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For each polyacrostic the text appears twice
I : plain text in black
II : Complete acrostic palimpsests highlighted without minor acrostics for the sake of clarity.
The second text is not readily readable as such because all punctuation and spacing is removed to show a letter by letter progression which will be seen to spell out certain phrases . These palimpsests or vertical and/or diagonal sentences are to all intents invisible on reading except for the acrostic at the head of each line - and, occasionally at the end.
The object of the exercise is to introduce readers to the way in which language can flow in unexpected ways.
To my knowledge these experiments have not been duplicated in English poetry in the forms shown.
Some formatted polyacrostics such as
Able Remeasured Sonnet
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2489619are now online at A.P. and all will be reviewed between July 18th and 20th 2007
Several poetical experiments are also included in this list, others may be found in the alliteration list. Some poems are present in more than one list.
Enjoy !
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The heart that sows is star that glows
In tune reel ran fed through rhyme’s fan,
Ends in well ran, begins “I can !” -
ALL FADES INTO NOTHINGNESS AT LAST,
FADES fast, flame flame attracts, itself devours.
INTO Time’s vacuum hours suction hours – -
A to Z of all I hate
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"Aim to please her" arms lines entered, see
Neat chart is furnished from all error free.71 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 8 6:51 PM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic Sonnet, Humor. Reward -
Adored and angelic Amelia. Accept an ardent and artless amourist’s affections, alleviate an anguished admirer’s alarms, answer an amorous
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An authentically aware altruist adorns AP as author artist always a-musing and anathema all argumentT urns to thread trust, truth, then tenderness.
ONly ONe ONline ONeiric ONerousless
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Aristocratic amourist's angel,
always admired, attracts acclaim,
alliterative, amiable, admits artistic aim. -
Upon our earth everywhere, as g00d is in all as all, within its one time cocoon hibernating anticipating due awakening,
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with empathy flowing both forwards and back
I feed from my need, live from need to give back. -
Care, a core value, can't be traded, each
As muse whose human quality warms air,
Meets time as team well matched, as magic pair. -
Time time defies. Change may initiate
Insight, vision new, expands to date -
Clap Clap-Trap Trap
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TIME, TIDE, DRAW A LIT TRAP, SPOOL DUAL LIVE ON EYE NO EVIL LAUD LOOPS PART TIL AWARD EDIT, EMIT.238 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 22 10:58 PM 2007. In Time, Society, Acrostic, Palindrome, Humor. Reward
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Our
World -
What happens at the closing of my eyes ? happens in that sleep which all must know at the beginning’s end, when fast and slow, the tide’s u16 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 4 4:16 PM. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest. Reward
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FIT LINT, IF, FIN, IN FLINT to start FIRST phrase
LIT, LATER LIFTS, OUR explanation clears, -
HE triptoed to and fro between her energy's go glow and fractal reflections of her parallel factual reality relays in fact, fiction and fan
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Methodical Acrostic Review Too Inadequate, Not Edited...
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When rhyme scheme frames dimensions few suspect
then climb dream flames, intentions true, respect. -
Idyll ideal's no mirage as free spirits start
Enchanting voyage, may a new world chart ... -
I doat on ready smile, fair grace, solar, timeless, doubts does chase. Real miracle, fate’s song I lace, ‘Tis door adored, might fancy sola
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Peace - End, Aim - Chance Ever Extraordinary As Choice Enables Prosperity Authentic Creativity Empowerment Proven Expansion, Convergence
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Posts, email packets, we would trace out here -
argued f[r]ee experience on the Internet
lies paint to tease or problem air has set -
Polyacrostic - J to J Jest Gest
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Reward - roses near - reveals her in mirror write.
To show yet ardour, thread at hand. Try trophy bright61 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 8 10:30 AM 2007. In Personal, Other, Humor, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, Writing, Poetics. Reward -
Polyacrostic Palimpsest
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Gauge glad echo if Chance melt frost my dear,
I come now, string on flowers sprightly here.78 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 9 9:46 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, humour, love. Reward -
My muse in rhyme here's summoned to adorn,
Answering prayer deep, heart loud and clear -
Renaissance near, revealing wonder real
Takes heart, I draw the blinds and truth unreel !70 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 9 3:08 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, Humor. Reward -
Polyacrostic Palimpsest - Platitudes Refused
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Polyacrostic palimpsest sonnet
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Open your hearts and happiness will become true
Or foster new hopes, giving joy anew
What Enterprise137 lines, 33 comments, on Jan 4 9:44 AM 2007. In Brainteaser, Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic Sonnet, Humor -
Polyacrostic palimpsest
The Pencil traces yet another line ... -
Notes on Polyacrostic Palimpsests
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Where collective conscious would connivingly construct wishy-washy idealized autoportrait,58 lines, on Jan 6 6:19 PM 2007. In Society, Polyacrostic Palimpsest
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Who knows what in our future lies ahead,
How will man's banana skin unpeel,
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Artist ideal meet as doubt erased sets measure,
True leisure is my law, elated, ... Treasure !142 lines, 23 comments, on Jan 6 11:43 AM 2007. In Writing, Polyacrostic, Humor, Palindrome, Palimpsest, Poetics -
Stitch heart's sheath ... Has stretch tic caught toc - chart terrific ? I treat thrombi, inspect tempi, intact.
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may the universe be a mind unto itself,frame form spurning former formal form frames as fresh fusion transforms confusion into a cohesive
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Sense, selflessness, strength surely signed,
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Spring warms life now soft-scented breeze,
Summer sends cheer, days fair and long, -
Life is at ease, land under plough
whispers, receives free-grazing cow.428 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 25 5:46 AM 2007. In Nature, Poetical Experimentation. Reward -
Imprinted on the tablets of the brain, wave mesh of integrated circuits seems scene window holographic, time's reels gain momentum as kale
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a night, what delight beyond dreams !
a week would be bliss I would bleed for, -
“A great while ago the world begun,
and we’ll strive to please you every one !”
Mist melted from the mountain grey859 lines, 24 comments, on Feb 5 12:14 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Humor, Literature, Nature, Parody, ad infinitum et ad vitam
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Stanza stanza swift succeeding senses sweeps, song swifter swims, succulent succession seeding substitutions, surface skims.
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Sylvia and Sylvie ... not quite twins Enjoy !
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Time spins headlong, helter-skelter, alpha omega its hum, innate energy refocussed, hocus-pocus drawing blind, extra frequencies as harmoni
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Drip, drip, drip, slip trip
trickle ignores Time’s sickle
drop, drop, drop crypt tic47 lines, 4 comments, on May 23 6:23 AM. In Writing, Polyacrostic, Humor, Palindrome, Palimpsest, Poetics, Sonnet, Haiku. Reward -
Rewarding worth the spirit shines to free
THe self for new dimensions, - learns to be ...
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A bird soft sings – one robin is enough –
to sway ten trillion stars as ball of fluff103 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 16 8:48 AM 2007. In Spiritual -
With inside out, and out, surprised, inside !
When penning verse whose end may, too, begin it,
When rhyming reel with real can coincide -
Polyacrostic - J to J Jest Gest
See Don't Lift A... buy oneluckygirl
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2446393
and the reply Heart hears Finger ... Jonathan Robin
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2432587
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with empathy flowing both forwards and back
I feed from my need, live from need to give back. -
Adored and angelic Amelia. Accept an ardent and artless amourist’s affections, alleviate an anguished admirer’s alarms, answer an amorous
-
Clap Clap-Trap Trap
-
Stanza stanza swift succeeding senses sweeps, song swifter swims, succulent succession seeding substitutions, surface skims.
-
a night, what delight beyond dreams !
a week would be bliss I would bleed for, -
-
Time spins headlong, helter-skelter, alpha omega its hum, innate energy refocussed, hocus-pocus drawing blind, extra frequencies as harmoni
-
Polyacrostic - J to J Jest Gest
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Open your hearts and happiness will become true
Or foster new hopes, giving joy anew
What Enterprise137 lines, 33 comments, on Jan 4 9:44 AM 2007. In Brainteaser, Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic Sonnet, Humor -
My muse in rhyme here's summoned to adorn,
Answering prayer deep, heart loud and clear -
Polyacrostic Palimpsest
-
Stitch heart's sheath ... Has stretch tic caught toc - chart terrific ? I treat thrombi, inspect tempi, intact.
-
Polyacrostic palimpsest sonnet
-
Artist ideal meet as doubt erased sets measure,
True leisure is my law, elated, ... Treasure !142 lines, 23 comments, on Jan 6 11:43 AM 2007. In Writing, Polyacrostic, Humor, Palindrome, Palimpsest, Poetics -
Polyacrostic Palimpsest - Platitudes Refused
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Who knows what in our future lies ahead,
How will man's banana skin unpeel,
-
Where collective conscious would connivingly construct wishy-washy idealized autoportrait,58 lines, on Jan 6 6:19 PM 2007. In Society, Polyacrostic Palimpsest
-
Notes on Polyacrostic Palimpsests
. -
Sylvia and Sylvie ... not quite twins Enjoy !
-
Reward - roses near - reveals her in mirror write.
To show yet ardour, thread at hand. Try trophy bright61 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 8 10:30 AM 2007. In Personal, Other, Humor, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, Writing, Poetics. Reward -
"Aim to please her" arms lines entered, see
Neat chart is furnished from all error free.71 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 8 6:51 PM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic Sonnet, Humor. Reward -
Renaissance near, revealing wonder real
Takes heart, I draw the blinds and truth unreel !70 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 9 3:08 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, Humor. Reward -
Gauge glad echo if Chance melt frost my dear,
I come now, string on flowers sprightly here.78 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 9 9:46 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, humour, love. Reward -
Time time defies. Change may initiate
Insight, vision new, expands to date -
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An authentically aware altruist adorns AP as author artist always a-musing and anathema all argumentT urns to thread trust, truth, then tenderness.
ONly ONe ONline ONeiric ONerousless
-
Idyll ideal's no mirage as free spirits start
Enchanting voyage, may a new world chart ... -
Rewarding worth the spirit shines to free
THe self for new dimensions, - learns to be ...
-
A bird soft sings – one robin is enough –
to sway ten trillion stars as ball of fluff103 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 16 8:48 AM 2007. In Spiritual -
With inside out, and out, surprised, inside !
When penning verse whose end may, too, begin it,
When rhyming reel with real can coincide -
Peace - End, Aim - Chance Ever Extraordinary As Choice Enables Prosperity Authentic Creativity Empowerment Proven Expansion, Convergence
-
TIME, TIDE, DRAW A LIT TRAP, SPOOL DUAL LIVE ON EYE NO EVIL LAUD LOOPS PART TIL AWARD EDIT, EMIT.238 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 22 10:58 PM 2007. In Time, Society, Acrostic, Palindrome, Humor. Reward
-
Life is at ease, land under plough
whispers, receives free-grazing cow.428 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 25 5:46 AM 2007. In Nature, Poetical Experimentation. Reward -
Spring warms life now soft-scented breeze,
Summer sends cheer, days fair and long, -
The heart that sows is star that glows
In tune reel ran fed through rhyme’s fan,
Ends in well ran, begins “I can !” -
When rhyme scheme frames dimensions few suspect
then climb dream flames, intentions true, respect. -
I doat on ready smile, fair grace, solar, timeless, doubts does chase. Real miracle, fate’s song I lace, ‘Tis door adored, might fancy sola
-
“A great while ago the world begun,
and we’ll strive to please you every one !”
Mist melted from the mountain grey859 lines, 24 comments, on Feb 5 12:14 AM 2007. In Poetics, Writing, Humor, Literature, Nature, Parody, ad infinitum et ad vitam
-
Upon our earth everywhere, as g00d is in all as all, within its one time cocoon hibernating anticipating due awakening,
-
Methodical Acrostic Review Too Inadequate, Not Edited...
-
Sense, selflessness, strength surely signed,
-
may the universe be a mind unto itself,frame form spurning former formal form frames as fresh fusion transforms confusion into a cohesive
-
FIT LINT, IF, FIN, IN FLINT to start FIRST phrase
LIT, LATER LIFTS, OUR explanation clears, -
HE triptoed to and fro between her energy's go glow and fractal reflections of her parallel factual reality relays in fact, fiction and fan
-
Polyacrostic palimpsest
The Pencil traces yet another line ... -
Our
World -
A to Z of all I hate
-
Posts, email packets, we would trace out here -
argued f[r]ee experience on the Internet
lies paint to tease or problem air has set -
Aristocratic amourist's angel,
always admired, attracts acclaim,
alliterative, amiable, admits artistic aim. -
Care, a core value, can't be traded, each
As muse whose human quality warms air,
Meets time as team well matched, as magic pair. -
Drip, drip, drip, slip trip
trickle ignores Time’s sickle
drop, drop, drop crypt tic47 lines, 4 comments, on May 23 6:23 AM. In Writing, Polyacrostic, Humor, Palindrome, Palimpsest, Poetics, Sonnet, Haiku. Reward -
What happens at the closing of my eyes ? happens in that sleep which all must know at the beginning’s end, when fast and slow, the tide’s u16 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 4 4:16 PM. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest. Reward
-
Imprinted on the tablets of the brain, wave mesh of integrated circuits seems scene window holographic, time's reels gain momentum as kale
-
ALL FADES INTO NOTHINGNESS AT LAST,
FADES fast, flame flame attracts, itself devours.
INTO Time’s vacuum hours suction hours –
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