Poetry is language that is used to express apparent real feeliings whereby form is stronger than content but, paradoxically, allowing this form thus to enhance the content (expression of those feelings) up towards its own higher strength.


NOTE: 'Form' in the above definition entails various traditions and counter-traditions of rhyming, non-rhyming, enjambement, scanning, non-scanning, deep and shallow textures of text (according to taste and/or literary fashion), possibly underpinned by the fictionalising (spiritualising?) of real feelings into something even greater than any synergy of form and content.

Verse and prose are more narrative

imo