Steven Fraser

Palindromes and other ludic constructions // Japanese translator

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

DEATH OF A PALINDROMIST

See, still as mirror reset,
a torso golden.

Words sap, mock,
cut me open.

Old as a tide,
I edit a sad, lone poem,
tuck compass.

Drowned Logos rotates.
Error rims all it sees.

#palindrome

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@MooseAllain "My wife ran off to the Horn of Africa because I criticised her hot drinks."
"Djibouti?"
"No, I dissed her coffee."

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@MooseAllain Amen! Elan!
A banal enema

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@MooseAllain Eerily funny!
My wife and I practice competitive hallucination of US states. She likes to think she's Mrs Hippy but I'm florider.

[Ian Duhig FRSL @ianduhig]

Belatedly for #NationalProofreadingDay --

How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?

Too

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Gold Era (palindrome)

A red log
A pansy tied

A garden mad
A flower up

A drowsy lilac
A lily sword

A pure wolf
A damned rag

A deity's nap
A gold era

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@aaaronson @Slushea "Detartrated" is another long one with 11 letters.

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Thanks to @dastulika for bringing my cartoon to life so colourfully, and for cleverly transforming one of the gnats into a half-lemon, half-gnat visual palindrome: tangy gnat!

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@sashastiles https://t.co/uLlWqnK6PL

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Now that I have recovered from my palindrome bypass surgery, I may just go back to Xcreting spoonerisms here.

'Mad in the glow' meant glad in the moment.

#spoonerism

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

I finally got around to cartooning this palindrome.

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Gnats, ‘tis prawn omelette!
Lemon warps its tang.

(Palindrome that would be enhanced by a cartoon image of gnat leader and swarm encountering a prawn omelette with lemon. If only I could draw!)

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@Hennyhennies @teaforpterosaur @sleeepysandy Not really. Many strong drugs have horrible side effects that cause much suffering to the patient while still having the marginal benefit of keeping them alive or controlling debilitating symptoms.

[BBC Front Row @BBCFrontRow]

The moment Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for her novel Orbital and dedicates the award to earth and peace.

Catch up with the ceremony broadcast live on Front Row with @samiraahmeduk on @bbcsounds now 🎧

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@ae_stallings Not quite what you're after but it reminded me of these beautiful creations from @TheLitterBug:
https://t.co/IzwZzsN7qI

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@beyondwordplay Thanks!

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Enola Gay (palindrome)

“Enola’s in,”
a monk said.

I ask,
“No medic?”

“One grey ash, too sere,”
monk said.

I ask,
“No man is alive?”

“Evil. A sin,”
a monk said.

I ask no mere soothsayer,
“Genocide?”

“ …. “
monk said.

I ask,
“No man is alone?”

#palindrome

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Enola Gay (palindrome)

“Enola’s in,”
a monk said.

I ask,
“No medic?”

“One grey ash, too sere,”
monk said.

I ask,
“No man is alive?”

“Evil. A sin,”
a monk said.

I ask no mere soothsayer,
“Genocide?”

“ …. “
monk said.

I ask,
“No man is alone?”

#palindrome

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

Fall (palindrome)

Lear sits,
old, a maniac,
sees tired, lost, pure garden.

Madder Eve fades, pales.

Tin empires abase, rip men.

It’s elapsed—
A fevered, damned rage rupts.

Older, it sees Cain,
a mad, lost Israel.

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@LukeKennard Thank you, Luke. Because, for the aphantasic reader, the physical description of characters, interiors and vistas is like a cognitive bog to be waded through and I wish more authors would stop showing off with all their 'ooh look at me I've got a visual imagination' fanciness.

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@dc_scrabblegram Nice one! I didn't spot that. A pair of tree-dwelling birds' nests makes a very fine arboreal aerobra if you can't find one in the shops.

[Steven Fraser @Spoonerrhythms]

@dc_scrabblegram That's a nice idea. I've lost the habit lately. I'll have to climb out of my 'birch crib' and see if I can get my 'red root nib into order'!