Anthony Etherin

OWL (Palindrome)

Too held in its tide,
tan, a meek owl woke,
emanated its tin, idle hoot.

QUARANTINE (Sonnet)

Her eyes were red.
Her flesh and hair
were thin. The air
was thick with dread.
No hero, led
by love, was there
to scale that bare
and fragile thread.
For better truths,
our stories lied:
a broken flower,
the sickly youth
Rapunzel died
inside that tower.

Thanks!

OWL (Palindrome)

Too held in its tide,
tan, a meek owl woke,
emanated its tin, idle hoot.

That's interesting! Do you have an example?

WORD FACT

A “kenning” is a compound word in which a commonplace noun is described figuratively. Kennings were very popular in Old English and Old Norse poetry.

Well-known examples include:

Whale-road → sea or ocean

Bone-house → body

Sky-candle → sun

Battle-sweat → blood

WORD FACT

A “kenning” is a compound word in which a commonplace noun is described figuratively. Kennings were very popular in Old English and Old Norse poetry.

Well-known examples include:

Whale-road → sea or ocean

Bone-house → body

Sky-candle → sun

Battle-sweat → blood

QUARANTINE (Sonnet)

Her eyes were red.
Her flesh and hair
were thin. The air
was thick with dread.
No hero, led
by love, was there
to scale that bare
and fragile thread.
For better truths,
our stories lied:
a broken flower,
the sickly youth
Rapunzel died
inside that tower.

Dairy, mayonnaise sub.... Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad.

#palindrome

Dairy, mayonnaise sub.... Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad.

#palindrome

INTERNATIONAL SHEEP (Palindrome by Pairs)

A nice ram and ewe,
asleep,

teasing songs
in a steeple.

A Swede.
An American.

WORD FACT

“Scamper” ultimately comes from Latin “ex campo” — literally, “leave the field (of battle, for instance)”. “Campo” as “field” also gives us the modern English word “campus”.

So, we could say that to scamper is to “leave campus”.

WORD FACT

“Scamper” ultimately comes from Latin “ex campo” — literally, “leave the field (of battle, for instance)”. “Campo” as “field” also gives us the modern English word “campus”.

So, we could say that to scamper is to “leave campus”.

INTERNATIONAL SHEEP (Palindrome by Pairs)

A nice ram and ewe,
asleep,

teasing songs
in a steeple.

A Swede.
An American.

A secret great idea or one you can share?

WORD FACT

A “psithurism” is the sound of a tree’s rustling leaves. It comes from Greek “psithurízō” (ψιθυρίζω), which means “I whisper”.

How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb?

One, no?

WORD FACT

A “psithurism” is the sound of a tree’s rustling leaves. It comes from Greek “psithurízō” (ψιθυρίζω), which means “I whisper”.

How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb?

One, no?

DEMON (Palindrome by Pairs)

One mad
demand
made a demon.

INTERSTELLAR WILD (Anagrams)

We speak of the interstellar wild
like we aren’t part of it. She dwells
in we who still sparkle—a fettered,
skeletal star. We flow in her tepid
earth, like weeds, patterns of will
personified. We talk, shatter well—
written like Death’s pale flowers.

WORD FACT

Calypso, apocalypse, and eucalyptus are related, sharing the Greek root “kalyptō” (to cover, conceal).

Calypso — “she who conceals”, since in Homer’s Odyssey she keeps Odysseus hidden on her island

[1/2]

Apocalypse — from apo- (away from) -kalyptō (to cover) → removal of the cover, a revelation

Eucalyptus — from eu- (well) -kalyptos (covered), named for the covering on the bud

[2/2]

WORD FACT

Calypso, apocalypse, and eucalyptus are related, sharing the Greek root “kalyptō” (to cover, conceal).

Calypso — “she who conceals”, since in Homer’s Odyssey she keeps Odysseus hidden on her island

[1/2]

DEMON (Palindrome by Pairs)

One mad
demand
made a demon.

INTERSTELLAR WILD (Anagrams)

We speak of the interstellar wild
like we aren’t part of it. She dwells
in we who still sparkle—a fettered,
skeletal star. We flow in her tepid
earth, like weeds, patterns of will
personified. We talk, shatter well—
written like Death’s pale flowers.

LADY OF THE LAKE (Triolet)

A triolet in anapaestic tetrameter, with alliterative beats in each hemistich (all lines rhyming):

Define my ego:
Obese boogeymen I fed.

#palindrome

Nicely done!