A response

Just this once

To one, who in a manner rather terse

Wanted to know the difference between poetry and verse:

Verse

Covers the whole gamut from superb to very much worse;

Poetry, since it would seem that one must be equally terse,

Is also verse,

But verse which (rhyme or no rhyme)

Has passed the test of discrimination acclaim and time.

So, until your verse has (and you will never know it),

DON’T, please, call yourself a POET!