Hi Ralph,
That's a very good question - and one that is tricky to answer as the subject is so debatable, but you sent me off on a Googling trip I enjoyed, in search of others' opinions on the matter.
At school I was taught (putting it very simply) that poems rhyme and prose doesn't. Being a lover of metrical poetry since my childhood that suited me fine back then, and I didn't even come across the phrase "prose poem" until I started to write poems myself.
However, if I was forced to choose one or the other I would cite these examples as "Poetic prose". Others may disagree.
Jayne
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