"Poetry"
Poetry to me is not 'like' a story, because it 'is' a story.
What makes a good story?
I think its a good plot with a message.
Poetry for me is mama's pot. Throw in the metaphor, metonymy, allusion, alteration, parallelism, paradox and whatever you have right there with you. All thrown in, in no particular order.
Then you stir while humming a nice tune filled with emotions.
Love, hate, regret, anger, shame, grief, joy, burning desire. The dominant emotion will be the aroma of whats cooking.
When you finally serve the dish, the aroma, that's the emotion(if any at all exist) will be the first noticeable feature. And when the munching, swallowing and disggesting begins, it will fall into a stomach lined with emotions.
This for me is poetry.
And that's exactly what is in this book💙