This poem is in the form of a WHOLE WORD PALINDROME. What this means (in plain English) is that amazingly it reads the same if you start at the last word and work backwards. The major problem is writing it in such a way that the second half of the poem has to make sense. The lines in the middle are inversions of each other. These are lines 4 & 5 which complement lines 6 & 7 because this is a Twelve Line Poem. Look at verse TWO and you will see what I mean. If you want to see longer (and much more perfect Palindromic Poems) look at Patricia Masterman. It is importnat for all PH POETS to experiement with the structure and form of their poems. All Patricia's Poems are perfect!
Where to go - to search the answer?
Earth or Heaven or local mountain
On sitting atop meditating monklike.
I would like to grasp the answer.
I am going to University next week
It will then be too too late.
Late too too be then will it?
Week next University to going am I.
Answer the grasp to like would I
Monklike meditating atop sitting on
Mountain local or Heaven or Earth
Answer the search to go to where?
A Palindromic Poem should not just be verbal gymnastics - the Poem should still carry a message.
For that you will have to be Judge
Judge be to have will you that for!
This style is catching!
(John Knight - Colchester - October 2009)
What a charming poem. Somehow in a palindrome poem the sentences, though reversed, seem to echo the beginning lines; no matter at all that they have been completely reversed. And this poem genuinely reflects just such a thing. I am always amazed all over again by every single palindrome poem I read, no exception here. Loved that it all starts with a question.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
a bright idea, I used to read Palindromic words or numbers but poem it's for the first time Thanks for sharing! an interesting done!