Loose Leaf Notes

Oh, this piece is wonderful!

I keep getting a bounce back on comments. I will try the third time to tell you have wonderful I think the above poem is. The imagery is perfect and the tongue in check humor just what I needed on this hot day. I visited your area last week, but not close enough to say hello.

Testing...testing. Why can't I get my praise comments to come through? Too much praise, perhaps?

Punctuation in poetry is my nemesis. I can't describe how I struggle with it.
Terrific piece, Colleen - and so apt.

Kat

Good poem..........but I still feel there is no punctuation in poems.xox

I don't know why the blog bouncer troll wouldn't let you in, Tabor. If you use a url address it thinks your spam and usually won't let you pass. But it seems that a couple made it through. Thanks for your feedback. I always love hearing from you.

My punctuation motto is "less is best" (or going bra-less in this case) but I'm in a minority.

You know I'm one of those who's with you on this :-)

I also really struggle with punctuation in poetry. I worked with a poet on my work a couple of years ago and she didn't ever like periods in poetry. Part of it is the writer's style I suppose. Thanks for the poem and giving me more time to think about punctuation.

interesting what prompted this one ??sandy Mara makes me laugh

Sandy, This is one of the three poems I wrote while at Virginia Beach in June. It was prompted by this: http://www.looseleafnotes.com/notes/2008/06/poetic_heretic.html

And this: http://www.looseleafnotes.com/notes/2007/10/a_poets_punctuation_proclamati.html

And also because a certain someone in my writers workshop who I play Scrabble with teases me because I don't use punctuation in my poems. It's been an ongoing theme.