Dogs as poems

[billy]

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If someone wrote a novella and called it a poem, I would probably never get past the first page because I would feel that I couldn't trust the author. What I mean is that I wouldn't waste my time with someone who couldn't properly label their writing because I would assume (maybe inaccurately) that they must not know what they were doing.

Which was one of points: Pay attention to the content, not the label.
It's the smell of the rose, not the name.
If you don't, you're gonna miss a lot in this life (oh, yeah, and in
poetry too).

is poetry like smell?
i think poetry and how we see or don't see it is more objective. as i said i saw it as out and out prose, you saw it as poetry (i think) the author said it wasn't poetry (and i saw no ambiguity in his statement) so for me it's prose. or an attempt at prose, if i felt it had merit as a poem i'd have mentioned it in my reply. if you see poetry then you see poetry. but to say everyone must see your poetry seems to be a be churlish, cuntish even i don't expect everyone to see what i see but i expect to be able to say, i saw prose" without someone telling me i didn't.