Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery

[email protected] (NancyGene) posted:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> NancyGene wrote:
>>>> 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 problems using the apostrophe.
> > 
> > Perhaps, "if time permits," you can help them sometimes, as well?
> 
> Miguel uses commas and quotation marks just fine.  

You've been tutoring Miguel?

He certainly wasn't using his commas and quotation marks very well earlier in this thread.

I can bump that post if you've forgotten it.

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Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery