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There is no syntactic definition for poetry. It's a poem if it feels like a poem to someone. That someone doesn't have to be.
Post'em, and we'll tell you whether we think they're good poems, but if you thought they were poems once, that question has already been settled.
ok, is there a definition? I looked it up, and the answer to the people who define these things, is that verse and rhyme is involved. So, I say, ok, have those boundaries to these people that define. To answer, call your poem a "lyric", or Clementine, call it what you want. Unless you have iambic pantameter, I guess we shall never be poets. I live on a mountain stream an my thoughts go to script and go to TBD, Alas, cyber poetry
So, what qualifies a poem to you?
My personal and highly opinionated sniff test for "Is it poetry?" is this: If rhyme and meter are vital and present in the work, it's a poem. If not, it's prose. If I can remove the line breaks and what's left reads like prose, then it is prose. Breaking a sentence randomly is NOT poetry. Here's an example:
POETRY
Roses are red,
Triscuits are brown,
When we go shopping,
I walk around
NOT POETRY
Two Triscuits
sit
on
a plate
in my kitchen
Thursday night
at 11:30.
Where is Donna?
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As always, YMMV
I looked it up, and the answer to the people who define these things, is that verse and rhyme is involved.
That definition is a little antique at this point.
"Antique"?
I suggest rather that it's classic. Fundamentals of art are not determined by a calendar or by the zeitgeist.
"Antique"?
I suggest rather that it's classic. Fundamentals of art are not determined by a calendar or by the zeitgeist.
OK, let me be more precise, if less polite.
Outdated, obsolete, superseded, archaic.
NOT POETRY
Two Triscuits
sit
on
a plate
in my kitchen
Thursday night
at 11:30.
Where is Donna?
====================
As always, YMMV
I love your Not Poetry one so much more than the Poetry one!! It made me think, and smile. Since it moved me, doesn't that make it art?
