Its May 1st 2015, or 5-1-15 (5115).
And so, a palindromic poem:
Baited Breath
Exhale no inhale
Bag over head
I didn’t understand
Questions thoughts, unaddressed
Fear bubbles, darkness decays
Blackness surrounding
Pain in extremities
Gasping controlled
Everything means nothing
Life, abated
——
Abated life
Nothing means everything
Controlled gasping
Extremities in pain
Surrounding blackness
Decays, darkness, bubbles fear
Unadressed thoughts, questions
Understand, didn’t I?
Head over bag
Inhale no exhale
Breath Baited
9 comments
This is a very nice poem, although isn’t it the same thing with just different syntax?
Err, well its a palindrome or ‘mirrored poem’? I don’t quite get what you are asking 😀
I meant it has an identical meaning, the words are just interchanged
Ah, well, in a way it is supposed to represent a failed attempt with a bag. The first half is the attempt, the 2nd when it fails/you decide to live. But I agree, you have to squint to see that.
Things build up, you pass out, sure of death. For whatever reason, you reach the 2nd part, nothing has changed, but things seem flipped. You realize you want to answer those questions, those thoughts. And with “Understand, didn’t I”. Thinking maybe you have the answers, maybe you do understand. You realize nothing has changed, your thoughts merely interchanged. Do they still have identical meaning? You want to find out… So you take off the bag (Head over bag) and take a deep breath…
But yeah, its quite squinty.
BTW, i will be accepting demerits for it/it’s….
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama
(Now read it backwards).
Jesus said backwards sounds like sausage, coincidence? I don’t think so, everything happens for a reason.
This is brilliant, ceph. Anything to add, Yoda?
Yoda: Add to anything? Ceph, brilliant is this!
Hehe, you guys are all great!