Palindromes and other ludic constructions // Japanese translator
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DEATH OF A PALINDROMIST
See, still as mirror reset,
a torso golden.
Words sap, mock,
cut me open.
Old as a tide,
I edit a sad, lone poem,
tuck compass.
Drowned Logos rotates.
Error rims all it sees.
#palindrome
Steven Fraser retweeted
Belatedly for #NationalProofreadingDay --
How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?
Too
Gold Era (palindrome)
A red log
A pansy tied
A garden mad
A flower up
A drowsy lilac
A lily sword
A pure wolf
A damned rag
A deity's nap
A gold era
Thanks to @dastulika for bringing my cartoon to life so colourfully, and for cleverly transforming one of the gnats into a half-lemon, half-gnat visual palindrome: tangy gnat!
Now that I have recovered from my palindrome bypass surgery, I may just go back to Xcreting spoonerisms here.
'Mad in the glow' meant glad in the moment.
#spoonerism
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The moment Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for her novel Orbital and dedicates the award to earth and peace.
Catch up with the ceremony broadcast live on Front Row with @samiraahmeduk on @bbcsounds now 🎧
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Enola Gay (palindrome)
“Enola’s in,”
a monk said.
I ask,
“No medic?”
“One grey ash, too sere,”
monk said.
I ask,
“No man is alive?”
“Evil. A sin,”
a monk said.
I ask no mere soothsayer,
“Genocide?”
“ …. “
monk said.
I ask,
“No man is alone?”
#palindrome
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Fall (palindrome)
Lear sits,
old, a maniac,
sees tired, lost, pure garden.
Madder Eve fades, pales.
Tin empires abase, rip men.
It’s elapsed—
A fevered, damned rage rupts.
Older, it sees Cain,
a mad, lost Israel.
Migratory Motions of My Greater Emotions (palindrome)
Mood tides, send as ESP
any Speed;
spiral, lift serotonin;
let up warm saps;
trap misery gyres;
impart spasm raw;
put El Niño to rest;
fill a rip’s deep synapse sadness;
edit doom.
Mass of Cygnus X-1 (palindrome)
Slang is sung, Y-class imago.
Listen–
No song of a swan.
Gamma G-spots warp,
suck radii.
Dark cusp, raw, stops.
Gamma gnaws.
A fog–
No sonnets I log.
A missal Cygnus signals.
Cygnus X-1 is a black hole in the constellation Cygnus (and also an epic two-part song by Rush).
A missal is a liturgical book containing the texts needed for celebrating the Mass. So in this 'drome the black hole celebrates its own massive mass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus…
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SCRABBLEGRAM* OF THE DAY
The Moon (a sonnet)
Happy International Moon Day! 🌕🌛🎉
55 years ago today, the Apollo 11 crew landed the Eagle on the moon.
*Uses each of the 100 Scrabble tiles (x4).
#moon, #MoonDay, #InternationalMoonDay, #Apollo11, #scrabble
ALT O faithful moon in heaven's silver sea, Our prized eternal geologic bride, You wax or wane adjusting ocean tide, Eclipsing pools of dark tranquility. Next daybreak came with no apology, Again I wait while you above me hide, A dim RSVP from back inside A quiet rendezvous trajectory. At dusk once more inexorably rise, Just up above horizon's water-edge, Reflecting in a wave of liquid light. Expect me in a violet sunset haze, Abandon me all day but I won't judge, Forgive a day's prerequisite for night. Blanks = C, D, H, I, N, S, V, and Y
Hadron the Collider (palindrome)
No sober arc, I'm so clever.
I part (not!) or probe.
Was all its wonder, its noise
but a dog fossil (bon mot!);
an atom no bliss of god;
a tube's ions?
Tired now, still as a web
or proton trap,
I revel−
Cosmic, rare boson!
Gnats, ‘tis prawn omelette!
Lemon warps its tang.
(Palindrome that would be enhanced by a cartoon image of gnat leader and swarm encountering a prawn omelette with lemon. If only I could draw!)
Planning the Punishments in Room 101 (palindrome)
Sunak’s a classy bastard!
New end: rats, abyssal cask, anus.
#palindrome #SunakLiar