NOT STRICTLY POETRY BUT...

[david birkett]

I'm a great fan of palindromes, and thought it would be fun to share those created by the teemingly creative people who populate this Forum. Of course there's no guarantee one's formulatios are original (is there a webiste?) but here's a slightly suggestive one to get the ball rolling....


FLOW TO HER ORE, HOT WOLF

[Christopher T. George]

Hi David

Interesting palindrome. I am not aware whether there is any website devoted to palindromes, although since there seems to be a website for everything else, I am sure there probably is one out there!

All my best

Chris

[Diane]

Great idea, David. That was a fun exercise. Here's two I came up with:

Pagan I, deified in a gap.

Dog's Moor rooms God.

I'll have to explain the second one. It is about Dartmoor, a beautiful moorland area of southwest England. Hound of the Baskevilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was set there.

Diane

[Diane]

After that exercise, I felt a pome coming on, one that starts and ends with each of my palindromes:


Pagan I

Pagan I, deified in a gap,
my palindrominous abode.
A cleft in the Rock of Eden
houses my nomadic longing.
A howl plays backwards, the moon falls,
I am lost, and the dog's moor rooms god.

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I fear I may have invented the word 'palindrominous'.

Idea for line three nicked from "Rock of Ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee." And also Charles Causley wrote the poem "Eden Rock" about Dartmoor.

What does anyone reckon?

Diane

[mat james]

What "gap" are you talking about?

nomadic longing
howling as the moon falls
naked in eden
cleft and lost...

It all sounds so darkly sensual to me.
I love it

[Diane]

Mat! I had not forseen that interpretation. The rocks typical of Datmoor's Tors have many clefts where you might take shelter. I was thinking of some 'higher' experience. I like the extra layer of meaning you have given it though.

Thanks for commenting.

Diane