Punctuation, stepchild tool of writing <br />Does not get it’s write-ful due <br />If we stopped this literate slighting <br />It would be a literal coup <br /> <br />The period we see as a dot <br />Has such a vital essence <br />The reason we use it a lot <br />Is to forestall a run-on sentence. <br /> <br />Colons: are sometimes used <br />To act as sentencing braces <br />Colons called semi; help us fuse <br />Connecting multiple phrases <br /> <br />To combine a compound adjective <br />The hyphen-comes into play <br />Question marks? are for the inquisitive <br />While commas, show delay <br /> <br />If writing is your avocation <br />And hope writing you will master <br />Punctuate with punctuation <br />Averting literal disaster<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/punctuation/
