#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2503.21 — Happy World Poetry Day! Share your most poetic line.
I feel that prose benefits from rhythm and allusion if not meter, as does poetry. Words evoke feeling and meaning regardless of the form, and can come off as dead if poetic attributes are ignored or brushed off as frivolous.
Some of my writing is arguably lyrical, some evocative and metaphorical. To radically oversimplify the following excerpt, Rainy Days is the wizard professor of a university of magic. This is how a surprised male student sees her upon entering her office.
Well, she floated. As did a half dozen open tomes, three black notebooks, two colorful quills—with matching ink bottles, red and indigo—and one drink that lacked a container. The liquid sphere of chopped cherries, magenta water, and rock ice danced and bobbled and clinked—sporting a long silver metal straw that glimmered where poked within, perfectly and precisely angled toward expectant reddened lips. Rainy Days floated as if herself immersed in an unseen pool, her spine, arms, and legs slightly curved waifishly, for an instant merely a girl now a young woman laying a-drowse on her side, on her sleeping mat, fighting off a daydream. She glanced around a sheaf of blue-lined student papers darkened wetly by a summer squall of cramped cursive, briefly displaying her curious crystal blue eyes veiled through her faint golden halo. She grabbed the red quill. Around her, like a mostly invisible bonfire crackled—? What could you call the phenomenon? Energies and forces? Half-seen static discharges and regions of air reflected slightly, intermittently; they were ephemeral cirrus clouds suddenly luminously painted orange or blue or gold or pink, visible in that last gasp of dusk before slipping into the abyss of night.
—from Reluctant Moon.
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