Life is adventure, not predicament.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.