God of Grammar

At the beginning of each year, I give my trusty Daytimer organizer a thorough cleaning. As I was doing this a few days ago, I came across a clipping I originally found about 8 years ago when I was first beginning my editorial career. It’s not traditional poetry, but it did speak to me!

God of Grammar
by Geoff Pope

You are the Suffix
and the Prefix.
You are my very
Immediate Intensifier.
No doubt, you are
the Definite Article.
O Most Conjunctional Creator,
I am sentenced
with your active verbs,
direct objects, and superlatives.
God of grammar,
of spiritual parts of speech,
Corrector of wrong syntax,
point out my sentence fragments
and other errors of composition,
as I see each of my question marks
straighten up into exclamation points.

05. January 2006 by Mindy
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