I went on a palindrome kick several years ago and wrote a series of palindrome poems. These are word-to-word palindromes, not the letter-to-letter kind most people are familiar with. I should note that I was deliberately trying to write along several different themes. I point this out as some of them are quite dark in tone, though others are more cheerful or romantic. They don't actually represent what I was thinking or feeling at the time they were written. I haven't bothered to group them by theme.

Palindrome Poems

You are so beautiful.
Are doves white?
Yes, and birds of beauty.
The shade-you shade the beauty of birds.
And yes, white doves are beautiful.
So are you.

Thunder rolling
And clouds gathering
ominously.
Beware fury of God.
A man is
deadly-
Nature his enemy
Bringing
Death.
Earth's death-bringing enemy,
his nature
deadly,
Is man a god of fury?
Beware ominously
gathering clouds
And rolling thunder.

Damn pants ripped.
My last pair.
This will
cost.
The suffering
unbearable.
Shopping-personal hell.
(Is hell
personal?)
Shopping-unbearable suffering.
The
cost!
Will this pair last?
My ripped
pants.
Damn.

Kiss
A love incarnate
Passion's physical embrace
Your lips, your caress, your words,
Your embrace,
Physical passion's incarnate love.
A kiss.

Words
Cold and dark
Your voice venomous and condescending
Your hate seething
Am I angry?
I am seething.
Hate your condescending and venomous voice.
Your dark and cold words.

Presents wrapped by children
Delight Mother and Father
Christmas at home, of comfort and cheer,
brings selflessness of spirit.
The gifts secondary-things material
Family and friends are gifts remembered best.
The excitement building-
"Wait, children! Santa comes here tonight!"
"Here comes Santa!"
Children wait, building excitement.
The best remembered gifts are friends and family.
Material things-secondary gifts.
The spirit of selflessness brings cheer and comfort of home.
At Christmas, mother and father delight children
by wrapped presents.

Waiting,
Here am I, sitting quietly
People all around
Look alone; not lonely as you.
Are you with someone?
Join me-
Someone with you.
Are you as lonely?
Not alone, look around-
All people sitting quietly.
I am here waiting.

Cuts hair-
Bad career choice.
Your scissors chopping aimlessly.
Your hands shaking,
My scalp bleeding profusely.
My head shaved,
One side bald,
other an afro.
Shave afro, an
Other bald side.
One shaved head.
My profusely bleeding scalp!
My shaking hands!
Your aimlessly chopping scissors.
Your choice career-
Bad hair cuts.

Hate to love
Emotions burning passionately.
My control losing its grip-
Reality's fading.
My clouded mind invited
The necessary love of convenience
Ending Loneliness.
But darkening emotions settled in, spreading fury.
Hateful fury
Spreading in settled emotions
Darkening, but loneliness ending
Convenience of love necessary
The invited mind clouded my fading reality's grip.

"Come to me," calls Death.
"you are no one."
"I am!"
"Passing unmissed, friends have forsaken,
The purpose lost."
I listen-you will not care.
"Who," people ask, "is that worthless, ugly creature?
A ghost, or a spectre?"
I am worthless, am I?
Spectre, or ghost-
A creature-
Ugly, that is.
Ask people who care not.
Will *you* listen?
I lost purpose.
The forsaken have friends unmissed
Passing
Am I one?
No!
"Are you?"
Death calls me to come.

Resolutions
Year's new promises
Broken often, but made religiously.
Your intentions good, but unattainable.
The effects positive; nonetheless, having goals unreachable,
Your effort counts.
Character counts effort,
Your unreachable goals having nonetheless positive effects.
The unattainable but good intentions,
Your religiously made but often broken promises,
New Year's resolutions.

Pain screams out
Soul and heart wrenched
Treachery!
Your heart cold
And soul dark.
A reason given-
The frivolity of emotions.
Love and passion-passion and love.
Emotions of frivolity.
The given reason-
A dark soul and cold heart.
Your treachery wrenched heart and soul.
Out screams pain.

Flower,
Beautiful yet wild.
My smiles make you laugh
The love I know
Angels now understand.
Can I touch your skin?
Your touch-
I can understand now.
"Angels know I love the laugh you make!" smiles my wild
yet beautiful flower.

End the pain-
After darkness entered, I lost hope.
My desire is death.
Meeting death is desire.
My hope lost, I entered darkness.
After pain, the end.

Despair clouds Thought
My Mind reaches-
Hope elusive, Peace escapes.
Sleep, my darkened soul! my thought is death.
But death is thought;
My soul darkened, my sleep escapes.
Peace elusive, Hope reaches Mind
My Thought clouds despair.

Intelligence mocks life as shallow, meaningless.
In Fall comes death
Ends life-all for nothing.
Do you believe Life follows Life?
Mind fears 'no',
But hearts cry 'Yes!'
"Come, all," waits Death.
Powerless.
Death waits.
All come.
"Yes!" cry hearts, but "No!" fears Mind.
Life follows life - believe.
You do nothing-for all life ends
Death comes-fall in meaningless shadow
As Life mocks
Intelligence.

Will iron break?
The temptations creep in.
Soul burning, though fighting.
My effort vain
A Battle beyond strength.
Desire overwhelming virtue.
Overwhelming desire.
Strength beyond battle-
A vain effort, my fighting burning soul.
In creep temptations,
then break iron will.