There's still a large discrepancy for many as to what passes for poetry.
Myself I'm an isolationist. So I don't recognize the prose muse as poetry.
If it isn't written to a measure and doesn't rhyme it isn't poetry. What
then is it? A fanciful form of prose, a derivative of a lyric muse. But not
a domain of its own sovereign.
Some might call it "poetry" what came of the 60s beats. It was a muse. And
not to deny it literary credibility. But it was poetry.
Political poetry was the subject and not to overextend so much to protest
rants of 60s. That kind of "rant" poetry created in the 60s refers to what
might be ambiguously pass as era in which "prose" was disguised in short
miscreant form and called "poetry."
Nothing wrong with writing fanciful prose. I write too.
Ernest Slyman
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