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This is a book of poetry,
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I've recently worked with an author on 4 volumes containing mostly poetry and quotations...with all of the infinite styling challenges of poetry. It's not easy.
Your styling must be spot on, no cheating using <br/> for a new line, for example. Use the editor and do a solid style for every need. I have 21 styles to handle what is in those four books, for example.
IMHO, Calibre won't do a perfect job of converting this sort of thing for a word processor if you need precise output. In my case, we do the ebook first, then go to Writer for page size, final editing, and then a pdf for sending to Amazon for the printed book. The only thing I've found that will do the conversion "really well but not perfectly" is Jutoh.
I open the epub in Jutoh, and the styles from Calibre are nearly perfectly maintained, right down to the style name. So a style I called "Verse1_Top" in the editor stays that way in Jutoh. Most settings are also perfect. Some tiny adjustments are still needed, for some reason.
Then when I use Jutoh to compile an odt for Writer, it is still 99% good, again, right down to the style names. This is a huge leg up. Then in Writer I add the page styles needed for not only the page size, but headers, footers, page numbering, TOC generation, gutter margins, and all that. Then we do the pagination and final edits, export to pdf, and Amazon is happy.
Although I use Writer, Jutoh will work with Word as well, although I can't personally speak to the results.