Palindrome Poems

Boredom for me tends to breed bad ideas and creative genius. Recently, I decided to look into different forms of poetry. I've always been a fan of the Spoken Word style, and wanted to know just how many ways in which one would be able to wax poetic If they were so inclined.

Within moments of using the worlds greatest source of factual information, Wikipedia(*rimshot*), I learned that there is approximately a buttload of poetry genres/forms. There's prose, Sonnets, Satirical, Narrative, etc. Each has it's own long and somewhat tiring history that I won't get into here.

one of the more interesting forms of poetry I learned about in my quest for inspiration is the Palindrome. Palindromes are are poems that read the same forward and backward. It's cool because you could half ass a palindrome, and still end up with something pretty deep.

Not as deep as that water puddle you misjudged and almost drowned in as a kid, but deep none the less.

Reading up on Palindromes and checking out a few examples would occupy the "creative genius" I mentioned at the beginning. The bad idea comes when I attempted to sixteen to twenty line story that would(hopefully) make sense from beginning to end.

Coming up with such an idea means I broke the cardinal rule of spectatorship: Never assume you could succeed at a high level after watching others do so. Such foolishness is what you see and hear from kids after playing a video game. They all hat to make their own GTA/Gears/Halo clone, but don't know how to spell properly and suck at math.

It's like people buying expensive golf equipment and thinking they would be as good as Tiger, without having to practice. It's like Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson challenging Phelps after the Olympics. It's like Michael Jordan thing he could channel Bo Jackson and play Baseball.

In short: It was silly to think I would be able to do a long, and fairly intricate palindrome without a few short attempts first. after about an hour and a half, I exclaimed "fluck this..." and watched funny flash movies on Newgrounds.

A few days later I had an epiphany. At least, I thought it was an epiphany. It turned out to be indigestion. After downing an ant-acid after my third taco I came up with an idea. If I was to come up with a palindrome, I would first need to get into the right mindset.

How would I go about doing that/ At first, I thought listing to some of my favorite rap and rock songs backward. I abandoned that idea because it sounded stupid when said aloud. That whole subliminal message gimmick never did catch on. And if I wanted to hear nonsensical gibberish, I'd buy the entire Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz' discography.

The following are three of the seven or so Palindromes I was able to come up with. The other four either make no sense forward or backward, or they are the wisest, facemeltingly deep lines of text any man has ever come up with. I can't decide which at the moment.

integrity is what matters
nothing lasts, nothing
matters, what is integrity?

Love defeats hatred when hatred defeats love.

Life is simplicity because simplicity is life.