What Punctuation Marks
What Punctuation Marks
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(Dedicated to our Pens)
Commencing with colons saying,
“Look at what follows me”:
Commas go with the need to breathe,
Adding, or between, as the case may be.
Semicolons help related thoughts,
and lists of a length more supreme,
Like running on; followed; listed;
everything seen; or
(I like adding) dreamed.
Parenthesizes surround thoughts inserted
By the narrator not to digress, but
(editors note) expand
the writing’s dimension.
Periods mark ends, like a day to bed,
Except when set in threes, known as
the ellipses, which can indicate
A denouement that might be taken
On ad infinitum, like clouds afloat…
Maybe to a related or distant expression
— perhaps a sibling theme — as perceived;
Maybe ending with an exclamation point,
Announcing an extreme point reached!
Yet, always remaining…Chances approach
For asking questions (Do you see?)
Set forth to ponder by question marks.
Plus, then, dashes will set off —inserted —
To help define.
Punctuation, also, in its own way speaks
(perhaps more than we realize) to lead
Readers on to receive
The thought trains, flights, leaps,
and meaningful leads.
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(c) sally young Eslinger 12/25/21
In admiration for Cindy Sostchmen,
who posts great grammar lessons on FB, her pg. every Monday.
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