The Prosimetrum Leg
Staring across the smoking, blackened landscape, it’s easy to believe it has always been thus. That’s a lie. Hell has stolen heaven and foisted this ruined corpse of a world on us. But we will have our day.
Last of the last,
Final remnant lingering.
Burnt flesh and choking ash,
Take us back to the beginning.
We scrape by with scraps of the old world, bits of detritus like shards of a stained glass window. Impossible to tell what story they might have told when you’re staring at a single piece. No matter. We can start a new story.
A world laid waste,
At the Beast’s cloven hoof,
Vengeance boiling, just a taste
We’ll deliver living proof.
The Hell Gate is their greatest advantage, but also the chink in their armor. Open, it belches hordes of infernal soldiers to do the Beast’s bidding, but if it should close? We stand a chance. But to seal that portal will require a sacrifice.
To seal that great gate,
That portal of orichalcum,
Requires the corruption of souls
Willingly consigned to damnation.
Instructions
Leg 25 – The Prosimetrum Leg: Write a microfiction in the form of a prosimetrum.
A prosimetrum (plural prosimetra) is a poetic composition which exploits a combination of prose (prosa) and verse (metrum); in particular, it is a text composed in alternating segments of prose and verse.
It really is self-explanatory. In a prosimetrum, there is a piece of prose followed by rhythmic poetry, and on and on. Of course, the poetry piece has to have something to do with the prose piece, and vice versa.
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