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Punctuation Poems - Poems about Punctuation

Premium Member white punctuation
white punctuation where did the minutes go? we held hands and laughed at nothing because nothing mattered as we traveled into the safeguard of night darkness was a friend dressing us like a single wool blanket pulling us together at the shoulders tugging at our hearts there… basking in warmth co-mingling tears defined us we wanted to blend with the sea but chasing foaming...

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Categories: punctuation, feelings, love, memory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member capitalization and punctuation
capital okay punctuation annoys me many decisions hot exclamation or dot dot dot incomplete i pick up my pen...

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Categories: punctuation, writing,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Not the Sharpest Tool in the Punctuation Shed
Welcome friends, I know you will be most excited with tonight's special guest that we have invited. So, let's give a round of applause and a cheer. Punctuation's star, Exclamation Point, is here.    Welcome.  It's good to see you, Exclamation Point. Yes!  Let's do it, Johnny!  I just got out of the joint! My goodness, I was going to say, you're looking...

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Categories: punctuation, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Punctuation
Poetry is not all about punctuation Poetry is more about meaning If you need punctuation To guide you Then this is The last thing You should be reading. "!?:-',.;!?...

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Categories: punctuation, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Punctuationship
When I met you, I was uncertain. I kept my love behind a curtain. Upon our romance we did embark, But was I just a question mark? You were exciting.  You were sure. In your feelings, you were secure. You won me, never to disappoint. Cheers, my lovely exclamation point!...

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Categories: punctuation, humor, metaphor, relationship,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Purloined Punctuation
stolen colon 11/20/23...

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Categories: punctuation, word play,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Help To See Your Poems Clearly
I have presbyopia, astigmatism and more than a dose of dyslexia to boot And so I have to break up my poetry into stanzas or my writing goes mute I fall between the letters and get lost upon the page and nothing makes any sense  and my brain begins to rage My eyes get tired fast, reading a page of unrelenting...

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Categories: punctuation, education, funny, humorous, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Custodian of Apostrophe's Apostle
Custodian of Apostrophe's Apostle Who done it, steed? Who said what's read between the lines marked with ad hoc diacritic dashes?...

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Categories: punctuation, spoken word, writing,
Form: Verse
English Should Be Easier
A semi-colon connects two thoughts together An exclamation mark screams out its cause You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe a comma can give you a pause A question mark begs for an answer Quotations usually mean this is not mine A colon tells me there is a list or the second and first parts are combined Then there is...

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Categories: punctuation, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rambling About Punctuation
Someone asked me for some punctuation advice I’m not an expert on requirements, as such, I thought for them to ask me was rather nice No two poets will agree on punctuating much. In poetry, a comma is a pause in the action A breather, so to speak, at the end of a line, While a period means to stop...

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Categories: punctuation, perspective, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Brief Word On Punctuation In Poetry
Must we debate the virtues of a period Or even a comma at the end of a line? As poets we will do well to remember Sometimes no punctuation, at all, ...

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Categories: punctuation, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Punctuation Marks
What Punctuation Marks ———————————————————————— (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;...

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Categories: punctuation, language, poems, teacher, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Final Punctuation
moribund she wondered what the postmortem would leave other than a dead body and wounds made by the many scalpels of life operations gone wrong and stitch-ups with sutures festering at the seams as a mere mortal she had not chosen the coffin head stone and grave as one should not mess with writings on the wall of reputation and fame a quick eulogy and...

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Categories: punctuation, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Look What Happens When You Add Punctuation
Imperfection ... it reveals a flaw, Let's banish this word out the door, Here's a revelation Add some punctuation I'm Perfection ... this phrase I adore! 11/21/20...

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Categories: punctuation, uplifting, words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Capitalization and Punctuation
Capitalization and punctuation are automatic to me. It is what I was taught years ago, and I cannot break the habit. Haiku is difficult for others insist on no apostrophes or caps. It is difficult to unlearn what has been instilled and boy was this instilled. All of those quizzes and tests, which I thought were a waste of...

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Categories: punctuation, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

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