Difference between poetry and prose?

[Rose Love]

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Poetry is more than words. It's more than techniques, it's more than form. It is the process. And a poem is a moment of the process.

I like that.

I write a lot in all different types of writing and I think that the way I distinguish what is poetry vs. what isn't is the feeling I have when I'm writing, which comes out in the result. Prose such as I've written in newspaper articles and writings that were going to be books (which I've abandoned for the time-being) are definitively not poems, and I know that, because they don't feel like poems and the purpose I write them with is entirely different from, for example, the purpose I wrote the Precarious Love poem. I think the purpose plays a big part and determines the feeling of the result and maybe even whether the result will be a poem or not.