What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[billy]

So we pretty much have the "Poetry is whatever I want it to be" mindset?  We look at we've written and say, "this is poetry."  The only distinction between prose and poetry is the fact we want it to be poetry?

So if I ask a painter about the elements of composition, he dismisses the concept and says, "It's art because I say so."

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poetry for me is what the reader makes it. there will be and never can be a definitive answer to something so dynamic and creative.  we are what we say we are while also being what other's say we are.  poetry is shroedinger's cat being screwed by a non-existant dog.

The question was not, "What is poetry?", it was "what's the difference between prose and poetry?"

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if we can define then we can say what the differences are. we don't ask any artist what art is we tell them it is or isn't art. art is art because it affects someone else or the artist. art is art because it affects me. art is not objective and the difference between the outright piece of prose and the outright piece of poetry is not objective. there is no concusive answers to questions like these, only subjective answers. rowens pieces are sometimes prose, sometimes poetry but it's not always easy to discern. i often see his block writing as poetry. many would see it as prose simply because it's a piece of block writing.

ps. i saw you posted further on saying you think you're be channelled. in truth you're not; you're being engaged. something we should all aim to be.