Hi Eph. Thanks. The change of pace/mood towards the end was deliberate.

Hi Roscoe, thanks. Any ideas how to get this to appear on screen with my deliberately long lines intact and unspaced?

Thanks for your comments. As it happens the current style in which I write is free verse but with long lines; I find this is a way of adding strength to free verse, it shows confidence, and allows me to use both punctuation and line breaks to control the rhythm and flow of the reading. I can see that the system simply won't accommodate that, so maybe I will have to find another way of presenting my poetry. Perhaps blogging it - that's a thought. Perhaps I will look at that possibility, then people will have a chance of seeing the poem as I intended it.

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Hi Jim, and thanks for the comments.

Formatting - that's because I deleted the whole poem (in the state it was in) and re-typed it straight into Neopoet, using 'plain text'. It appears that is the only way I can get the system to accept my long lines.

I just clicked 'please don't critique mechanics' originally because it would have been pointless anyone saying they did or did not like the layout, because the layout was decided by the system, not my me!

'Prose poetry' - that's not really my intention. Lately I have simply been writing free verse with long lines. I do this to show confidence in the strength of my poetry, and to allow both internal punctuation and line length to indicate pace, pause, and breathing to the reader.

Copying from editor to notebook. I am not entirely sure what you mean by this. I compose my poetry in MS Word. Oh and by the way, I use italics a lot in my poems; I am currently holding back some poetry from here because I am not confident that I can force the system to accept both long lines AND italics in the same go.

Here's some feedback. What would make things good from my point of view would be if the system would allow one to enter blank lines before and after the body of text of a poem, thereby allowing it to sit in a bigger space. This seems to be no problem on 'another site' (no names) where you might have read my poetry before.

Lately I have also been creating Lithopoemai (see http://lithopoesis.webs.com to get an idea; my normal format, unlike on the web site, is black font on white paper); this form really require a system whereby one can form narrow columns of fully justified text. I doubt if that facility will ever be available here. What do you think?

On reflection, I was guessing to myself that's what you might have meant.

... just gush, it costs nothing.

But it disnae matter wan brass fart! Thank you. :-)

Thanks. :-)

Just re-reading, I'm wondering whether I haven't got the transition from line 6 to line 7 wrong.

That's what I was aiming for, John. :)