---
title: "Prose poem template in Markdown: an invented passage"
slug: markdown-prose-poem-template
excerpt: "Under Paragraph template anatomy, you write from placeholders for a title and two connected paragraphs about an openly named subject."
quickAnswer: "In Subject of this passage, you write a finished figurative passage beneath a title."
keyTakeaways:
  - "Beneath Subject of this passage, you write about a subject named openly at the start."
  - "Within Paragraph template anatomy, you write a brief title above two paragraph placeholders and replace each placeholder with prose."
  - "Under Jane Doe's thread passage, Jane Doe writes comparisons concerning a spool of thread."
  - "Beneath Paragraph template anatomy, you write connected comparisons in place of instructions."
  - "In Filename of the passage, you write a name with hyphens and a .md ending."
publishedDate: 2026-10-23
dateModified: 2026-10-23
author: Bobby Huang
cluster: A
role: post
status: published
faq:
  - q: "Where do I name the subject?"
    a: "In Paragraph template anatomy, you write its name in the opening sentence."
  - q: "What comparison begins the sample?"
    a: "Within Jane Doe's thread passage, Jane Doe writes of a spool as a small reserve of distance."
  - q: "What is in the sample's second paragraph?"
    a: "Beneath Jane Doe's thread passage, Jane Doe writes about thread as a narrow measure between edges."
related:
  - what-is-a-md-file
  - markdown-paragraphs-blank-lines
  - markdown-file-naming
---

## Subject of this passage

You write an original figurative passage with this prose poem template, using ordinary paragraphs beneath a title. You write the subject's name openly in the opening sentence, then connected comparisons about that subject within a separate .md page.

You write in plain text with Markdown symbols, as described in [a .md file's format](what-is-a-md-file.md).

## Paragraph template anatomy

```markdown
# Write a brief title for the passage

Write a paragraph naming an ordinary subject in the opening sentence and describing it through a comparison.

Write a paragraph extending the comparison through another aspect of the same subject.
```

You write a brief title beside `#`, above the figurative prose.

You write the subject's name in the opening sentence in place of the opening paragraph instruction. You write a comparison about that named subject in the same paragraph.

You write a connected comparison in place of the second paragraph instruction. Beneath this template's title, you write two prose paragraphs without further headings inside the passage.

Per [paragraphs and blank lines](markdown-paragraphs-blank-lines.md), one blank line between two runs of text gives two separate paragraphs; you put one such line between this template's two paragraphs.

## Jane Doe's thread passage

Jane Doe, an invented adult, writes this invented original passage for the sample.

```markdown
# Distance wound small

A spool of thread is a small reserve of distance, a long reach folded into a round handful. Its wound length is a coil of nearness, far ends held beside one another without a knot.

The thread is a narrow measure between edges, a soft bridge with no road upon it. In its slenderness, the gap between two hems has the width of a valley; the spool is that valley curled around an empty center.
```

Within the sample paragraphs, Jane Doe writes about the spool first and the thread second.

## Filename of the passage

You write `thread-prose-poem.md` as this sample's filename. You write hyphens and the .md ending into the name, as in [naming Markdown files](markdown-file-naming.md).

## Where Sashmark fits

As planned, Sashmark will be a desktop program for viewing and editing Markdown. That program is for people who keep AI agent output in .md form. Sashmark remains in development, and no version has come out. A set of such .md files is one sort of material planned for Sashmark.