“He writes prose, cuts the sentence <br />With a comma, starts next line <br />On a capital letter, and uploads <br />It on the Net as a poem! ” <br /> <br />I agree: it is done that way. <br />But how do you define a poem? <br />Should be about moon and June, <br />Rose and daffodils and beauty, is it? <br /> <br />“No, ” says my acknowledged legislator, <br />“It need not be: but it cannot be <br />Gossip about your wife or neighbor; <br />It has to be general, extracting poetic essence <br />From situations, events or relationships.” <br /> <br />Thus I get one more definition of poetry; <br />Whether it is this way or that <br />I don’t know: all the same I upload this.<br /><br />Daniel Trevelyn Joseph<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-writes-prose/
