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Question: Have you ever been truly "Alone"!? (Prose or Poetry!?)!?
Alone

Icicles strung outside
the window sills;
yesterdays warm rain
suddenly transformed
into frozen icy traps
hidden beneath mountains
of hardened snow!.

Bone marrow cold it was,
the coldest climate
I'd ever experienced!.
!.!.!.and I'd survived
many a rough winter,
but this time should
have been different;
for I was inside,
body adjacent to fireplace;
yet heat was non-existent,
as raging fire climbed
above its burning embers!.

!.!.!. and no matter
how I bundled myself
in cotton or wool;
I was still juxtaposed
to an inner frozen chill!.

That's what being alone
and unloved does you see;
my coldest winter
has arrived on the icy clouds
of wind driven disparity,
where the sun
neither rises or sets,
nor is there warmth or light,
for I am blinded,
engulfed in darkness!.

My only wish,
someone
hold
me!.

PROSE: the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing b: a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech

POETRY: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythmWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Beautifully written!.You are in a slump you need to dump!.I've been there!.Forgot how it felt,you brought back memories, I thought I had forgotten!.I guess we never really forget the rotten times in our lives or the really great times!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It has some aspects of poetry, but I would have to argue that this is prose, because it's so sporadic!. I've seen alternating rhythms before but this one is very off, not iambic, or dactylic!.!. hmm!. it's definitely free verse, but even free verse has more reason than this one!. Don't get me wrong it's beautiful, but I would say that it leans more towards prose!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Bleakness painted well here!. The coldness in a soul unloved is truly the extreme in cold!. Now enough of depressed, go write a poem about E Harmony! Wait!.!.!.!.that might be depressing too! Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wow, this blows me away!. It is definitely poetry!.I is also full of vision and deep feeling!. I got chills reading it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

a little bit of both depending on how you look at it Www@QuestionHome@Com