Three Poems (Aelindromes)

Hello friends,

Three aelindromes this week! The last one is a new one. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing my new book The Robots of Babylon.)

The aelindrome is a constraint I invented several years back. An aelindrome structures its letters according to a numerical palindrome. For example, the phrase “Melody, a bloody elm” is an aelindrome structured by the sequence 1234321: [m]₁ [el]₂ [ody]₃ [a blo]₄ [ody]₃ [el]₂ [m]₁ (“Melody, a bloody elm”).

By convention, aelindromes are said to be “in” the forward half of their numerical palindrome (up to and including its pivot). Thus, “Melody, a bloody elm” is an aelindrome in 1234.

SOLSTICE (Aelindrome in Pi to 13 digits)
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Solstice:
new, it evokes
old needs
and raw senses.

Sun rids us:
what binds us 
bids us.

What sunrise saw
sends and reevokes.

Old, new…
it entices Sol.

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FOR THE OLDER POEMS (Aelindrome in the Square Root of 2 to 20 digits)
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The art,
a losing sun,
as she emerges,
only a swan 
to her suffering,
may be dark 
as turns of sky.

Do seas turn
so dark, maybe,
suffering her 
as wantonly?

So, emerge as she —
sung in a lost heart.

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THE PLAINS (Aelindrome in the Square Root of 3 to 18 digits)
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Hazy heat wallowed.

Beasts had owed the plains
time’s pantomime:
crows begging the moon;
sins adoring sins.

A moon singing,
the crows began to mime.

Time’s plains
wed the past,

shadowed
below
a lazy heath.