Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

EstherFlowers1

• 53 reads

A stifled stoem for your meter’s ’furiation.

Poems can be stories and they very often are. Not so much out on display, more like a door ajar. You fight, you flee, you stay, for that glimpse at who you are, whilst sweet madness ’long the way keeps you laughing at a star. Writing’s an attempt to flay, or ’very least to mar, whereas rhyme’s an ink-blot test they say, though not at all on par with an ambushed jay worth two in bush, so near but oh so ___.

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

HISbutterfly89

• 31 reads

Ode to a story

Ode to a story.

Whether it's yours or mine.

Whether it's a piece of your life.

Or something made up in your mind.

Ode to a story.

that you read up late in your bed.

where you go to far way places

in the depths of your head.

Ode to a story.

that you can't put down.

that you hurry to the ending.

In hopes it turns around.

Ode to a story

that is a fight against all odds.

that tells of a journey

that ends in tears and applause.

Ode to a story,

that helps you to grow.

that opens, uncovers

the pieces you needed to know.

Ode to a story.

that fills up your heart

with love and of hope

to find your own sweetheart.

Ode to a story.

of mystery and crime.

where the day is saved,

just in the knick of time.

Ode to a story.

of knights brave and true,

of kingdoms, and swords,

and dragons that flew.

Ode to a story.

read just before bed,

with tucked in little children,

and kisses on heads.

Ode to a story,

that sing a song,

that get stuck in your head,

all day long.

Ode to a story

and to poetry too.

because poems are stories

and I just proved it to you.

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

AlisonAudrey

• 35 reads

Cracked

my words in poems

are disjointed

cracking on bad structure

the hinge of the meaning

hidden in convoluted phrasing

whereas stories seem to be

more open ended

a way to put together thoughts

without losing sight

of the end result

a poem is merely

a single thought

crushed into uneven

stanzas and presented

with nothing but love

but stories are easy

to follow and lead

us to the very spot

where we left ourselves

the most vulnerable part

of prose being the telling

of how we find our way home

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

Aid

• 26 reads

Stories are better

Stories are better.

You can use more syllables

to convey your thoughts.

Three more words...

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

318724

• 33 reads

I like poems.

I never knew my grandfather very well. He was a reserved man: brilliant and subtle. He had a crooked smile and he only spoke when he had something funny or insightful to say. As a result, I never knew him well and quite honestly, I never wanted to. There was no reason for that feeling, but he seemed like the kind of person who would be difficult to get to know. Eventually, I got to know him after he died. I read his book of poetry and I realized he was human. There's a running joke that the men on my father's side can't communicate well. That begun with my grandfather. But in these lines of free verse, his emotions braided themselves into each word, stringing letters together in an equally intentional and haphazard way. He communicated to me from beyond the grave in a manner only poetry could. Stories are fine - good even - but sometimes it's difficult to explain yourself in the detail stories require. Poetry and song share a common principle: their meanings are not definite or finite. You can manipulate people's words to make them your truth and that is the root of my love for poems. I see my granfathers words, and suddenly I am there with him, doing a puzzle and not saying much, but feeling his feelings.

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.

Finder

• 37 reads

Poetry vs. Prose

Poetry gives the reader the joy of turning to the last page of a novel to see how it end without are the description and character development. Poetry strips away all the frills and fussiness and give you the take away, bare naked for the reader to absorb without turning a page. Why wade through the muck to find a gold nugget, when it can be handed to you in less than 40 lines?

Poetry is the zen, universal yet personal. Poetry doesn't make the reader work for the message. Poetry is honed like a rock chipped sharp into an arrowhead to pierce the reader in one swift shot. Prose beats the reader into submission with repeated soft blows with the cluttered tree branch of adverbs and adjectives. Why 35000 words with 35 will do?

As Winston Churchill said, "If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now."

Prose is speaking for an hour. Poetry is that two minutes of well stated sparsity.

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Poem or Story?

Many of us on here write and convey differently. Some use stories, and others poetry to write about different subjects. So, just for fun, pick a side. If you think stories convey more, write a poem explaining why. If you believe poetry explains more, write a story explaining why. Can be short, long, serious, funny, you pick it.