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The history of the prose poem in America is comparatively short. Thus, as yet prose poem does not have any specific rules to keep and “no aesthetic or compositional tradition has formed around the prose poem.” Robert Bly, who is one of the leading writers of prose poetry, however, succinctly expresses his view on the prose poem. The purpose of this paper is to reveal some characteristics of the prose poems of Robert Bly. The paper suggests that Bly's prose poems are mostly thing poems dealing with the essences of the thing itself through direct, natural, and simple dialogical language. This paper also argues that Bly's prose poems are haiku-like dealing with the problem of spiritual awakening. It is also suggested that the deep image and the leaping image are used to express “the lyrical impulses of the soul, the ebbs and flows of reverie, the pangs of conscience” throughout his poetry.