Prose Or Poetry, Or Both?

Many have suggested that poetry is now the "in" thing and prose, unless genuinely informative, is "out."  Yet, one moderator on another site keeps on discouraging its writers from writing poetry and instead urges them, mostly poets, to write factual articles, but the score cards there, per individual stats and earnings, indicate otherwise.  Poetry wins but at any rate, whether one's composition is one or the other,  meaning poetry winning over prose,  the earnings don't make a dent to the motivation:  still flat zero.

Guess what site that is and I will applaud your common sense, if not intellect.  They will exact a heavy toll on you in terms of making your article pretty by combing the internet for cute, and legitimate images and afterward go through the whims and caprices of individual moderators whether you'll get a "star page" for the effort, poems or otherwise as output. 

The truth hurts, if one closely associated with the site happens to read this and shout out loud:  YOU ARE SO WRONG!  You are entitled to your opinion much as I am.  But the fact of the matter is, the truth hurts you more than it does me.

That's a style in prose, the way I put it there.  Clear and straightforward, but bland.  The message clothed in poetry will resound more like thunder,  clearer in imagery,  and kicks the butt of the administrator in question than is mentioned therein...in prose.  So let me update him, the hollow man, in a poem:

There are two people in hopeless bondage;

one is you with you yourself,  you calloused

nothingness;  the other is the multitude that

fills your unworthy emptiness,  some of them

resolute in inflating your dream-like ambition;

others grieving at your passing like Hitler, by

the nut-crackers in your nightmares to come.

August 8,2012

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