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stopping a fight

by Charlie Morgan

came upon a fight; seems the commas
were getting the best of the reader;

i had to grab, quickly, some semicolons
and rush to the reader's defense, and soon
things were somewhat back to normal;

it was only after the dust had settled
that i saw the bloody wreakage
of sentences, left unattended by periods;
left alone to die were many erestwhile
expressions; left to live for another
story were some fruitful ideas; the ideas
just needed clarity of expression
and commas alone weren't doing the trick.

09/27/2006

Posted on 09/27/2006
Copyright © 2025 Charlie Morgan

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Angela Nuzzo on 09/28/06 at 07:11 AM

Yes! HaHa. I've encountered many a smackdown myself. A great poem that I'm sure all of us writers can relate to. :)

Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 09/28/06 at 08:51 AM

LOL nothing worse than a punctuation mob, without editors to control. This brings life to inanimate dots and dashes...

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 09/28/06 at 03:57 PM

Nothing scarier than run ins with a run on. Whew! Great poem!

Posted by A. Paige White on 09/28/06 at 05:57 PM

*giggle* the first line got them going... I could see a reader at a computer screen with arms full of commas (life-sized o' course)trying to get them to settle down, some sneakily sliding down to hop away from the puter... really like this!

Posted by Michelle Angelini on 09/30/06 at 03:06 AM

Those blasted commas will get you every time! They are the most abused punctuation in the English language. aaarrrgggh! Thanks for my laugh for the day Chas...
~Chelle~

Posted by Kyle Anne Kish on 10/02/06 at 05:53 PM

How to punctuate a poem? Does it need commas, semicolons, no punctuation, a few question marks here and there? Oh, so many ways to go. LOL! It can be so confusing for the writer if one looks too hard. peace and love ~~ Kyle Anne

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 08/09/08 at 02:37 PM

you are a joy joy joy to read!

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I adore poems that runalongside the molecules of writing. _Jill

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