Here, There be a Writer: palindrome poem

Monday, October 22, 2018

OctPoWriMo Day #22: (betrayal)

Poetic Form: Palindrome Poem is a poem that read forwards and backwards while still conveying a meaning and purpose within the poem. Each line in the first half of the poem is mirrored in the second half of the poem.

I have written a lot of personal poetry this month, and though the admission of betrayal, whether of self, or another, I want to stick to a generic revelation, and a betrayal within the revelation. A palindrome seems most fitting as you can reading it forwards and backwards, and still get the same idea. Because like revelations and betrayal, sometimes they can be read, discovered going forward, or going back.

How's that for a deep subject, Dear Readers?

Seriously, this poem took a while to grow, and I reeeeeeeally wanted to use the palindrome poem as the form for today's poem. I hope you get something out of it.

I also took a liberty, and used different tenses in the beginning and ending of the poem. I think you'll see why...

Word prompt: betrayal, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, lying

Alternate word prompts: forgiveness, mercy, grace, loyalty, honesty

Inner Voice Says Forgiven

Speak!

Have you known

there is fear,

nothing is greater.

Deception-

your own self.

~Revelation~

Self, own your

deception;

greater is nothing.

Fear is there,

knew you have

Spoken!

Forgiven, says Voice Inner

Friday, April 3, 2015

Mmmmmm Coffee!!

I will usually attempt the day's topic/prompt, but I just couldn't settle on a fourteener. A fourteener is a poem with an indeterminate number of lines, but each line has 14 syllables. This style can be done in iambic pentameter or not. That means either 7 iambic feet (2 syllable that contain a stressed and unstressed note) or 14 syllables. I am not opposed, but wanted something different.

So...

Over at Shadow Poetry I found a Palindrome Poem (also called a mirrored poem). And I and going to combine my NaPoWriMo poem and my A to Z post about the letter "C" and write about coffee. I am rather fond of coffee, sometimes to me detriment. As once a fellow writer during 24 Hour Theatre wrote a show that mentioned my love of coffee as a running gag. Okay, I am not mean, but when your rehearsing your show and you shout "Sara promised me coffee!" and your friend and fellow director looks over at your group (while she is rehearsing her group) it got quite interesting. Oh well, it was fun!! And I still love Mama T!! ~wink wink~

Prompt: Coffee

Not my strongest poem ever, but it's my first crack at trying this style. Might even try more down the road.

A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward. It stems from the Greek word palindromos: palin, meaning again, and dromos, meaning a running. Combining the two together, the Greek meaning gives us, running back again...

Coffee Thoughts

Aroma

Mixing gently

Within sunshine

Variable constants

Push away and morning breaks

Awareness birthed again

Life celebrates day

Only after eyes sees cup

Then breathing

~Refreshing~

Breathing then

Cup sees eyes after only

Day celebrates life

Again birthed awareness

Breaks morning and away push

Constants variable

Sunshine within

Gently mixing

Aroma

Anyway, this leads me to my other half of the post, coffee cups. I have amassed a small army of coffee and tea cups over the years. So much so that I DO NOT WANT OR NEED MOAR CUPS. I say to my friends lovingly. If you go traveling get me a postcard , or maybe a rock, or beach glass, but no more coffee cups. This is why. And in an hommage to Dinosaur Dracula who did a blitz of the rather more eclectic coffee cups out there, including some of his own. I present mine here:

This is part of a 4 cup set from McDonald's in the 1980's. DO have the whole set too!

Left: a little bit from my home town. Right: mt 3-D wolf mug (with broken paw).

Left: Enough said! Right: from Ithaca, NY

Theatre mug with pictures of my various roles in and around 2012.

A safety mug from Denny's. Classy!!

Doing the safety jive in 2005!

BEATLES!

Left: Neat homemade mug from a flea market in Avon, NY. Right: A little bit of the Crystal City from me to you.

My tea cups. Found both in Salvation Army stores in sets of 4. Anyone want a tea party?

The left side was made in London and the right side in Japan.