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W3 Prompt #180: Wea’ve Written Weekly

W3 Prompt #180: Wea’ve Written Weekly
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Reena’s prompt guidelines

This week, we explore the interplay between prose and poetry. Use one or both of these images as your inspiration — a blindfolded Lady Justice whose scales are tipped by money or a crumbling courthouse.

I believe I have chosen Versiprose

My Opinion Matters Sometimes

And so the scales of justice tip
Bringing with it papers full
Of conditions and compromises
Each of them a bit of bull

But who are we to pick each one
As right on or as wrong can be
There is a higher power here
As someone in their right mind can see

Some say justice has its use
While others think its all a joke
Personally I keep my opinion to myself
Its safer if I never spoke

Some say there is justice in this world but it is all based on who picks the individuals to deem what is right or wrong. We may agree or agree to disagree but there will always be a higher power that gets to say which is the way to go. This is why I keep my mouth closed and my ears open. It is one thing to listen and learn and another to listen and be complyingly ignorant. 

©2025 CBialczak

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Write in either Prosimetrum or Versiprose form: both combine alternating passages of prose and verse.

  • If the prose dominates, it’s Prosimetrum.
  • If the poetry dominates, it’s Versiprose.

Find details on the format here.

For an additional challenge, ensure that your poem includes at least three and no more than twelve lines of verse. Prose sections may be any length. The poetry may be free verse or syllabic, or a mix of both.

For reference, here’s an excerpt from La Vita Nuova by Dante (translated):

Prose:

After my birth, the star of Venus had twice returned to the same point… She appeared dressed in subdued crimson, modest and dignified.

Verse:

Love and the gentle heart are one and same
As the wise man in his verse has said,
And each without the other finds no home,
Just as the soul within the body’s frame.

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  8. 💬 This prompt was a masterclass in blending form and message. The imagery of Lady Justice blindfolded and bribed, paired with the crumbling courthouse, struck a chord. Bialczak’s choice of Perispores was especially powerful—the rhythm of the verse gave weight to the prose’s quiet resignation. That final reflection, about listening versus complyingly ignorant silence, was haunting. It made me pause and ask: am I truly listening, or just nodding along? Jose https://yosekbaez60.ws

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