Short Fiction

In my recent Fiction Writing blog I discussed how poetry is and should be written like a story. I do mean style or word choice when I take this position, but rather the elements of opening, middle, and end and the painting of a picture that can stand on its own like a well written story. The closest fiction that a poem can be identified with is flash fiction. Flash fiction is a very very short story and the best description I have heard is imagine that you pass in front of an open window and hear a conversation. The entire story is from when you first heard the conversation until you walked too far away to hear it anymore.

A poem is the same conceptually speaking, It is a brief moment of time or a brief bridge crossing time and thought presented in picturesque words to describe the theme or thought. It draws on the emotions, the memories, and the imagination of the reader or listener. It is within this seed that the germ of the idea of the poet resides and is planted into the audiences mind to grow and change how that person thinks or sees their world.

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