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Any kind form or shape - you're welcome to come! Also non-BB topics will do very nicely!
[Hopefully without me getting up people's noses this time around. I'll keep a low(er) profile to that end indeed ...]

Brian DID mention "a Teenage SYMPHONY TO God" (=SMiLE), actually. But since there was some kind of libretto involved, why not call it an opera?
Exactly what did he have in mind? We only need to read his (revised) message backwards to find out - in the following haiku-palindrome: An opera á la 'The Tales of [E.T.A.] Hoffmann'?:
 :bw
>'A Teenage Opera

To God? DO got "arepo"!

E.g.: an e-E.T.A.'<

Limerick-palindrome RE-devellopped from >Mr.K/SkRm<:

>Sex-e-PALINDROMES unite GODs EXes

An integral EVIL -- flexes

Ex-elf: LIVE LargE-t¤nin

AS "EXes" DO-GET-IN!

Use M.O.Rd.  ~  nil APEXes!<

What are you smoking? :hat

>A 'smok' - I ?

"Smokin", I ??

Komsi-komsa!!<

Well played sir! :lol

A haiku-palindRHYME dedicated to the late Merle Haggard (& to Beach Boys` version of his Muskogee-song):

>A smOKI' [smok'd] FROM

MUSKOKEE?  EEK!  Ok-SUM:

Morf'd? = `komSI-KOMsa' ...<

Is this 'haiku'? It isn't something I've been familiar with as haiku... it'd be fun if I could read it-can someone read it for me, though :)

Here's another one of them KRAPPY! Haiku+/palindromes, I'm afraid ...
And this is why I DIDN't want the move to THE SANDBOX (Brian's Dogs!):
 :bw
>*Louie* - *Banana* ...

+ Sandbox; o *B*-DNAs !

A 'nana' be I: "U'~o' *L*. !"<

In the following utter madness, I'll try my darndest to prove MATHEMATICALLY! what a doubled or SQUARED Haiku-palindrhyme adds up to ...
[the topix being: On Top Of Old Smokey(SMiLE-era)/Smokey Joes Cafe(Party)/Okie From Muskogee(live)]
A rhymed haiku-palindrome (5/7/5 = 17 syllables) times two: equals ONE limerick-Palindrome (8/8/5/5/8 = 34 syllables).
An amorf'd, lowkey experiMENTAL haiku/limerick-palindrome:

>SEEK "Ol' Smoki" smok'd from 'a smoki';

smok'd   from Musk-Okee/Reek-OK ...

Sum² :"Muskokee"

"Reek-Ok" sum-morf'd = KOMSI ?

- kom's AMORF'd, kom's I: kom's 'Lo-kees' !<

Andy Paley deserves his own palindrome. Even his surname calls for one! After all those years of hard work he put into his collaboration with Brian, and relatively little OFFICIAL output to show for it; we can only speculate: Y??? (co-starring usual suspect, *Eugene Landy*)
[This one should be proof, that anyone can create a (haiku-)palindrome. It all grows out of that first line: the name with a suitable suffix! The rest is backward paddling and spelling, trying to make sense of it/add meaning to it all:]
(number one:)

>L/ANDY PALEYdrome !

"M.O.Rd." - Y?  *E.L*, A.P.??

Y?   DNA = L. !<

          Paleydrome #²:

>Naf'? - Aha!; *Rio
Grande* e', made Dame Edna:
"*RG*? OI! RAH!! (- a fan)"<

Paleydrome #³ (Paley Bros.):
 :bw
>SWEET INSANITY ...

P^LEY/P^ley: "Ye LP = YELPy!

Tin-as-nite, e' W'*S°*?"<

Tanka-Paleydrome (Babewatch-edit):

             >SWEET INSANITY?:
"PALEY /*DON(!) WAS* NEVER - er....
                 even saw no
                'dye-LA-P.Y.T.'
         in a s-NITe'e !"  *W^s*<

Paley'drome #°:
 :bw
           >SMS in air,
B: "Wall-of-Sound *n* U'-0's
    - folla W! (Brianisms)"<

Haiku+paley'drome #**** (belated birthday greeting from our Doctor Love:)
 :bw
>SO, WILSON/SCHMILSON !

Dr.: "0 limerix-ire, Milord ?

No slim H^'C°S ??  NO Sliwo's ???"<

W*A*R*N*I*N*G:
The following EXPANSION Shows what happens when a palindromer desperately wants to incorporate into one single limerick-palindrome IN WORDS his 3 main creative outlets, namely: limerick & haiku (palindromed) + Wilson & "FIRE" + "Dorian Gray" & Sliwovitz!
AND you have been warned ...

[the court-case against Dr. O'Limerix, dedicated to Oscar Wilde:]

>>E*/ RISE !  "DORIAN" POT-PAL 'ON FIRE'!

SO WILson/Schmalson: Dr. O'Limeriex/EIRE:

               "Milord, NO Slam H^'C°S

                + N_O Sliwo's !

er.. IF, N_O LAP*TOP(!) 'n AIR, o DESIRE'... "<<

-  from Dr.O'Limerix!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  See how simple it is (as an example) to make a palindrome poem, like how Mr. Was came to direct/produce IJWMFTT:
 :bw
>Don Was ?
Saw nod !<

Or take a  Mama Cass, and see where a name like that can lead to:

>L.A.-gym, eh ?
Class-act Mama 'Mt.' Cass
Alchemy gal !<

ENJOY ...

New original limerick (as one would expect it from a dr. O'Limerix) written in the good olde "naughty-but-nice" tradition. So if if you are being a wee bit PRICKly about the subject, just don't read on! Improvements are welcome ...
(The OSCAR WILDEst limerix  # I:)

O. Wilde once DID talk in gay Limerick

This whole town was quick to give him the schtick

They really were not hateful

and he wasn't ungrateful:

" Why, thanks all the same, but PLEASE GIMME Prick"...

The OSCAR WILDEst limerix # II - by unknown:)

There once lived a man of superlative wit
There was never a pun that Wilde could not hit
He smacked down Churchill
left him in the lurch, ill
and completely destroyed him, the twit


M'Lud, the judge's verdict - as a limerick-palindrome designed by >droll Mr.K!/SkRm(L'-Lord)<:


>"Sex, e' ? Palindromes unite GODs EXes !

   An integral EVIL --- flexes;

                 Sex-elf - live LARGE*T¤nin ?

                 As EXes DO-GET-IN:

  USE M.O.Rd. !    NIL apexes !!"<

 Historical limerick in 4 parts about the mock trial against Oscar Wilde (which - the case itself - was the real DISGRACE i.m.h.o.) BY ALEXANDER BARON ...
(OSCAR WILDEst limericks # IV:)

There once was a writer named Wilde,
whose sexual habits weren't mild,
        In fact they'd appear
     To be shockingly  queer,
For a nobelman's son he defiled.

The Marquis, he sent Wilde a note:
'To the sodomite Oscar', he wrote,
    Oscar Wilde sued for libel,
      but soon got an eyeful,
And backed down against the old goat.

Shortly afterward came his arrest,
And poor Oscar was surely distressed
       when sentenced to do
        Hard labour for two,
Long years as Her Majesty's guest.

On release from his punishment place,
He departed in shame and all haste,
       Thus, hard up and exiled
         Did poor Oscar Wilde
Spend the rest of his life in disgrace.

Who really was instrumental in  the "De-composing" of SMiLE? Just take the underscored(!) word from the opening line and read it from behind ...                                                                                                                                                                                                
  (the >SMiLE-LIM*s<, #2 [the first one is to be found here down under]:)

 :bw
  Wils_o_n_a_t_a_s: DE-composing SMiLE Tones

"Schmilsson smart-ass" RE-osmosing style zones !

                          Choosing "Be Around" tapes

                          Oozing BRiAN soundscapes

NIL-non GRATAs: MILESTONESMILESTONESMiLEsTONES....

Memorial tanka-palindrome dedicated to Glen Travis Campbell ("El GIGANTE/GRANDE", 1936-2017) -  R.I.P. [G.I.D. ? = "Guess I'm Dumb"]:

     >GLEN: a B*Boy (live) ~  B Y'...

Dig "G.I.D."! - (yo brats) "W*CREW"er!!

           C°. + W.  *S*T*A*R* -

         (boy diggidy!)  ~  Be wily,

           o B.B.;  an  "El G......"<

Smart alec: VAN DYKE PARKS Serves Up a haiku+palindrome of his own:

 :bw
>"Two-step to lamp-lite,

cellar tune"?   "Nut" R Allec, e'!

... 'til' p.m.  -  A LOT !!            [Pet So*-w't]<

  >OO-doowop? O, voodoo !<


>>On " D.A."  ~ Smiley ...

[Smile]: HaHaHa-HELI°Ms ?

Yel': "I'm SAD!" - no ...<<

This haiku-palindrome is for my former partner-in-crime, Mister K. When that "Tapatalk" took over the other Beach Boys-forum, alas the  huge collection of Mr.K-dromes was wiped out. [This Topic-talkie however, is ALWAYS open ...:=}]


>T^PAlinDROMATIKS:

EEK!  ^la TAPATALKee;

% skit, amor'd = NIL apt !<

The latest - 'drome left over there (and perhaps the last one of his - for quite awhile?); and what a great one it is, deserving the full royal treatment. Which in this case would be the double decker red-bus limousine among all 'dromes: THE TWIN LIMERICK-PALINDROME!
Starring great poets galore: G. TRAKL, Phil CODY, E. BADU, H.C. Andersen, A.E. HOUSMAN & Garfunkel himself (who knew?). Also featuring violin-virtuoso YEHUDI Menuhin, Harvard professor PUTNAM + WEB-search machinese: BAIDU.
TWOfer LIM°DROME poems from ART Garfunkel, (as adapted by yours truly Doc:)

                     D*U*D

>>>Dud: "G. Trakl at a pat  (non-U);

has Cody any *H.C.A.*?   E. Badu !(?)"

                bus-red I p**

                ^s  a Yehudi

A bot-nod:  "Olé, Putnam's  U!"

                          ~

O heads-LSD: A.E. Housman, TUPELO'd

On to Baidu: HEY, a "spider-Subud"!

                  A BEACHy?   Nay Doc's ...

                  - a Hun on Tapatalk !

-ART G^_ _ _ _ _ _ _            (:dud)<<<

        >GMO?  Sued !    So ...

LIM°DROME*em  OR  do Milos'

         ^*^DEUS  -  OMG !<

In a world SADLY gone mad, the same goes for limo-drome #6 [Doctor's order:]

                      >> °MM (a raw tone:)

          "LIMO-DROME*em or do (Mi**) L°**, DAM !"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ME? "LIMO-DROME*em OR DO (MI**)  L°**, MA^M !"
                                         Limo-drome'em
                                    OR do (Mi**) L°**-em??
[MAD:]  "LIMO-DROME*em or DO MI, L°*e  -- NOT WAR/AMM°!!"<<

And this is how it can be done (made rediculously simple:)

a) First on: write a single palindrome (a message/paragraph of 6 to 8 syllables) which read the same from both directions
b) Repete your palindrome 4 times: First as line 1, second time as line 2, third time as lines 3 & 4 (split into 2 halves) and fourth time as line 5
c) Add a rhyming word onto the end of line 1, that meaningfully can be mirrored as the first word in the last line (spelled backward)
d) Add 2 more end-word rhymes onto lines 2 & 5 respectively, thereby completing the triplet of the limerick
e) The rhyming end word  of the second line must be a palindrome in itself (as the middle word in the whole limerick-palindrome)
f) Your palindromic paragraph (split in two) forms the third & fouth lines. Complete the needed  limerick-couplet by adding a word onto the of line 4, which rhymes with the existing end-word from line 3 (a new word onto the 4th line that can be mirrored as a meaningful  opening  word in front of line 2 (backward spelled)
g) FINALLY: a new end word must be added on to the last line (rhyming with the first 2 lines). This last word needs to be mirrored as the meaningful new opening word (spelled backward) onto the opening line
h) Post your effort here (good or bad, halfbaked or whatever)...

U don't need to be like a T.S. Eliot doing milestones, to make limo-drome! Even a silly word like "limo-dromisms" (& its U-turn) can get U started [in this example I only had to write the core palindrome twice due to the abbreviations with each letter counting as a syllable:]

>Use no T.S.E.-limodromisms - huh!
sms: "i.m.o.  R   *DO  MILESTONES*  U~o !"!
"Use no TSE-limo ...
/DROMISMS"  - HUH??"
SMS:  IMO  R  DO-MILESTONES   U!<

Earlier on - as (my) luck would have it - I had to face the fact, that Oscar Wilde did neither a limerick NOR a palindrome EVER! With T.S. Eliot, luckily,  it's different. He's been there, done that - at least one palindrome poem under his belt:

>"To I, Lester"

A cotton eve,
O, trap ! Eden !
O, television sad as night.
I  wonder if senile sirs tell war days,

  Words selfless drowsy ...
A drawl lets rise lines fired
              [No !]

With gin:
Sad as "no" is,
I've let one depart.
O, eve--
Not to care ....

--T.S. Eliot<


And a limeRISQUE Eliot-poem from 1916:

King Bolo's big black bassturd kween
Her taste was kalm & klassic
An as for anything obscene
She said it made her ass sick

Without sounding too limodromatic about it, I'd say that T.S. Eliot has created an absolute masterpiece, incorporating (like he does) both a title AND his own signature into the palindrome poem!
The following limerick-version comes with only one original TSE-rhyme (O/No!) and two half-rhymes (war days/drows^y + DEpart/ELIot), including its own GIN-induced haiku-palindrome added. CHEERS! Limo+-drome poem from T.S. Eliot (as limeRICKTIFIED by Dr.O':)

            >>"To I, Lester"

    A cotton eve, O trap ! Eden ! O,
television sad as night. I wonder if {yo*}
           senile sirs tell war days
           words selfless, drowsy
A drawl lets rise lines {OY!} fired  [No!]
                           ~
WITH gin:  sad as "no"
IS: I've let one depart
O, eve--  Not to care ...          
                       --T.S. ELIot<<

A Thomas Eliot-limodrome poem originally written by Alastair Reid:

      >>T. Eliot: top YAP-bard

notes PUTRID! aka tang emanating, IS sad.

        I'd assign it a name: "GNAT"

           a.k.a. "dirt upset

         on  drab pay-pot-toilet!"<<



 

In case anyone wonders about the CAPTION gone missing:

>"WAS it ELIOTs toilet I saw?"<

Sure, it was. But U  DIDn't see the next palindrome!:

>"T. Eliot NIXES sex in toilet!"<

Guilty as charged: American/Brit Author T.S. Eliot makes me all PALINDROMISTy-eyed!
The following limerick, however - written by W.H. Auden plays with the popular confusion that "The Mill On The Floss" was written by T.S. Eliot, when in fact  it was by his english (female!) namesake: GEORGE Eliot. Small wonder that Thomas is "at a loss":

 T.S. Eliot is quite at a loss
when clubwomen bustle across
        at literary teas
        crying - "WHAT, if you please
did you mean by The Mill On The Floss?"

God Only Knows where limo-drome # 10 will be coming from? (he asked NOT-knowingly)...
With the following HAIKU-drome, I'd like to nominate TS "Lester" Eliot for his palindromic*ly irresistible name AND for his own palindrome!:

          >SET on a LIMo---

*dromist, huh?  T.S.: "I.m.o ...

         R  do-mi-la  notes !"<

Everyone loves that album! Even TS Eliot does in his poets paradise:
 :bw
     >O, I'd ...  U! - T.S.E.!!!

"WILD HONEY?   Bri-R.^B., YE^!

       No HD;  LIVE/studio!"<

So limo-drome #10 comes from Scandinavia IN scandinavian, I'm afraid but with a translation! Originally a haiku-palindrome by Eva Borchersen about mindfulness in tea-drinking and sweet pie-eating. The following extension is apparently the first and only limerick-palindrome in Danish(?)
Wordlist: Te-i-neg/tea-in-a-sheaf~konditoriet/tearoom~sød tærte/sweet pie~nydes af os i det/savoured by us inside~Sødt amok/sweets amok~komatøs/comatose~SE!/LOOK!~dynetræt døs/duvet-tired daze~te-i-ro, tid nok/tea-in-peace, time-a-plenty~geniet/the genious (being: Eva B. i.m.o.!). Limo-drome by Eva Borchersen/Dr.O':

>"TE~I~NEG"-konditoriet

   Sød tærte nydes af os i*et ...

             sø*t AMOK/komatøs?

Te-i-sofa; "SE!  Dynetræt døs".

 "Te i ro - tid nok"-GENIET<

 >Test one "Rasmus", Dr.!

"=O'Limeriex/Eire(Milord)?...

   Sums ARE not set !"<

Crash course in writing a limerick:

First, take a person and give her/him-the-schtick

          Then insert a wee couplet

          and end with a drop-dead

GORGEOUS punshline and/or gimme shriek!

A religious palindrome (meaning: You are our Father) dedicated to the church victims and survivors:

>A*B*L*A*N*A*Q*A*N*A*L*B*A<

Wholly holy haiku-drome?:

        >Pop, R U our Dad?

"A*B*L*A*N*A*Q*A*N*A*L*B*A"

       Dad R U:  OUR Pop!<

Climate climax edit:

         >GAIA , GAIA - G**.

"A*B*L*A*N*A*Q*A*N*A*L*B*A!"

          GAIA, GAIA - G**<

>dog "Man-Son"?  Re: D*(!)-
Valley;  YELLa  V.D.er ...
"NO"s *n* "!-am-God"<

    >Hey, emo-O.W.:

    Emo-DANDY-dna?

"Do me/woo me, yeh!"<

     >DAVID CASSIDY

Bruce-curb:  Y diss a CD?

          I.W.A.D.!<

And now for the extended limo*drome version:

>Bard DAVID CASSIDY:  Y "Brucee-trap"?

"Partridge-son", "nose-g°° "  = dirt-rap!

                   "Partee - curby"

                    Y diss a CD??

I.W.A.D.  -  ******* drab ...<

Tanka-palindrome:


         >Sex at toilet?

Eyesore? "Waste Land"!  WAS it

         ELIOTs toilet I saw

         dna: Let's awe "rosey"

           e'! T. Eliot taxes<

Now, a pretty TAXING limo*drome version, waxing all lyrical:

>>Sex at toilet relaxes !

Eyesore?  "Waste Land"  waxes .....

          Was it ELIOTs toilet I saw ?

           Sex-aw'-dna:  Let's AWE !

"rosey", e' ?   Sex-alert  Eliot  taxes <<

In the aforementioned LONG-poem "Waste Land", several palindromes appear ...
A near-palindrome:
>"Weia lala leia W*"<
Word units ones like:
>"drip drop drip"<
>"co co rico co co ..."<
>"twit twit twit"<
>"jug jug jug jug jug jug"<
and the last line:
>"Shantih shantih shantih"<

Believe it or not, but I really DO take pride in concocting/conducting these verses! This year I've been flying solo (once again), but I still miss having someone  by my side. Well, U just CANNOT win. But there is always next year ...

- is world peace, Co2-redux in the air & a palindromic lucky fluke charm with the legend ABLANA{Q}ANALBA ingraved! Have one yourself - IF U like the idea, that is ...

a) Googl "crystal ball with magical inscription" (of all places in the world discovered almost 200 years ago in my own home turf - Aarslev on the danish isle Fyn (Funen))!
b) Notice the arrow/anchor involved! Take any ANCHOR like the one called "waxing poetic" (as an example) which appears similar (or use a sphere/ball for the project, if U prefer)
c) Ingrave the letters: A B L A N A on the left hand "arrow" of the "anchor"!  The letter Q right there in the middle. And the letters A N A L B A on the right hand "arrow"!

GOOD LUCK WITH IT!

Like U lot, Al "Scrooge" Jardine is not impressed - IF the following senryu-palindrome  is any indication:

>Hablas Ab-
LANAanal-
ba's? Al: "BAH !!"<

Mr. Jardine UN-Scrooged:

B.B.
a.k.a.
>"AL et al"<?

Here is "our" New Years Eve Galla Gif(t): a double limo*drome combo - authored by U-know-who. His last one (½ a year ago) was about famous poets (click on page 2). This new one is a tribute to music and composers, ESPECIALLY the 12-"tone-row" music and its pioneers: Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg. Also featured: BENjamin Britten, Alan J., Walter Damrosch, "L.A." (Light Album/Los ANGELes, H.C. Lumbye, "LANA", Hal Blaine & the O'Jays. No harm done! ENJOY ...

                           >YAY !

Not named is "era Webern", e.g.

Seraf "L.A." (tempo's easy): a jodl on raw "O"!  Re:

                       NOT ogre Ben?

                       I, Alban: "Alan,

Damrosch, Schönberg, ogre B !"
                                ~
No H.C.s [HCs??] or mad(?) - na, Lana": Blaine

"Berg - (o tone-row) - Arnold!": O'Jays

                  Aesop-metal fares;

                  genre bewares!

                                       Idem, Anton ------ yay<

RASMUS, I MOVED MY PALINDROME ACTIVITY OUT OF HERE FOR A REASON: IT WAS NOT APPRECIATED. AND NOW YOU'RE DRAGGING IT BACK IN. WOULD YOU MIND NOT DOING THAT? THANK YOU.

yay

Rest assured! Like yesteryear, Dr.O will now be taking his SCHEDULED spring break ...

Also starring "S.D." (Stephen Desper with his first BB-album as chief engineer), Guru Dev & Eir (Goddess of harmony and healing):

               >"Yogi/Guru gig?"

(:ses U:)  "F*R*I*E*N*D*S  SD'n   Eir-fuses

              G.I.~guru  gig?  OY!"<


In the following double limerick-palindrome,  US-Navy meets the Vienna Classix (Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven)! Both the title ("Hide GO Seek") & "Sandy (She Needs Me)" are Brian-references. Also mentioned is journalist Jane Velez:


      >*HAYDn* SEEK/Okees ^nd yah<


>>>B-Navy  (G.I.): W.-Duluth

Gif(Vt) - *Wolfgang Amadeus*:

            "I gag Navy-Alcatraz!

           Omit name *Haydn*, ASS!

*Beethoven*?  A *Joseph H.*-peso!!"

                  ~

Jane V.: "Oh, teebs -*Sandy ...*?

A_H_E_M !  = A_N_T_I !"

          Mozart: "A clay *van* gag?

                I sued a mag-nag!

Flow-tv fight U, *LudWIG-y van B*"<<<

?

    >Ye "WiLoJarSton"

   #AL-et-al & late L.A.

#NOTs/#Raj/#OLIVE!  Y?<

This is a great meeting that never took place though it could have: multitalented artist Viktor IV (alias Walter Karl/Carl Glück/Bulgar Finn) lived in Amterdam with his (danish) wife INA Munck on their houseboat (on the Amstel River/canal) ALSO when the Beach Boys stayed in the Amsterdam area during the recording of their HOLLAND album in the summer of 1972. Especially the WILSONs might have been inspired by such a meeting (for THEIR ancestral dutchiness and New Yorker VIKTORs american(a)-gone-dutch?). Viktor IV could have delivered great work as an album cover artist and/or additional lyricist(?)... In the following tanka-palindrome, one of VIKTORs most famous catchphrases/oneliners is quoted (reminding us of Dennis' solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue"!) A sad similarity is that exactly 2½ years after Dennis drowned, Victor IV died in a similar accident while diving from his boat doing underwater repairs (june 26th 1986). (Hero TS Eliot - another artist,"exiled" from USA - also appears:)

>>Futo's, "Who needs the  

      Pacific Ocean", Ina?  

           Eco-*ci-fi* ...

  *C^A P^*, eh? T.S.-deen!

      Oh W. - *SO TUF*!<<

Also check out the fine hourlong filmportrait on youtube (ALSO titled "Who Needs The Pacific Ocean":)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mZNakFnrQ

 The  following palindrome is quoted from the last Viktor IV-tagline in the movie:

     >A kabbala': "art is never obvious"

U~o, IV.  Bore?  W'en Sitra-ála-B.B.! (a.k.a.)<      

(By CHAPLIN, FATAAR, Jardine, "Bulgar Finn", Dr. Love & Dr. Limeriex:)

Viktor Fore, Viktor Fore
Viktor Fore & WE're gonna change our world, that's right

I made my home in Amsterdamee
just to see what I could find
Though my heart was "Out In The Country"
I was not there to close my eyes

Said I've been tired of all the same
must've been a Siren in my head
I've been writing all my feelings
All the running and my temperature won't change

Viktor Fore, Viktor Fore
Viktor Fore & WE're gonna change our world that's wrong!

Say, you reap just what you're sowing
The *Bulgar* "Time is always now"!
Beach Boys "NEEDS  Pacific Ocean"(?)
Trust those feelings deep withOUT!

Evolution isn't strange
Nature itself demands a change
The universe is on our side
We can't hold back the coming tide

Viktor Fore, Viktor Fore
Viktor Fore & WE're gonna change our world from wrong to right ...

- that's NOT me: >God, "pal*mist" - I ?  It's: "I'm lapdog!"<...      >E^ster egg?  'ere, "t.s. E."<

>>A nail: BULGAR FINN/
a V. IV  ~  Anni F.-rag ?
L_'_u_b_l_i_a_n_a ??<<


>>>A kabbala':

"Art is never obvious"

   (B. Finn). If "BS!";

U'~o', IV ... "Bore!"? W'en Sitra

    á la  B.B. (a.k.a.)<<<

       If I'd MAD  O*D?

IF I'd mad ...   Dam'd if I do

   - dam'd if I DO not !<<

>>>Y, '68!: sued a man; "A Mr. Of Soli [:M]"?, so ...

                    limo-drome'em or DO Milos

                              M*I*L*O*S

                           F*O*R*M*A*N

= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "AMADEUS"  (+86 y.)<<<

Prize-winning Yoko Ono-themed reversible haiku, created by Martin Clear:


    >Ono, miked, unaware,

damned, ruby burden made raw:

         a nude kimono.<
P.s.:
With this one I really thought I had doctored a perfect double-ended haiku. Well, like some of U may have spotted, IT's NOT! A haiku's syllable distribution must be 5/7/5 (and not like here 6/7/5 - that's just NOT on - O*NO!). ALSO: as utter Beach Boys fans we gotta ask ourselves: "could Yoko be our lost & found "Ruby Baby"? And AMAZINGLY - just adding the wee word "baby" into the equation, helped solving my original dilemma [and yes, the word "burden" must here be a one syll. only (burd'n)].
So with this lucky escape, let me present the reversible haiku by palindrome-contest prize-winner, Martin Clear:

            >O*N*O

   miked, unaware, damned

Ruby Baby-burden made raw:

         a nude kimono<


   (by Martin Clear/Dr.O')

http://palindromist.org/node/1047

http://fuga.ru/lexa/old/eve.html

² : >"Me too"?
³ : TOOT*em!<

² : >G*O*D!
° : "Garden of Eden"?  ONE def/ONE drag, dog!<

haiku-palindrome derived from Captain Beefheart:


   >Ye Babette Baboon

Mooz, Abba Zabba zoom'n

    OO - Babette Babey!<

>*Jabba The Hutt*:

     "ET TU !" "HEH,

       tabba *J*?"<

     >>Words revers'd rows:

   I ar' U, Master Fe - "WHO?"

      'Tis  S*O*T*A*D*E*S

- used a toss-it !  Oh, we fret:

samurai swords, revers'd-row<<

"The 3'rd-century poet Sotades the Obscene from Maronia is credited as the inventor of palindromes, which are sometimes called sotadics in his honor. One of his poems attacked Ptolemy II of Philadelphius for marrying his own sister, Arsinoe.
It included the line (translated form ancient Greek) "You're sticking your prick in an unholy hole." For that he was imprisoned. He escaped, but was captured by Patroklus, Ptolemy's admiral, who had him shut up in a leaden chest and thrown into sea.
This sotadic poem imagines what Sotades' last thoughts might've been.
Notice that the four different proper nouns, excluding "God", appear in four adjacent stanzas."

>>>"God
dam !

As Sotades
used a toss.

Away !
No sign.

Is sot a dog,
Patroklus ?

No sign.
Is Sotades rap ?

Won't Arsinoe
drown ?  I plug.

No !  I
to Maronia,

Ptolemy by me.
Lot ...   pain ...

Or a motion----
gulp !

In word eon,
is rat now parsed ?

A tossing
is on ?

Sulk,
or tap God.

A tossing
is on !

Yaw as Sotades
used a toss.

A mad
dog !"<<<

To honor SOTADES: a sotadic limerick version (KICKSHAWS/{dr.O}:)


>>>{Now} God dam. As Sotades used a toss ...

"Away ! No sign; is "Sot" a dog, Patroklus ?

          NO SIGN ! Is Sotades rap ?

          Won't Arsinoe drown ?  I plug {AP^P}

No !  I to Maronia  {popo}"

                                 ~

"Ptolemy by me:  Lot ...  {popo-}pain  OR a motion ?

{P^PA}  Gulp !  In word: E*O*N.

             Is rat now parsed ?  A tossing is on !

             Sulk,  or tap God ? A TOSSING IS ON !!"

Yaw as Sotades used a toss.  A mad dog {won}<<<

>>Eros, to get a real law,

No riots eyed, as no war;

          Desire we rise,

          Draw on sad eyes,

To iron wall.  Aerate  (got sore).<<

https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5654&context=wordways

Tanka-palindrome, amatively derived from Howard Bergerson's:


        >>La Dolce Vita

Man, "Loop de Loop" ~ DIP!
 Mild natal fay, by a water
      Fret away by a:
flat and limpid pooled pool 'n
      amative clod, AL<<

>Now stops knobs-surger REG^~!  RUSS' bonk-spots won.<

(This one also works as a word-based palindrome with a slightly different reversal, though)

      >Now stops knobs-

          surger REG^~...

RUSS' bonk-spots won<

    >Deja-vu,
       e'? a la
EUW !- A.J.'ed<

>New drownin' word W'EN  ...<

  >>Titanik~OO  "la~
 la !  Co² ?  O, C !"  á~
lá  LOOKIN~at~it !?<<

  >Maso/sotades-

tical?  Laci T*S*E*:

dat o--  S*O*Sam<

>>TWO-STEP TO LAMP-LITE
 :bw
     cellar tune. Ye "Nut"
     R "Allec" e',  til' p.m.
- A LOT!  [Pet So**** w't?]<<

And here goes a droll senryu-drome from Mike:

   >"Keep An Eye

   On S"?        No

"eye";   na PEEK!<

   :bw         >Tao, B.W.?

"Oh so gone, Y?  Sail~alias:

  ye  No-Go Showboat !"<

 :bw>D*A*/SMiLE?

      M' E* L°:

    "I^m sad"<

Back in the early nineteenseventies (according to Brad Elliott's BB-discography) Brian & Mike had been writing a complete song cycle about Atlantis. All they needed then, was someone who could score a symphony! We don't know who - so let's call that someone N.N. and see if we can't palindromically dream up some minor details. Like in the following snippet of a transcript from a meeting where they have invited that orchestrator. Brian & Mike opens the meeting. Also present are AL & T.M. (Tandyn Almer?). (Interestingly A.J. was very much into making suites back then. Like HE was the one who suggested to hook those 3 songs together for California Saga on Holland. A few years later he wrote another one - referred to as the "Monterey Suite". But the inclusion of Santa Ana Winds on KTSA took the wind right out of THAT project!]

 :bw      >ATLANTIS RISING.

A gaga gag?  "N~, I ...  Sir !"

       "Sit, N~, AL, T.A."<

Warner Boss, Ostin's gut reaction upon listening to H.E.L.P Is On The Way (the "enema"-enemy song:)
 :bw

     >>"Mo Ostin: "Radiant

    Radish, eh!  H*E*L*P ^^

     Is On ~ Way ?  YAWN !

O si^^ple  H*, heh? SID*ART^?

  Na, I DARN it so ...  ~OM~"<<

A tanka-palindrome like this is always in danger of becoming a limerick-drome - or to die trying!:

>>G, Mo Ostin: "Radiant Radish?  A:

     H*E*L*P^^ Is On ~ Way ?

          YAWN; O si^^ple  {HAH}

          SID*ART^ ? Na.

    I DARN it so  -   OMG"<<

 :bw>>"Dumb A~gel Fairy Tale"?

(:DAFTfilm). Lift/fad-"ELAT'°~!"  Y-

^RIA ?  FLEG^^A = B-mud !<<

  :bw  >>"a handsome man and

      baton": Nota B.: dna/

name = Mo + S.D.!  "NaHA"?<<

The following verse, created by one "JP" is a multi-layered one:
- It's a word-unit palindrome
- it's a limerick
- and it can actually be sung to the tune in question (Scarborough Fair of Simon & Garfunkel-fame):

>>Where IS, sir, fair Scarborough Fair?

Rhyme must Rosemary, "thyme" and "lime" there !

            Aye, there "lime" AND "thyme"

            RoseMARY must rhyme -

fair - ScarBOROUGH Fair, sir, is WHERE ?<<

One fine limo-drome deserves another verse, right?- and hopefully this is it ( Paul Simon/dr.O:)

>>*There Goes Rhymin' SImon*; Paul as-it-were.

Simon says: "ARThur rhymin'?  No sir!

                    Never, sir: NO rhymin'

                    ARThur!!"  Says Simon:

"WEre IT!" - as PAUL SImon, rhymin' goes THERE<<

     >>HEH ?

     Sotades
     opposed
a TOSH, eh !<<

[and maybe U'll get a kick out of the KICKSHAW ^entry #76/77^]

Brilliant sotadic song crafted by "GIORGIO CONIGLIOs GRANDSON" to the melody from The Sounds Of Silence. So this one TOO is  dedicated to Simon&Garfunkel:

                       °
Palindromes are a dark friend
Strange insights read from either end.
They sometimes seem confused in meaning
Yet their impact comes careening.
>In word-salat, alas drown I< - poor brain lobes:
                Nasty strobes -
The Palindromes of Evil.

                      '
So, >Evil axis - six alive<
Sends >delivery reviled<
Message said, > Hades unused, ah!<
I learned that >Ah, Satan sees Natasha<
Advice received >Bats enliven evil nest, ab< -
     >Bats odd, do stab< -
The Palindromes of Evil.

                       ²
It >wets dab noses on bad stew<
And so >we panic in a pew<
People writing >Nightlife - filth, gin<
>DENNIS, Nell, Ellen and Edna sinned<
>Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas< unsung
          But no one flung,
>Satan I prefer pinatas<

>Di, as I said<, >Oh no! Don Ho!<
>Slap pals<: >So many dynamos<
They hear >no word, no bond: row on<
Please >no lava, not on Avalon<
              >Mix a maxim<
>Stack cats<: >lived on, no devil.<

                       ³
Folks >stole lots< and then were stunned:
>No dare - radon< (that was punned).
>Murder for a jar of red rum<
Forming >model truth: turtledom<
And the sign flashed out:  >Egad! No bondage<
>Yaw bus, civic subway<  - rails,
                       And >liar trail<s
>Re-paper< - Palindromes of Evil.

Limerick out of ^GCG^ (>"names reverse, man"<).:


    Palindromes are a dark friend

Strange insights read from either end

           feeding poor brain-lobes

            DEfeating nasty strobes:

   The Palindromes of Evil descend


Limericks are a dark friend too - like the following, featuring The Grim Reaper (from dr. O'Limeriex:)

There once lived a Brit named Geoff Emerick,
who's due a memorial limerick
              HE SOUNDSCAPEd THE BEATLES !
             To say THIS, is needless:
noBODY is safe when The GRIMmer Reaps

Today I found this bilingual palindrome and reminded me of this thread:

(http://i63.tinypic.com/2ypi4k3.jpg)

Bipartisan Congressional tanka-palindrome featuring Obama, Ron Paul & Newt Gingrich.  (Authored by Mark Saltveit & John Connett:)


       >>"I tan!  I:  mullin'
       away, Obama;   I (R.P.)
-  NOT Newt !"  Ron's snort went
        on [=pr]: "I am a boy  ~
   a wan I*L*L*U*M*I*N*A*T*I"<<

Proudly presenting that eternal serpent:


>>'Tis "UROBORUS"

It is  OROBOROS?;  it

IS  UROBORUS!  {It..}<<

Let's make the case for "skits-uroborustiks" aka palindromes aka sotadics:

1) First and foremost, the word is in itself a palindrome!

2) It starts with "skits" - indicating wordplays

3) then comes "U:Robo": for the SPELLing-bound automatisms involved in reading and writing a palindrome?

4) Ending with "rustic" - another nice quality often found in palindromes

5) Last but not least: incorporating the name of the snake who's biting its own tale (just like a palindrome does): "UROBORUS", the symbol of something never-ending (like the 8-   symbol). And truth be told: I didn't even know its sotadic name until a few days ago (from TV: "Young Lewis"!).

(A perpetuum "palindruum" mobile - ad ABSURDUM & infinitum !? :)

      I                 R
  K      T        U      O

§             S             B

   K     T        U      O
      I                 R

Perhaps that longer Version was just too Long - nice though it may be.
So in this less-is-more edit "S:" is for the snake/serpent (with this letter's serpentine shape in the right place) AND it stands for sotadic as well.
Yours truly
dr. O


>DARYL DRAGON,  U
# "RUMBO, [sob]. 'M¤ U R
#UNO: GARDLY RAD<

Memorial HALinDRUM, exBLAINEd by Eric Harshbarger/Papa£aPap

>Hal: a renegade
Revered, HAL BLAINEd, re: WRECK'~
CREW as a WRECK'~ CREWer
Denial-BLAHd?  Eve-red!
A *General*, Ah<

>>L.A.-snob? "BIG SUR"s

      obo'hobos  R  U.S.,

   giBBons ! :   a  L°**<<

With that last suroborus-haiku, this topic probably has run its >racecar< course (just like the toyworld's racing field version with ITS 8-shaped cartracks). In the present format anyway. To have reached 100 "replies", DISTRIBUTING the finest and wittiest wordplays to be found inside or outside the internet - AND reaching 10.000 views is far more than could be expected given the TUFF crowd here in the Sandbox! But anyones - DO feel free to carry on ...

    >Sum: NO chorus

   S*u*r*O*B*o*r*u*s

"Sur"?  Oh CON,  ---mus<

Kevin, The Spacey on trial in Nantucket
They say: "he played p¤¤L in another man's pocket"
Says actor Kevin Spacey:
perhaps I'm guy-crazy
and I just MAY have touched, but I did not hand~flock~it

>Y God Made Radios
re: Pi*Piper: so I dare
DAMd - o^^G = Y<

Pendulum-palindromic powwow (SMiLE 1967) penned by Shakey Graves/Pap^L^Parks

                          >L.A.
                        PENDULUM
               :bw                *******
              "drawn             ****** i
              inward"             Parks:
             ******               "Are we
            ******                  n o t
           ******                    drawn
          ******                      ONWARD,
         ******                        we freer few;
        ******                          drawn
       ******                            onward
      ******                              to new
     ******                                ERAs?"
   :bw                                        *******
    "KRAP !                                   *******
   Drawn                                      *******
  INward,                                      ******
 MuLud !                                        ******
~ nepal ?"          (((<<>>)))             ?*****!