poetry vs. prose

Poetry vs. prose
Poetry is a form if literary art that uses symbolism, metre, and sound symbolism. Prose is the form of written language that is not organized in patterns or verses. Prose can have rhythm as well as patterns and balance, but it is not governed by type of formal arrangement. Poetry is governed by patterns as well as rhyme. Patterns and rhyme tend to emphasize the relationships between the words and the meanings.  
     Patterns and rhyme make words flow together, like the way a ball falls off the wall at the tall man’s call. That is a play on the way the word “all” is in all the words and allows the words to flow off the tongue and create a pattern and almost a rhyme. Patterns can take place anywhere. The way the words are organized and structured. Poem poets arrange their words to form pictures and motions. Take for example Ellen Hopkins her words form different things like stop signs and hands, teardrops, flowers, pills, all different kind of things.
      Prose is without patterns or rhymes at all. It includes sentence’s to a point, just enough to portray the thoughts and ideas. A beginning a middle and of course an end. A birth, a life, and a death if you will so kindly say. Like everything it has enough meat and bones to keep the attention span of any reader that may be out there. More like a paragraph then a rearranging of words into lines of different lengths. Not rhyming or having a pattern of lengths and words that matter. Prose is a variety that is so vast that it is limitless and unending in the possibilities that is gives you. Telling a story or a tale that doesn’t end just goes on until you just have to stop because you simply ran out of words to even think of continuing.
     Poetry is a way to get out your feelings. A way to help communicate what we are not quite able to say but are able to write down. A way of writing down how we feel in that moment a letting of words that just flow from one’s mind and onto the paper, the words course through the veins and into the pen and ink and turn into squiggly lines that you see on the paper. Not using full sentences and just letting it all out in a true pure natural and healthy way. Hurting no one and still feeling good and whole at the same time.  Writing in a way that other poets can understand exactly what you are saying when there is no one else that is willing to listen, when everyone else has shut you out there will always be a paper and pen that you will be able to pick up. The paper will always listen you just have to know how to write and it will always be blank and open for new ideas and concepts that will flow into your head and through your body.
Pose just like poetry is way to communicate to people when the writer is in a time of stress or a time of great need when the writer is at a low and their family may have shut them out, they maybe hurting and alone when they shouldn’t be. In a time of need everyone needs something to help the deep urges that they may have. When they are in need of a hand to hold and no one is nearby a pen can always fill the shaking hands to keep the arms from bleeding and the mind from wandering to dark and unneeded thoughts that may lurk in the corners of one’s mind. Prose on the other hand you write in full sentences you use your words and you create a paragraph of words that help the reader understand what is going to go through your head right at that moment and it puts it into a narrative, and puts it into a form that it paints the picture for the unimaginative and uncreative minds. Prose puts it all together for people to begin to see with the words rather than with their minds. It almost like looking at a picture and having it play out for you what the artist was doing at that time.
Poetry and prose are so much alike that anyone could understand by just reading one and then the other. The differences may be many but the similarities almost outnumber them. One of the little difference is that poetry produces more of an image that must imagined in the readers mind than prose does. Poetry the reader must be able to see what the poet is writing to fully understand and comprehend. Prose paints the picture completely for the reader leaving little to none for the imagination. Both convey messages to the reader from the author that the author want the reader to truly understand and appreciate and respect that it is there opinion and there understanding on a point. Poetry is a love of things and a desire to want the world to see it is as the author does. The desire to spread beauty and love throughout the world. And for everyone to feel loved and connected in some small way and form. One  could say that poets are hippies, their desire for all positive and happiness, don’t forget world peace.
As Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said,” novice poets should know the definitions of prose and poetry: that is prose, - words in their best order: poetry; - the best words in their best order.”  I feel that is observation to be partly true. It take some skill to put some of the best words in the way that fits the topic writing about and the style of poetry being used into the best form for those words. Prose is common words in the best form that the person could come up with at that time. Poetry is not for everyone to write, examples: some cannot rhyme, repeat words gracefully, or match the theme of the flow of the poem all throughout the poem.
Poetry is a way of letting words flow like water off the tongue.  The blooming of a flower in the sunlight. The laughter of a child in the little dark times that may come in this world. This is poetry, the little things that make your heart take flight and make your soul breathe a sigh of relief. Poetry is all around you from the songs you hear and the words you speak.
Prose a communication of the words into the best formation. Taking the words you say every day and putting them into a mixture that makes the best sense to you and having it to where the picture pops out at you and you have an aha moment. Where the world reaches up and you want to finally jump with joy. Where the dots connect themselves and you can see the whole picture instead of dot one to dot two then dot three, opps skipped dote four have to go back and put that one back in.
The various differences and the many things that are alike but in the end, are they not just the same? Both arrange words, both make pictures, both help and both take love and devotion to make. So my conclusion, poetry and prose, one and the same.