Best Semi Colon Poems

I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Morning is a question mark – 
Serenity or drama?
Afternoon’s a semi-colon,
Period or comma.

If the day’s routine,
You’d list its parts behind a colon:
Ordinary expectations 
Keep those...

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Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out...

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I am
a period.  When you see me it means
a full stop.      A break for
the reader.
   ...

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Here I am just a little dot to signify the end of a thought 
Should I go here. or maybe there.
Ah, just use a comma,...

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how i feel, silly, spoken word, write,
Submitted for contest
Punctuation Personified!

Mind your use of me when making a full stop with finishing your  point
This can...

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A semi baked semi colon is neither a seminar nor a seminary session. It is in fact the whirr of wheels from the large overweight...

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I struggle with this modern speak
It’s as confusing as can be
Nonsense sentences that are stopped
With a colon and a p     ...

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The semi circular motion of a semi colon is neither a separation of an apostrophe or a mere dot of a full stop. Perhaps the...

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This is a short poem dedicated to all of my fellow poets on this site. We know who and what you are.


You're a Poet, but...

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I went to buy an R.V.
They said all I could afford was a Lose-a Beggo.

I bought a pair of alligator shoes.
But then I started wandering...

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ink stained words
I dropped – they fell
discarded cuz
I cudn’t spell

cudn’t get
the “I’s” and “E’s”
in proper places
to a peas

the winners of
the spelling B’s
who mem or eyes
dick...

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Hmm, perhaps titled,
     aye poem already didst aired
though revisiting said theme
     downplayed as thoughts blare

though similar con...

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One day a semi colon met a comma under a bridge. So to speak is to shroud and to silence is to say. State nothing....

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Flouncing flamenco style or doubling up for a pass a doublet is neither a right or a wrong in a semi colon in nightgowns. But...

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