yes
but why, or why not are the questions you must ask, meanwhile I’m with Max’s final line…
Doug
On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> have to use a ?
>
> a dash or two
>
> three dots feel permissible to me
>
> even a full stop
>
> but who are our models in this?
>
> pleasant meditation, this
>
> Max
>
> On Dec 10, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> unwelcome arrivals
>> insinuating earth
>>
>> yet to the blind
>> they feel lush
>>
>> to the child
>> they look soft.
>>
>> the wind
>> waves them.
>>
>> they oxygenate
>> air as well
>>
>> as their man-
>> icured cousins.
>>
>> by whose command
>> should we consign,
>>
>> pluck, relegate?
>> weeds we
>>
>> are all
>> in the end.
>>
>>
>> Question: am I 'permitted' in a poem to use punctuation if I choose to go all lower case?
>
Douglas Barbour
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