DUSK TO DAWN
This poem is a
"gimmick", that is it is constructed to fit an unusual
pattern. It is "palindromic" in a sense. It is not a real
palindrome like "A man, a plan, a canal- Panama" where the
letters mirror each other. Instead the sounds of whole words
mirror each other in the two sections of two verses each.
As a result the
lines rhyme at the start as well as the end. Note it is the sounds
and not the spellings of words that I have used. The one bit of
"cheating" is the transference of the short "ah"
sound from away in the first part to afar in the second. The natural
phenomena of dawn and dusk are also in a way a reversal of each other. This piece was very hard to create and as a result I
don't think I'll ever write another quite like it.
DUSK
TO DAWN
(Vice Versa)
Rays
of sun now burn and shine.
Haze
of red, horizon's line,
Gleams
and glows now far away,
Beams
with dreams dissolving day.
So
it comes and this is born-
Glow
with dusk reversing dawn.
Light
of hours now goes to dark,
Night
removing daylight's spark.
...............................................
Spark
lights day, removing night.
Dark
too goes, now hours of light
Dawn,
reversing dusk with glow.
Born
is this and comes it so.
Day,
dissolving dreams with beams,
Way
afar now glows and gleams.
Line
horizons, red of haze!
Shine
and burn now, sun of rays!
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