Punctuation

by Michael D Nalley   Jul 18, 2008


Must a common-era end with a period,
Sanctimoniously to please the myriad?
Or will the enlightened turn to the dark,
To end eternity with a question mark?

Are our questions just another declaration?
Bound to excite to the point of exclamation?
Let us begin the inquisition with a semicolon;
Assure my thoughts are controlled not stolen.

Punctuate to separate with no further hesitations.
B.C. to A.D. to abbreviate future generations.
The meaning of life calls for a coma or comma.
According to holy teachers such as the Dalai Lama.

If eternity were a poem, would life be a sentence,
Guiding silver seeds to a life of steady repentence,
Sanctimoniously to please the masses of myriads,
Or must every individual live in their own periods?

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  • 9 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    Very clever - I'm a big fan of the rhyming scheme (reminds me of some of my stuff, actually) and I think too few attempt rhyme these days. I understand if it isn't done well, it is usually bad, but when it is good it is excellent - and this is excellent. Anyway, I wonder what Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Blake or Hardy etc etc would make of the current lack of rhyming verse, lol

  • 12 years ago

    by christopher

    This would be a great lesson for kids going kindergarten really michael come on this poem is shallow and neither implicit or explicit shown no character or imagery. there is no substance or feeling to this poem. it is not even a good prayer. punctuation is essential in our english today and is used to bring a persons voice and feeling alive in the prose, poem or story.

  • 16 years ago

    by Nicko

    Well thought out poem Mr Michael yet I expect no less from such a clever word smith, quiet the best poem I’ve read for a while. Nice use of rhyme and metre and plenty to stimulate the intellectual juices.

    Cheerz Nicko

  • 16 years ago

    by xxEvilAngelxx

    Wow that poem is amazing. it just shows that some people are meant to write and with the creativity and unique method of portraying this idea, i can conclude (in my own mind at least) that you are one of these people. keep up the great work, i look forward to more :D

  • 16 years ago

    by donk2ymouth

    I've just come home from seeing Batman: The Dark Knight.

    bare with me here.
    What I can get from this poem, it has a bit to do with religion.
    what is has to do with religion I don't know.
    Are we speaking of too much religion? or too little, the questions you ask in this piece led to much more of my own.
    I don't know if I'm going out of topic, or out of standard, my mind is kind of fuzzy, and un-punctuated.

    I've always been a sucker for poetry speaking about poetry.

    good work.
    sorry for the confused comment.

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