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[BrandonW1985]

@BrandonW1985 latest poem Fight the Poison in Life. A reemerging poet as Political Activist and social commentator.

I didn’t realize that I scoped not just my region but across the country too. Thanks!!

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Oh I’m sorry I answered wrong, SIGH..

Prose is like a regular paragraph from a novel, with complete sentences and a smooth flow.
Poetry, on the other hand, uses special structures like line breaks, rhythm, and flair..

If that is correct, Poetry. But since I’m a stupid student, it’s really Prose...

Anymore questions?!

Allow me to suggest a different definition of the difference. It's not something as simple as structure. Poetry says something that cannot be said in prose. Poetry employs metaphor, irony, paradox to convey ideas that can't be conveyed in a logical narrative that a computer can understand. Prose can convey strong emotions, but poetry aspires to a type of idea that is not just a feeling.

 

[BrandonW1985]

Allow me to suggest a different definition of the difference. It's not something as simple as structure. Poetry says something that cannot be said in prose. Poetry employs metaphor, irony, paradox to convey ideas that can't be conveyed in a logical narrative that a computer can understand. Prose can convey strong emotions, but poetry aspires to a type of idea that is not just a feeling.

So it would be better to write a prose style vs poetic style so I maybe able to put more words into it?!

Because I’m using half/half and I need to be more one way or the other...?!

 

[MrMrsMrsMr]

So it would be better to write a prose style vs poetic style so I maybe able to put more words into it?!

Because I’m using half/half and I need to be more one way or the other...?!

I have read some interesting discourses on prose poetry which I enjoy as I don’t typically write it. And that’s my point. Some poets follow tried dyed and true poetical constructs while other’s simply invent or experiment. Imagine a table set for Xmas with only cakes on it?

Write your own hun, have fun, develop your range. And experiment with past and contemporary stylistic poetic variants. Read, write, give feedback the tried tested and true leap into your own understanding: mine, poems fundamentally are our voices.

Ironically perhaps I recently wrote a poem in the style of SpermFactory

Keep writing Brandon just do, not think. x