the techniques poets have used - I learned as much as the kids did!

Once you are alerted to something's existence, you start noticing it everywhere. I don't write much poetry now - I'm a mainstream novelist and my books tend to run long - but I like to put a few quotations/poems at the beginnings of chapters (as one of my mentors, Dorothy L. Sayers did).

Often I can find a biblical reference, or a Shakespeare or other playwright quote, or know of a poem - and providing the epigraphs is easy.

But when there's something I want in that slot, for that chapter, and I can't find it, I will write a haiku, or what purports to be a section of an epic poem, to hit the exact right note.

Here's one which may end up in the third volume, as the chaos begins:

The glass egg shatters.
No peace in the universe.
God can't mend it.
Tahiro Mizuki; trans. by R. Heath

[PS The poet and the translator are both fictional]

As long as my main aim, that everything serve the STORY, is accomplished, I have a little room to play. It's one of the joys of writing.