Five Poems

Dec 11, 2023

Hello friends,

Five short poems this week. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider purchasing The Robots of Babylon — your support would mean a lot to me.)

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NO SONNET (Palindrome)

Never, ever:
often no song....
No sonnet 
forever, even.

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LIPOGRAMS (uses l, i, p, o, g, r, a, m, & s only)

A glossarial
origami, prim as glass,
rolls a lipogram.

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WIND-UP TOY (Anagrammed Lines)

This wind-up toy
wound its pithy
sound with pity.

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TOWER OF BABEL (Palindrome)

Emote ways 
words garble, 
Babel.

A tale, 
Babel brags 
drowsy awe 
to me.

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GHOST STORY (Anagram-Haiku)

I find your strange ghost
out in the fog, in dry grass —
Grief haunts dying roots.

Anthony Etherin Poetry