"Question--a rest (silence; pause) in music is easy to indicate. How do you do that in a poem, please? Perhaps Avy of the lovely anniversary poem can give some hints on that technique." - Personally I use a number of different scribblings... the same notation as music does (as I understand within my own perception of tempo (and the tempo of the "work") what that means) - or, like a screenplay, I'll (in parenthesis) write the words "wait two seconds" - or, skipping a line after a period.


(this is clearly no paragon)