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Why is the first word of the third line of each stanza capitalized without there being any full stops? Why are there only two full stops and no commas in this entire poem? If you can answer those questions without guilt, then answer them, else don't bother. Poetry CAN circumvent traditional memes, b...

Your skills are evident, but you're abusing poetic form to avoid punctuation. That's OK provided you CAN punctuate, IF you want to. But I'm new here and I don't know how skilled you are, so I have to assume that you can learn something: If you do have anything left to learn, then basic grammar is ne...

As a universally accepted poem, this doesn't quite cut it. You're almost there, in that you have your own way of reading this poem out loud, and by the END we (the readers) have mostly got it. What you need to do is make us get it sooner, by sticking to a stricter meter, I say 'need', but it's more ...

Thanks Frank, possibly the most honest response I've ever received. Stick around.

I am sorry for the rudeness of my earlier response, which I will now edit down as I don't want to discourage others form posting.

Surrogate I am confused by this new source of sustenance, maybe it merits my reprieve, perhaps not. Now I drop everything and stand up and sit down and I frown because I need it but I don't. So I go to the toilet instead but Nothing comes out. I walk away half-dressed without the will to button-up, ...

Line breaks are not a substitute for punctuation.

Oki Doki, my first post, may aswell rip a new hole, aka line by line. She needs Marigold Petals and Fresh Tangerine on the East wall. why capitalise everything except 'wall', it's as nouny as everything else here. Eggshell. I flinch at the idea of a border - it is not included in my quote. Wow Egshe...