Punctuation Poems - Poems about Punctuation

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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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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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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stolen colon 11/20/23...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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from he'll to hell from she'll to shell well we'll see how deep it is a dash is a walk but two or more dashes makes me run a colon is a man's gland a gee spot poked fun at by a rubber covered proctologist's finger a semicolon however is not in any sense of the word a medical condition but as all bad poetry must end and so there is the period it seems a simple dot not a comma nor a comment but an end yet for mi Musa she sees it...

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Dictionary in hand Bobbies manned state of the spy craft created strategic peripheral outposts a comma dated, (sans syntax garnered monies) equated justifiable to build galley ma free Highland Manor wing - feted via "FAKE" glitterati creating surreptitious hated surveillance monitor ring, which insulated decked...

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