Best Reversible Poems
Love’s journey, joy and tears,
Guided by grace through all the years.
Gotta love, in every guise,
Each chapter cherished, beneath the skies.
True love with God, tranquil and pure,
Promises eternal, pristine and sure.
Divine devotion, a destined delight,
Faithful forever, in the Father's light.
Memories murmur, melancholy in pairs.
Gone is the glow, a grievous gap glares,
Whispered words weep, wounds within deep.
Separation's sorrow, shadows silently sweep.
Tender touches, time transcends too soon.
She sings softly, serenades under the moon,
Laughter lingers long, lovely in twilight.
Living with love, life's luminous light.
Heartbeats hasten, hopes held high, hues of blue.
In anticipation, ardor awakens anew,
Gotta love the glowing gaze, a girl's gentle bloom.
Glimpses of grace in the gathering gloom.
Categories:
reversible, love,
Form:
Alliteration
Dreamers of Dreams
Incongruous realities of microcosmic minds
Torturous awakenings in lives raging reminds
Dormant and deceived are rapid eyes moving
Absorbent are neurons firing fluidly brewing
~
Images living through altered consciousness
Stages changing forever falling bottomless
Distortions within space of timeless events
Portions parallel admits mysterious segments
~
Death opening doors amongst dreams coming
Breath filled Angels of harmonics humming
Creation awaits upon celestial sailing seas
Imagination of paths through eternal keys.
...in reverse
Imagination of paths through eternal keys
Creation awaits upon celestial sailing seas
Breath filled Angels of harmonics humming
Death opening doors amongst dreams coming
~
Portions parallel admits mysterious segments
Distortions within space of timeless events
Stages changing forever falling bottomless
Images living through altered consciousness
~
Absorbent are neurons firing fluidly brewing
Dormant and deceived are rapid eyes moving
Torturous awakenings in lives raging reminds
Incongruous realities of microcosmic minds.
...in reverse and backward
Dreams of Dreamers
Keys eternal through paths of imagination
Seas sailing celestial upon awaits creation
Humming harmonics of Angels filled breath
Coming dreams amongst doors opening death
~
Segments mysterious admits parallel portions
Events timeless of space within distortions
Bottomless falling forever changing stages
Consciousness altered through living images
~
Brewing fluidly firing neurons are absorbent
Moving eyes rapid are deceived and dormant
Reminds raging lives in awakenings torturous
Minds microcosmic of realities incongruous.
Aug.28.2018
Winged Warrior...^WW^
Not for any contest
This poem is dedicated to my dear friend Silent One...in response to the recent passing of his Grandfather...and to my Mom, who passed away last Oct...may they always live in our dreams...
...I don't know if this form exists or if it's even acceptable...but is very challenging and fun...just for the heck of it...I'm calling it...a 360 Double Helix Reversible...if you have another title, please soup mail me...love & light... ^WW^
Categories:
reversible, death, destiny, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond from Walls of Sleep
Deep dormant eyes forever weep
Keep hells behind upon walls of sleep
Dancing demons in rituals necromancing
Glancing of gates admits infernos entrancing
Damned words resonating of souls scammed
Programmed lips through evil’s command
Hellion hypnotic of minds dwelling
Rebellion of thoughts forever yelling
Contortions spread sanctioned abortions
Distortions spread abandoned portions.
...in reverse
Distortions spread abandoned portions
Contortions spread sanctioned abortions
Rebellion of thoughts forever yelling
Hellion hypnotic of minds dwelling
Programmed lips through evil’s command
Damned words resonating of souls scammed
Glancing of gates admits infernos entrancing
Dancing demons in rituals necromancing
Keep hells behind upon walls of sleep
Deep dormant eyes forever weep.
...I took this a step further where the poem is reversed and each line is backward...
Sleep of Walls from Beyond
Portions abandoned spread distortions
Abortions sanctioned spread contortions
Yelling forever thoughts of rebellion
Dwelling minds of hypnotic hellion
Command evils through lips programmed
Scammed souls of resonating words damned
Entrancing infernos admits gates of glancing
Necromancing rituals in demons dancing
Sleep of walls upon behind hells keep
Weep forever eyes dormant deep.
...perhaps no double meaning, but double fun...
This poem is dedicated to my friend Gregory R Barden (the Bard)...inspired by his poem 'A Quest, Maniacal'...Thank you Gregory for your insight...
Music by Disturbed - Hell... Ghost Rider Music Video
Aug.20.2018
A Reversible Poem
Sponsored by: Jesse Rowe
Placed 6'th
Categories:
reversible, conflict, depression, silence,
Form:
Rhyme
There you are, my Earth!
I see you here next to our Moon
In this wondrous book- zoomed-in,
You shine above the rest
With cars and people everywhere-
Bridges, trains, skyscrapers, jets
Blue oceans with majestic ships-
Those wonders of our age,
Right here upon your sphere exist,
You great, important, busy, busy world.
There you are, my Earth-
and yet-
Where are you, Earth?
Amid this endless cloud of dust
I can barely see you- just a tiny dot
In this wondrous book, zoomed out,
I find you on this page with straining eye
So lost inside our giant Milky Way
A drifting grain of sand in time
A microscopic, whirling speck,
One of the millions, billions, trillions
Caught in cosmic winds with all the rest-
Where are you, Earth?
August 25, 2018
Contest: Wonderstruck Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Robert James Liguori
Reversible Poem: can be read downwards
and upwards.
Categories:
reversible, earth,
Form:
Free verse
I am
Weak
No more will I be
Able to walk straight
With my head held high, I am
Living a lie
I cannot continue on by
Rehearsing perfection to mask flaws
Under your shelter I reside to stop
The destruction of my esteem
I will not feed
The fire within
As my insecurities grow, so too does
My apathy
I have disavowed
My dreams of success
I can clearly see
My failure
I will overcome
Nothing
I will cease to be
And...
This I am
Categories:
reversible, blue, i am, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
In Backwards Land where ladies worship me,
And never cut my brilliant speeches short;
Where women celebrate adultery,
And feel the same as I; they’re merely sport;
Where broads don’t care how many kids I’ve got,
And care far less how many mothers by;
Where chicks acknowledge make-up makes ‘em hot,
And no mascara runs if bunnies die;
There, because then I’d be a perfect man,
Freed bulky baggage through which snoopers dig,
I’d rarely have to fear the frying pan
Greased up ‘n aimed at this chauvinist pig.
Ah, but a pipe-dream. How am I single?
Nevermind, dollies. Who wants to mingle?
1/30/17
Categories:
reversible, humorous,
Form:
Sonnet
The death of nearness:
it shuts the invite
I will ask moon for a targeted kill.
Move on, untouchable,
your tainted image
was unspectacularly terrible.
The contagious trachoma
has caught the impeccable face.
Do not tremble, I am burning in a glass,
a sisyphean ordeal of my choosing:
unpolluted, unthinkable,
in the body pain, flows like lava.
An eternal shredding of pigments
Unpeeling the smell of hate.
Can we go to our naked childhood ?
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
reversible, art
Form:
The death of nearness:
it shuts the invite
I will ask moon for a targeted kill.
Move on, untouchable,
your tainted image
was unspectacularly terrible.
The contagious trachoma
has caught the impeccable face.
Do not tremble, I am burning in a glass,
a sisyphean ordeal of my choosing:
unpolluted, unthinkable,
in the body pain, flows like lava.
An eternal shredding of pigments
Unpeeling the smell of hate.
Can we go to our naked childhood ?
Categories:
reversible, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form:
Fight your sickness
Within your mind
This Never-ending story.
Mirrors speak perverse sayings
As your body slowly forsakes you
Disease wreaks havoc on your soul
Wasted existence,
Forever now forgotten
Death is eternal.
8/21/2018
Categories:
reversible, death, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Full
of failure. I always feel
afraid
that I'm not
sufficient so
those I love are
left behind me.
The mistakes of my past are
what shape my present.
My hope and trust are
hurt
beyond
healing
There is
NO
redeeming me.
And what I believe is
that the hope of tomorrow
is fleeting, and all I know is
Emptiness
This is a reversible poem that can be read backwards (line by line) as well as forward.
In this case. The backwards reading has an opposite meaning.
Categories:
reversible, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
I sat there
Wondering
What was right
Thinking
What was wrong
Pondering
Its worth
Speculating about
Whether I should do it
Contemplating
"Is it worth it all?"
I asked myself
Although knowing the answer.
Said everyone loudly around me
" It's your call to make "
Though they silently said
"Do it"
I had never thought
"It would end like this"
The mind had said
"It's your only choice"
Had said the heart
"Please don't do it"
Have regrets, I don't care
Yes I shall
Pull the plug
I did not
Wait
I did not sit there
To see the ramification of my action.
When read upside down :
To see the ramifications of my action
I did not sit there
Wait
I did not
Pull the plug
Yes I shall
And so on....
Categories:
reversible, anxiety, future, girl, life,
Form:
Free verse
I am a diamond
In the rough, I start
Like a chip left short,
My subpar anatomy
I will not be defined by
What sparkles in the light
The dark spots fall within
Fear of failure like a lake
Against the currents, my head kept up,
Watching my fate approach
I will not sit idly by
For Nothing cannot sit
Inside these prism walls I stand
And then I begin again...
Categories:
reversible, anxiety, how i feel,
Form:
Control tries so hard, preparing it's comfort,
With a hard face and demeanor, holding us under,
Strangling the freedom to survive,
Can you tell if it's a loving disipline or manipulation disguised?,
Put a hold on that heart, because you can't handle,
The truth behind those words, because you think change would be a scandle,
Think before you speak, because feelings can run,
And turn it into something it's not before it's even begun,
And yet sometimes the guessing and assumptions must be,
In order to reverse our hearts later to see,
Feelings plummet, and our eyes open wide,
We start to see that sense of insecurity was all just a lie,
And was it really insecurity? Or a chance to learn?,
To prepare your heart for the next chapter for love to be heard,
These questions run through my mind, but seriously, why ask?,
When I know God is bringing my heart to love again and again,
Stretching love beyond our own knowledge,
I trust in your love, Lord, I know you got this!
Categories:
reversible, love,
Form:
Light Verse
I shall think of you, my love
with all my heart you’re mine
like an ivory turtle dove
in flight we shall be divine
you bestow deep adoration
with each touch and embrace
you are my God-given creation
throughout time and space
I shall need all of you, my dear
I crave your existence and mind
I have starved for you to be near
since the stars have aligned
we need not riches nor gems
all we have is what we are
when intense pain condemns
I shall wish upon our star
I shall fear not fate, my sweet
pure kismet shall be our destiny
when life feels like defeat
I shall carry your heart in me
believe me when I said do
vows were sworn with affection
I am so proud to married to you
for we have a perpetual connection
A Reversible Poem Poetry Contest
Jesse Rowe
August 21, 2018
Categories:
reversible, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Soft moonlight on silent lips—
a secret spark in midnight air.
Our breath meets in quiet longing,
a hush deeper than starlit stillness.
Your touch blooms—petals of dusk unfurl,
echoed in the pulse between our souls.
This silent kiss is moonlight spilled—
a pale river winding through still air,
carrying the taste of rose-thorns and longing,
soft as dew upon a lover’s skin.
Your soul leans in, a petal whispering secrets,
my heart folds like dusk over sleeping hills;
no words needed—this thrum of contact,
a hidden chord vibrating beneath quiet flesh.
We speak in the language of sighs:
the brush of eyelashes like wind-kissed lilies,
a hush that blooms between us,
delicate as frost upon a candle’s warmth.
Here, in that breath-long pause,
time slows to the pulse between us—
each heartbeat, a ripple; each exhale, a vow
etched invisible, yet felt in every vein.
Categories:
reversible, kiss,
Form:
Free verse