Wiktionary
alt. (context literature English) A literary text written in the manner of prose—without the fixed lines, rhyme, and meter often characteristic of poetry—but nonetheless clearly possessing some of the distinctive attributes of poetry, such as lyrical language, evocation of feeling, vivid imagery, metaphor, and linguistic devices like assonance or alliteration. n. (context literature English) A literary text written in the manner of prose—without the fixed lines, rhyme, and meter often characteristic of poetry—but nonetheless clearly possessing some of the distinctive attributes of poetry, such as lyrical language, evocation of feeling, vivid imagery, metaphor, and linguistic devices like assonance or alliteration.
WordNet
n. prose that resembles poetry
Usage examples of "prose poem".
In the hands of that aforementioned good poet, a prose poem can pack all the punch of a novel.
This passage is a prose poem of considerable beauty, expressing not only the loveliness of the natural world but Siddhartha's joy of discovery and his delight in wonders that were hidden until now behind a veil of scorn as Maya, illusion.
In form it's less a story than a prose poem or a drama in blank verse.
Holy, Turgeniev calls her in his great prose poem, ON THE THRESHOLD.