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Kalyope
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posted November 11, 2006 08:15 PM      Profile for Kalyope   Email Kalyope   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The palindrome.

As you may well know, a palindrome is a word that is the same both forwards and backwards, i.e. noon, mom, pup, etc.

Your challenge is to create a poem in this same vein. Each word does not need to be a palindrome. Instead, the whole poem itself should be one.

Example:

Never Even

Shore
greets ocean,
quietly lapping waves.
Moonlight reflecting
water's surface,
rising moon embraces
...tranquility...
embraces moon rising,
surface waters
reflecting moonlight.
Waves lapping quietly,
ocean greets
shore.


The title of the poem 'Never Even' is a palindrome, as is the poem. The line 'tranquility' serves as the transition point.

Good luck to you. I look forward to being wowed

[ November 11, 2006 08:24 PM: Message edited by: Kalyope ]

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posted November 15, 2006 12:57 AM      Profile for Hannibal   Author's Homepage   Email Hannibal   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This is hard.

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WORD & VOICE ---Bad ass board--- Lovely poetry

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

...foolish is he who calls anyplace home...

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious...

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I wil write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always, I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

It's not a matter of caring,
It's a matter of letting go of everything you care about.


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Kalyope
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posted November 15, 2006 07:22 PM      Profile for Kalyope   Email Kalyope   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yeah, I know. It took me three or four tries to get the one that I posted as an example to work...without sounding really corny. Good luck

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