A new poem for your perusal

Thanks, Xbox! Yeah, it's funny how we want to take back all those promises once we can breathe again. Your comments mean a lot to me - from one with a gift of words like you........

Thanks, tinkerick! I appreciate your words and your grasp of my meaning without taking it all too seriously. As to the grammar aspect of it, huh? Please do explain that, I'm really curious to hear. I'll be looking forward to your answer. :)

Being that I am personally trying to get some of my poetry published, it has been brought to my attention how much grammar is looked at by editors of poetry. I really had no clue until now what kind of grammar they expected. So far I have grasped: Don't capitalize each sentence, don't center each line. Don't use line breaks incessantly- place them where they make sense. I think I'll refrain from critiquing grammar in this sense on anyone else's poetry as I am not an editor myself. I am more comfortable critiquing the abstract areas of the writing. :D

Okay, fair enough! I've got it now. Boy, editors suck, don't they? Way too critical! Ha, ha! I'm just glad you enjoyed the poem. I'd love to hear some of yours......... I gotta tell ya, editors would have a field day with me, my punctuation, grammar, centering, etc! They'd cut me into ribbons, they'd annihilate me! I'd be mincemeat!!

Perfect! Maxine is a character of huge proportion! Gotta love her. and thanks SO MUCH for your compliments. Talent is questionable, though. I just can't stop the words. What a treasure, though. And it's only been since I started talking here on the Lot that those words have started flowing again. I've been a veritable fount of rhyme lately. I've got a few more I've just written and might post them at some point. thanks again, Tickle! Thanks again.

Thank you, darlin'. I'm just SO glad to have you back!

thanks love I'm happy to be back.

Hi, Suehan! Thank you so much!!! Hey, good idea! I'm going to think about a poem for Loungeact. He's one in a million, huh? I'm off to bed now, but I'll see you tomorrow and I'll write more then. Till then........

Boy, no kidding, I would be too! Ya know, all of my poems rhyme and have the same cadence and rhythm as this one. It comes from Robert Louis Stevenson who was my favorite poet as a child. His A Child's Garden of Verses was hugely influential to me. He wrote with the same cadence and rhythm and that's where mine comes from. It's so ingrained into my brain, it's the way all of my poems come to me. Weird, but true. And I love that you realized that it is heartfelt. I had something to say there, but part of it is just simply funny. And thanks so much for your remarks and words. They mean a lot to me. I'll look forward to hearing more from you - and by the way, welcome to mylot. It's a great community with amazing people. If you look at the posters I respond to, you'll find some incredibly smart, funny, supportive and loving people there. They mean the world to me. Take a look at their discussions and responses and you'll see what I mean. See you around the Lot!

Thank you so much! But, I've got so many infractions and fallibilities, they've got to come out somewhere!

Making you chuckle is what I was after! And we've all been there, haven't we? I've always thought about that and recently, it just popped into my head, so I wrote it out. So glad you liked it and thank you so much for the kind words!