Subject: Defining the Art
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
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Date: Thurs April 2, 1998 at 4:13PM

Confusion abounds about this very art

As some don't realize there are two parts
To the work we all refer to as writing ...
But both of them refer to different things

Prose is any writing at all which is not verse
This means anytime one writes to be heard
One writes words without structure - free
From the constraints of flow which are the

Prime requisites of any kind of poetry at all
Whether rhymed or unrhymed - words talk
In a flow establishing a theme in a verse
This is poetry whether long or even terse

The two words are antonyms of each other
One refers to versed work under a cover
Of the word - poetry - to define all the flow
And this work can be either of these to tow

The line establishing thoughts in rhyme or not
Regardless - they are both grown in poetry pot
Prose - on the other hand - is simple writing
Which can take any form - nice or even biting

And is completely the opposite kind of work
For prose has no verse qualities to make perk
And so it covers every writing that's not versed
Defining the simple act of words, unrehearsed

- Tristram

(c) Christopher W. Thomas
4:15pm Thurs. April 2nd, 1998