"Prose Pose"

Now let me get this right
A poem can be anything.
A rhyme or no rhyme at all
Words all over the page
Long or short
Size isn't everything
Written in calmness
Penned in rage.
I uderstand that.
I'm not totally thick.
But what I cannot work out
Is this thing called
'Prose Poetry'.
It looks like a short story.
It reads like a short story.
In fact calling it poetry
At all stinks so much
Makes it smell
Like a short story.
So if you write that stuff
Stop kidding youself
You're a poet.
Though to be fair
I pretend I'm one too.
Perhaps I'll just file it away
Under the sub-section of poetry
Called 'Not for me'.

Dulwich Poet 13th October 2013.

( I cannot get my head round that 'prose poetry' is poetry!)