Is prose poetry prose or poetry?

Prose poetry is a modern lyric literary genre with both poetic and prose characteristics. It combines some characteristics of expressive poetry and descriptive prose. In essence, it belongs to poetry, with poetic feelings and fantasies, giving readers aesthetic feeling and imagination; In content, the poetic prose details are retained; Formally, it has the appearance of prose, unlike poetry, which rhymes in different cases, but it also has inherent beauty of rhyme and sense of rhythm. Prose poems generally express the author's small feelings on the basis of social and life background, and pay attention to describing the fluctuations and fragments of thoughts and feelings caused by objective life. These characteristics determine the richness of its theme and the brevity and flexibility of its form.