Three Poems

Hello friends,

Three poems this time, including a brand new one, written under a constraint combination never before tested.

First, a quick note that my latest music, PET A RAT EP, is now both available for purchase and FREE on YouTube. Punk-ish palindromes composed using a backmasking technique. Details here.

These first two poems were inspired by the story of Lady Godiva. The first is a palindrome (one of my personal favourites, among my work) and the second is a perfect anagram of this palindrome.

GODIVA (Palindrome)
 
Avid ogles made no garb....
I met sadness, elated a rapid idyll.

A colt — eyed, untied — ordered no witness.

Eyes sent,
I wondered,
rode it nude,
yet locally did I parade....

Tales send a stem, I brag —
One damsel: Godiva.

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GODIVA (Anagram of Palindrome)
 
A dare sets eyes
and sends revolution....

Immodest or lowly,
I am legally loosed,
in protestation.

I ride a city,
undressed on a steed —
gadded, geed....

I discredit a levy,
demanding a law
and a debt be repealed.

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Sticking with the folklore theme, this new poem — a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter — is a consonant palindrome; that is, the consonants are palindromic, but the vowels are not.

ROBIN HOOD

A dale. A look of fire. A host of bows.
A slow July lay dull. I passed one maid
a rose, aglow in poetries or prose —
and stole the gold of lords, amid the glade.

To fight a law, our foe, I rob the rich.
I snub the sworn award for all to see.
A tax on life sends arrows to a ditch.
A city, due its worries, dines — I flee,

anxiety still rife. I draw; I near....
I wish to banish, cure a hate I bore:
For wealthy, gifted light, a doom is dear —
aloof delight, lit so, denies our poor.

See ore atop new logs or diamonds spilled!
All jewels, I saw, befit a sheriff killed.