Originally Posted by thomasracer56

Let's face it, in my perspective, if one makes both poems and songs, then you can consider him/her both, but a song is a song and a poem is a poem, and the most instrument a poem has gotten is a harp, and those days are centuries past. Enough said. The answer is if their writings are that flexible, then call them that if you want.

Originally Posted by bungalow

well, the song 'emily' i posted earlier is set to harp (and 2005 is hardly centuries past) and the songpoems of robert burns are just that, songs and poems and at the same time.

Originally Posted by thomasracer56

i'm not talking about songs on harp, i'm talking about poems on harp. Poems on harps were in the middle ages when they had epic poets. No epic poets that are famous here today.