Four Poems

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Four poems this week. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing either The Robots of Babylon or my new omnibus edition Knit Ink (and Other Poems).)

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This first poem, a triolet in iambic tetrameter, repeatedly anagrams the line “She walks in beauty, like the night” (Happy Birthday Week, Byron!):

ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR BYRON

She walks in beauty, like the night
(the bleak eye, knit with Luna’s sigh).
Beneath hues talking silky white,
she walks in beauty, like the night.
In blue haste wakes the inky light,
with haunting sky the lakes belie.
She walks in beauty — like the night
the bleak eye knit, with Luna’s sigh....

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THE LAWYER (Palindrome)

O, dissent!
I wall a citadel.
Urge bites, 
liable.
Bill, law — 
all libel.
Bail set, 
I beg....
Ruled at, 
I call a witness, 
I do.

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TRANSMOGRIFICATION (Anagrammed Lines)

Transmogrification!
Instigator for manic
magic — for transition.
Strict origin of a man
arising into cat form....

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CELLAR (Palindrome-Haiku)

Oh, cellar! Evoke
esoteric ire — to seek,
overall, echo....