A full-stop (or, parenthetically, a period in American parlance) is
not the only mark of punctuation, dear Vidyanjali; 
lest it incur the wrath of running afoul of syntax, 
commas and colons also give respite under the banyan tree, 
to a sentence running on in hot pursuit of a quest for eternity --
not to mention a dash or two of cardamom to awaken the aroma
for one's enhanced appreciation of the feast of words being carried on trays
through a crowded cafe, and,
if the sentence doesn't come to a full-stop,
how can it not drown out, with its huffing and puffing, 
the doubts about its endeavours or the encouragement of its friends and neighbors with questions and exclamations of their own to interject and exclaim and, yet,
not come to a full stop?!
 
Gee whiz!  Did it make sense that one could end where one started, perhaps, explaing that eternity is a process of coming full circle?
 
In any case, doesn't a sentence that is active by its "wish" but passive by "being continued" in a conundrum about its voice and place in life, confused and invoking the spirit of Hamlet?  To be or not to be -- active or passive?
 
Discuss!
 
Mani Suri

vidya anjali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
please read and comment on this poem. let me know if the idea makes sense or not..
 
I don’t care much for a full-stop
When the sentence is interesting
And wishes to be continued…
 
Pause a poem, force a full-stop
And there will it lose beauty.
Leaving in black-and-white
What wishes to be hued...
 
I remember being taught in schools
That terse sentences are more meaningful;
What needs to be grown is thus often subdued…
 
Write your sentences long dear friends,
Simply pour out your hearts,
Don’t force a full-stop but take time and wait
For every sentence needs to be construed…
 
Vidyanjali.
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