Semicolons in general

Are they too archaic? Should I just break the sentences up? Do they ruin the look of poems? I’m using them anyway. I figure, if the writer doesn’t like them, I could just go back over the entire book and fix them. I don’t know; I like them. (I don’t know. I like them.) 😅

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ElwoodBlues · M

I'm a big fan of semicolons; I use them to sorta join two connected sentences. Or, if I've got a list of a,b, and c; and also a list of g, h, and j; then I can separate the two lists conveniently with a semicolon.

Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

@ElwoodBlues Those are the times when they really clean a sentence up.