Where the Sentence Ends.

Where the Sentence Ends

There is a place where the independent clause ends

And before the next clause begins,

And there the paper gleams soft and white,

And a comma radiates burning bright,

And there a semicolon may rest

Let us leave this place full of emptiness

As we take a breath

Past the em dash and commas bend

Past the break where colons grow

We shall read with a tone that is controlled and slow,

And watch for where parenthesis and dashes go

To the place where the sentence ends.

Yes we’ll talk with a tone that is controlled and slow,

And we’ll go where the commas and colons flow,

For the periods, they mark, and the periods, they know

The place where the sentence ends.

Where the Side Walk Ends

By: Shel Shilverstein

I used and kept most of the language that Silverstein uses in the original poem. I made the sidewalk in the original into a sentence, and when talking about the elements of the sidewalk I put in elements on punctuation.