This week’s Poet of the Week for the W3 Poetry Prompt #106 is Punam Sharma. Punam’s challenge is to write a Palindrome poem (and if one is feeling ambitious, to write it on a theme of gratitude).
This is my first attempt at the form, so I kept my poem, Step Lightly and Lightly Step, short and simple as it’s difficult to write lines that make sense in reverse and forward. It is difficult, isn’t it? ~ It isn’t difficult, is it?
Step Lightly and Lightly Step
Think to dream and dream to think
Knowing not or not knowing
It goes around and around goes it
Going forward is forward going
Step lightly and lightly step
~gladly~
Step lightly and lightly step
going forward is forward going
it goes around and around goes it
Knowing not or not knowing
Think to dream and dream to think
~
Lesley Scoble, May 2024
Time-lapse video of my sketch (25 secs)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank you, Punam, Punam, you thank for this incredible palindromic challenge! I’ve had a lot of fun puzzling over it.
My deep gratitude to David, The Skeptics Kaddish, for your inspiration and encouragement.
Image credit: by yours truly
(Step Lightly and Lightly Step | Digital ink drawing©️Lesley Scoble)
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.
LesleyScoble.com 
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