Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> NancyGene wrote: > >> Will-Dockery wrote: >> >>> 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? > > > Miguel uses commas and quotation marks just fine. Not really. 😏 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