11-21-2012, 11:53 PM
Of the poems I have read on this site, I would estimate that about 50%, more or less, are, by my definition, not poetry, but prose split up into lines so that it looks like a poem. I myself write things that I call "poetic prose," because they seem to lack the necessary characteristics of poetry, but they still are written with a very poetic quality and language, and, at that, they are far more poetic than prose I have seen presented as poetry on this site.
I have never dared to add comments or feedback to this effect to poems here that I consider not to be poems, because I seem to be the only one who doesn't think they are poems.
This leads me to a question I used to think had an obvious answer: What is the difference between poetry and prose?
I have never dared to add comments or feedback to this effect to poems here that I consider not to be poems, because I seem to be the only one who doesn't think they are poems.
This leads me to a question I used to think had an obvious answer: What is the difference between poetry and prose?