You lot are no fun asleep :))))

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You lot are no fun asleep :))))
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Thu, 10-02-2003 - 1:25am
Just sitting here "playing" and thinking how nice it would be is someone was awake right now. I am very glad you are not though, 'cause Hugs always needs some sleep and hopefully she is, Golly SHOULD be getting some sleep by now and well, the rest of you sweet dreams! Nah, not cracking up. It is raining outside so just found this. I love words and the use of language. Seriously if you are not asleep now, you will be after reading this HA!!! So, if you get bored easily don't go any further. I just had nothing to do! Hilary


Line-Unit Palindrome Poem

The following poem reads from the first line to the last as it does from the last to the first. It was written by James A. Lindon and was first published in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language (1967).

Entering the lonely house with my wife

I saw him for the first time

Peering furtively from behind a bush –

Blackness that moved,

A shape amid the shadows,

A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes

Revealed in the ragged moon.

A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have

Put him to flight forever –

I dared not

(For reasons that I failed to understand),

Though I knew I should act at once.

I puzzled over it, hiding alone,

Watching the woman as she neared the gate.

He came, and I saw him crouching

Night after night.

Night after night

He came, and I saw him crouching,

Watching the woman as she neared the gate.

I puzzled over it, hiding alone –

Though I knew I should act at once,

For reasons that I failed to understand

I dared not

Put him to flight forever.

A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have

Revealed in the ragged moon

A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes

A shape amid the shadows,

Blackness that moved.

Peering furtively from behind a bush,

I saw him, for the first time

Entering the lonely house with my wife.




Edited 10/2/2003 1:39:45 AM ET by peskygirl1

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Thu, 10-02-2003 - 1:41am
Well that sent Golly to bed Hilary
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 6:22am
Well very interesting to say the least ..
*Hannah* is a palindrome too
That's also a story

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 10:25am

>>Just sitting here "playing" and thinking how nice it would be is someone was awake right now.
Aww, well the weekend's coming and sometimes there's more up and about then. :)

**Gosh, scrolling from top to bottom to top to bottom to::::yawn::::
I think I got up too early, I'm getting sleepy again. ;) lol.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 9:26pm

Thanks for sharing that with us Hilary~


I never knew that a poem like that