Constraints :
- 1. Text can be read both backwards and forwards, word-by-word.
- 2. Text has an odd number of words.
- 3. The middle word means the opposite of the first (and hence the last) word
Dark,
the outside trains the eyes detective. Visiting, the rising sun, comforting somewhat
the collapsed stars as children their cherished dinosaurs, plays the distracting role :
leading his following bloomers, billowing cecilias, above
the fray, growing blindly. Miscalculations, stony as planets, puncture the
order eternal; and sublime justices suspect criminals subliminal.
Prosecution and defense both move that words are untrustworthy
vehicles, shrieking bloody murder : of evidences only the truly
material matter. Is this rule the fixed star's directing? Answers
the detective: self-deceptive the promises, virtuous the
compromising. Duty of dereliction engineers corrupt
conduct. Intent Lucifers whisper clues,
convincing lunatics to cleave shadows
as moon's following departed.
Those of vision tunnel
inside the
light
the inside
tunnel vision of those
departed, following moons as
shadows cleave to lunatics. Convincing
clues whisper Lucifer's intent : conduct
corrupt engineers. Dereliction of duty, compromising
the virtuous, promises the self-deceptive detective the
answers. Directing stars fixed the rule : this is matter material,
truly the only evidences of murder : bloody, shrieking vehicles.
Untrustworthy are words that move both defense and prosecution,
subliminal criminals. Suspect justices, sublime and eternal, order
the puncture : planets as stony miscalculations, blindly growing, fray the
above cecilias, billowing bloomers, following his leading
role, distracting the plays. Dinosaurs cherished their children, as stars collapsed the
somewhat comforting sun. Rising, the visiting detective eyes the trains outside the
dark.
Note : the above is an extract from my book Murder by (Loco)motive. Prior to the publication of that book, I published this poem as an NFT.