Prose Verses Poetry

Prose is writing that goes right across the page. It rolls on, sentence after sentence, usually about things mundane.

But Verse is where you yourself

Decide the length of

Line.

 

Or stanza indeed. Some call lines “verses”. They can be very long.

Or short.

Iambic metre may be used

And other metres too.

You can write anapaests if you wish.

 

Yet Poetry is neither prose nor verse

As such.

It is about skyscraper forests looming large,

Trees spiking though mysterious mists.

Poetry is sunshine, filling your heart

With radiant joy.

Black nights of deep depression

Give way to a golden dawn.

The lonely

Find Love.

That’s Poetry.

 

Paul Butters