“He writes prose, cuts the sentence
With a comma, starts next line
On a capital letter, and uploads
It on the Net as a poem! ”
I agree: it is done that way.
But how do you define a poem?
Should be about moon and June,
Rose and daffodils and beauty, is it?
“No, ” says my acknowledged legislator,
“It need not be: but it cannot be
Gossip about your wife or neighbor;
It has to be general, extracting poetic essence
From situations, events or relationships.”
Thus I get one more definition of poetry;
Whether it is this way or that
I don’t know: all the same I upload this.
Daniel Trevelyn Joseph
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-writes-prose/
