08-17-2015, 01:56 AM
(08-06-2015, 01:27 PM)Animal Riots Activist Wrote: On TimelinessHi, ARA,
I am never on time and nor should you be.
The world waits for those important enough;
it all depends on how you convince yourself
that you are important, and how well at that.
I am never on time and nor should you be. The world waits for those important enough; it all depends on how you convince yourself that you are important, and how well at that.
Is this the form known as prose poetry? When laid out as prose, it is prose. Nothing else. Irrespective of the content (could read as a notable quote) I don't get this as poetry. For me it's chopped-up prose.
Can you help and advise how this example is poetry so that I may 'get it'? I've no issue with the content - It's the form and structure that presents difficulties.
Thanks for the opportunity to read it.
Cheers.
A poet who can't make the language sing doesn't start. Hence the shortage of real poems amongst the global planktonic field of duds. - Clive James.

