Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Lesson on Semicolon Use

I started writing poetry.

Often my best critic sat near,

Sonnet, the house cat, watching me.

Early, taught me a lesson dear.

I used semicolons a lot,

Not knowing if used wrong or right,

But looked brainy, or so I thought.

Then Sonnet growled upon their sight,

Letting me know they should be gone.

Sonnet just did not understand.

Semicolons stayed, whereupon

I still have a scar on my hand.

The pause at the end of the clause

Brought claws from the end of the paws.