Writing in Re'verse'

In Sulekha, the site where I blog, when a Blogger, posted an exclusive kind of UK advertisement for publishing (in poetry), I was so amazed with its unique pattern that it felt quite challenging to write a similar kind. Of course poetry is no rocket science. Even if it was, since we cannot aim to seek a career in NASA, the least we can try is to launch a literary missile through the science of verse :-}

The entire poem is in two parts. Where the first part ends, the second immediately begins. The tricky part however is that the lines have a mirror effect (they are exactly the same) but in the second part they have to be read backwards. Needless to say, even the reverse reading has to make sense ;-}

The theme of this poem is as old as rhyme. It is about ‘writing’.



I write
I think

Therefore
I cannot not but brush my thoughts
And to daub the world with brighter hues
I cannot just but mull

I also try to touch
the pulse of mankind
with the fingers of my soul

I try to hear
the silence of peace
in the combat bells that toll

I try to smell
the perfumed fragrance of love
in the stench of hatred’s scent

I try to see
the magic of reason
in the warped face of nonsense

I also try to taste
the hunger and the strife
in the delicious flavours of life

Therefore

like a wheel within a wheel
when all my senses reel
I cannot not but feel

Famished

Now folks, here's the same poem but in reverse gear....:-}


Famished

I cannot not but feel
when all my senses reel
like a wheel within a wheel

Therefore

in the delicious flavours of life
the hunger and the strife
I also try to taste

in the warped face of nonsense
the magic of reason
I try to see

In the stench of hatred’s scent
the perfumed fragrance of love
I try to smell

in the combat bells that toll
the silence of peace
I try to hear

with the fingers of my soul
the pulse of mankind
I also try to touch

I cannot just but mull
And to daub the world with brighter hues
I cannot not but brush my thoughts

Therefore
I think
I write :-}



(originally posted in sulekha.com)