Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> NancyGene wrote: > >> Will Dockery wrote: >> [email protected] (George J. Dance) posted: >> >>> Will Dockery wrote: >>> George J. Dance wrote: >>> >>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day: >>> Poem for Kathy, by Will Dockery >>> >>> [...] >>> I can't think of >>> anything else I should write. >>> If I try >>> my emotions explode. >>> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/02/poem-for-kathy-will-dockery.html >>> >>> Thanks again for giving me a moment in the spotlight, GJD. >>> >>> Thank you for providing me a poem for Valentine's Day, Will. I hope and expect, >>> that you'll get much more than a minute's publicity from it. I was happy to see >>> it reenter PPB's Top 10 this month, and I don't think that will be the last time. >>> It will be up and getting reads as long as the blog stays up; that's the least I >>> can do for a writer. >>> >> >> >> Well put, your efforts to preserve poetry history are appreciated. > > > That should be efforts 'are' appreciated. Also, you have a comma splice in the "sentence," so you should (correctly) have a period, dash or a semi-colon after "put." > > You're welcome. Again, thanks for pointing out my error, NancyGene. Too bad you're unable to help Miguel and Bruce with their similar errors. Miguel, as you know, needs help with commas and quotation marks, while Bruce (similar to Jim Senetto) has probables using the apostrophe. Perhaps, "if time permits," you can help them sometimes, as well? 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=701517398#701517398 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655