UPDATE: RECITATION/READ BOTH VERSIONS http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=DOR6BA501pk
Order a pint or what you will find a pew or stool ...and join in if you are so inclined or just propup the bar as they did in 'Cheers' so long ago.
What is prose and what is poetry? and does it really matter
To illustrate this question I show below in A a piece of prose I submitted here on PS in a contest way back when.and in B
the same piece visually presented in another contest as as poetry ( as I label it STRUCTURED PROSE
it would appear there is only two real differences between prose and poetry...
Visual presentation and ...
...the fact that poetry is written to read aloud, as it better permits the use of the inflections of the human voice and the 'pause' for greater effect upon the listener.
The reading becomes an experience or to paraphrase Pollock in another context ' an arrested moment in time'
A.PROSE
I pushed at the open door,there was no sound,no noise,just darkness all around.Dust filtered my nostrils,a mustiness of lost years inhabited my senses.A loose floorboard creaked as I headed for the stairwell,the aroma of her Chanel provoked memories of my living hell.A tear of self-pity congealed in the dirt as I switched on the light."Hello son,I knew you'd be back
He's gone..."
B.AS STRUCTURED PROSE ie poetry
I pushed at the open door, no sound
just darkness inside. Dust filtered my
nostrils, a mustiness of lost years
inhabited my senses. A loose floorboard
creaked in the stairwell, the aroma
of her Chanel provoked memories of my
living hell. A tear of self-pity congealed
in the dirt at my feet.I switched on the light,
"Hello son I knew you'd be back;He's gone..."
Hear me read/recite both versions here http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=DOR6BA501pk