Mysty,
I see your point and thanks for the comments.
One of the rules I always keep is never to use [;] in a poem. It looks horrid on the printed page and editors usually change the semi-colons before they print your poems on paper. Same goes for dots (....). You will never see either of those in my work.
Also, Jacquii calls this poem "prose". It is not "prose". Every major poet since 1930 has written this way--modernism is what it is called. Examples: Pound, Williams, Stevens, Elliot, Whitman, Rexroth, Snyder, Ginsberg, and almost all the names in contemporary British and/ or American poetry anthologies. Whoever doubts this only has to open such an anthology and see. I can add hundreds of names here but will not do so--those who want to see them, can look for them, even over the net.
I understand that for the purposes of this forum, the moderators have created strict classes for poems based on the old-school sing-song and rhyme principles. That is the reason I rarely post here, as I do not like that fallacy they have created, and I have tried to say so in various ways.
Still, it is their decision, and I respect that, but I disagree also--which is my civil right.
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