Now

[PrinceMyshkin]

Have you ever wondered
about the character of any one
particular moment? Like the one
when you decided
not to become a doctor, after all? Or
after months of thinking about it
you finally fell in love?

Not every moment in life
is as sacred as any other.
Except for this one,
now.

[qimissung]

Thank You for making me think today, Prince.

[selkies]

Have you ever wondered
about the character of any one
particular moment? Like the one
when you decided
not to become a doctor, after all? Or
after months of thinking about it
you finally fell in love?

Not every moment in life
is as sacred as any other.
Except for this one,
now.


that isn't really a poem.
It's awesome but it's not a poem.

It's the introduction and conclusion to a story. Write it

[Pendragon]

Jer, as usual, you can say a lot with so few words... :thumbs_up

[PrinceMyshkin]

that isn't really a poem.
It's awesome but it's not a poem.

It's the introduction and conclusion to a story. Write it

This is another variant of an ongoing debate here as to what is or isn't a poem. Do you have an ironclad definition of one that you'd care to share with us?

[AuntShecky]

I don't know how this piece doesn't fall into "my" definition of a poem --

A poem is any piece of creative writing that isn't prose.
When a poet uses metre, rhyme, figurative language -- those are merely tools in the construction of the piece.

Or how about Coleridge's famous definition?: "Prose is good words in good order. Poetry is the best words in the best possible order."

I may take issue in minor aspects of a particular piece (in this case, the line breaks) but it's extremely wrong to say that it isn't a "poem."

[PrinceMyshkin]

I don't know how this piece doesn't fall into "my" definition of a poem --

A poem is any piece of creative writing that isn't prose.
When a poet uses metre, rhyme, figurative language -- those are merely tools in the construction of the piece.

Or how about Coleridge's famous definition?: "Prose is good words in good order. Poetry is the best words in the best possible order."

I may take issue in minor aspects of a particular piece (in this case, the line breaks) but it's extremely wrong to say that it isn't a "poem."

Criticize my love of country, if you will, my theology or my devotion to my children, but never, never, I beg of you, fault my line-breaks!!!

On the other hand, the person who said that my collection of words was not a poem, could have said much worse: e.g., that a cod is not a haddock when both are, self-evidently, fish.

[qimissung]

H-m-m-m. I don't think I like your line breaks, Prince. Maybe if you changed them, THEN you'd have a poem! l:lol: