Editorial, 3

God spare us from the multiplied gerund ending---

which on our verbs are relentlessly descending

to rob them of action that is emphatic,

and make the poems more impotently static.

 

Starward

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Amen! A devastatingly clever

Amen! A devastatingly clever invocation. 

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Thank you.  After reading a

Thank you.  After reading a poem that was all gerund endings, and contorted sentences, with the verbs repeatedly hamstrung, I could not resist writing this.  Thanks again for commenting.


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