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ALAN the JPiCan of Grumps Royalty
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Biography: Father of five, Grumps to two, I've been writing poetry since '93, and also love helping other poets
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Dear Niemand,
Loook on punctuation as a way for you, the poet, to give hints to the reader as to your intentions - road-signs, if you like. That way they become easy.
comma = short pause
semi-colon = longer pause, or break in subject matter, but not a total break
endstop = just that.
dash - often used before and after a "comment" - ie a sub-idea - in a sentence, as shown here !
Sometimes an awkward-sounding poetic phrase can be straightened out by just adding one of the above, to enforce the ba-dums you are working with.
I think you will find it easier to see all this if you read your poem ALOUD - the tongue cannot slide over glitshes the way the eye will - you know those clever questions like "read this para - how many f are there in it" - and you say 2, but have completely missed 3 more that were all in "of"s, the eye missed them !
Love
Alan
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