Five Poems

Hello friends,

Five small poems this week. Enjoy!

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FILM NOIR (Palindrome)

Prepare trope résumé:

Mad, arid antihero.

Man in a motel,
at a femme fatale,
to man in a more hit nadir.

A dame,
muse,
reporter —
a perp.

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FOR BASHO (Palindrome-Haiku)

Loop a tag or fog.
Oh, sable, we jewel Basho.
Go, frog at a pool!

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BEOWULF (Anagrammed Lines)

Reading Beowulf,
I frowned. A bugle
blew a ruined fog.
"Go, run!" I fled a web —
fragile, unbowed....

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HYMN (Palindrome)

We dye
no hymn
in words.

Drab bards drown
in my honeydew.

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BOTTLED POEM (Alternating Bivocalism*)

One bottled poem
holds
the other close.

(*uses only two vowels, o and e, which alternate throughout.)