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slipee
03-30-2012, 10:37 AM
I saw the poetry quiz thread the other day which contained reversible poems.
Being new to the forum I missed this by... 4 years! LOL
But it inspired me to do one, so if anybody else has that unsatisfied urge to create one as well, please reply to this thread.

Deliver

Again blood drawn; life over sword
worthlessly pleading victims of majority
unspoken word cloaks duress
Unruly and unjust, punishment is determined
judge not, will I?
everything but nothing, cause and effect
action and consequence
becoming ultimately inescapable
It is history repeating

Repeating history is it
inescapable, ultimately becoming
consequence and action?
Effect and cause, nothing but everything
I will not judge
Determined is punishment, unjust and unruly
duress cloaks word unspoken
majority of victims pleading worthlessly
Sword over life; drawn blood again...

Reviled

Delta40
03-30-2012, 06:32 PM
Very clever. I haven't thought of doing that before. Once I looked closely at the poem, I thought of ways of improving it through the use of structure and punctuation however, kudos to you for taking up the challenge!

slipee
03-31-2012, 12:06 AM
Thanks :)
Yes I definitely make punctual errors, and probably silly ones at that. Feel free to correct my mistakes - I haven't studied English since school (a long time ago) and Art college was all about visual communication to which my assignments always seemed to slip through unscrutinised. My lessons have been exclusively from M$ Word and Open Office!
In regards to poetry I am very much a novice, but I occasionally write song lyrics or short philosophical passages.
It keeps me entertained~