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Name:Daniel
Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Me: I used to believe that evolution was reasonable, that homosexuality was genetic, and that people became Christians because they couldn't deal with the 'reality' that this life was all there was. I used to believe, that if there was a heaven - I could get there by being good - and I used to think I was more or less a good person. I was wrong on all counts. One day I finally had my eyes opened and I saw that I was not going to go to heaven, but that I was certainly going to suffer the wrath of God for all my sin. I saw myself as a treasonous rebel at heart - I hated God for creating me just to send me to Hell - and I was wretched beyond my own comprehension. Into this spiritual vacuum Jesus Christ came and he opened my understanding - delivering me from God's wrath into God's grace. I was "saved" as an adult, and now my life is hid in Christ. I am by no means sinless, but by God's grace I am a repenting believer - a born again Christian.
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Daniel's posts are almost always pastoral and God centered. I appreciate and am challenged by them frequently. He has a great sense of humor as well.
- Marc Heinrich
His posts are either funny or challenging. He is very friendly and nice.
- Rose Cole
[He has] good posts, both the serious like this one, and the humorous like yesterday. [He is] the reason that I have restrained myself from making Canadian jokes in my posts.
- C-Train
This post contains nothing that is of any use to me. What were you thinking? Anyway, it's probably the best I've read all day.
- David Kjos
Daniel, nicely done and much more original than Frank the Turk.
- Jonathan Moorhead
There are some people who are smart, deep, or funny. There are not very many people that are all 3. Daniel is one of those people. His opinion, insight and humor have kept me coming back to his blog since I first visited earlier this year.
- Carla Rolfe
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Friday Fun..
The Great Haiku Palindrome Challenge! |
Easy enough; create an ORIGINAL haiku (a three sentence poem, whose first and last sentences have five syllables each, and whose middle sentence has seven syllables) which is simultaneously a palindrome (reads the same forwards as it does backwards).
Here are three of my own (original) examples...
I'm a live denim,
regal no? Bob on lager
mine Devil am I!
a video dry
trample here madam ere help
martyr doe diva
I saw thou lusting
I bare paper a big nit
Sulu oh twas I
This is not a challenge for the timid, or weary.
Have at it. It's Friday.Labels: haiku, Palindromes |
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I am just saying up front, that those of us who compose palindromes in haiku, we are, a rare kind of people... but that's probably better for society anyway.
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I'm a groomed otter,
A mad ad amaretto,
demo orgami!
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Are we nanotubes?
oh repaid diaper hose! but,
on a new era
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As soon as I figure out just one of yours, I might try one of my own.
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Hey, these don't actually mean anything, do they?
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I don't think I can
play this game. Aaaa! Emag siht yalp
nac I kniht tnod I.
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I am personally finding it quite challenging to write palidromes that make sense, let alone in haiku.
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Yeah, I've been trying, but I can't even do one that doesn't make sense. I admit, you've bested me. Not that that's anything to brag about.
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I love the haiku posts, but I cannot for the life of me do a palindrome! Daniel...you are really good at this!
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The trick to writing a palindrome is that you are writing from both ends at the same time.
The best way to start is with a semordnilap (a word that means one thing spelled forward, but means another spelled backwards, e.g. era:are, Am:Ma, etc.)
I will try stressed:dessert...
Stressed on : no dessert.
Then I think of a word that works on both sides.... (decaf:faced fits)
Stressed on decaf eh?
--middle missing yet--
He faced no dessert.
I added the eh? because it worked on the other end too, and made up the fifth syllable. Now I just need seven syllables of filler.
We could put in:
slap-laced racecar decal pal
as the middle, but we would have to add an "s" to "he" in the third line, making it a "she".
Stressed on decaf eh?
slap-laced racecar decal pal?
She faced no dessert!
It doesn't make much sense, but given more time and effort I suppose it could. It takes about ten minutes to make one.
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um, that should be...
Stressed on decaf eh?
slap-laced racecar decal pal?
She faced no desserts!
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OK, here goes:
Dan, ogre blogger,
gets omit ti most, e.g.,
reggolber gonad
Sorry, I included one non-word, I couldn't help it. I wanted it to make sense, but after the first line I gave up.
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David, I find it easier with more practice.
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No David Kjos ere,
spoons repair diaper snoop ere,
so "jk" Diva Don!
David, your name is terribly difficult to fit into a palindrome haiku. FYI.
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That should read:
No David Kjos ere,
spoons repair diaper snoops ere,
so "jk" Diva Don!
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Maybe if I try something more elementary:
a b c d e
f g h i h g f
e d c b a
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I tried but I just can't do it, Daniel.
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Rose, my palindrome haiku's are pretty lame, so the bar is set real, real low. It is almost impossible to make a palindrome coherent after the first word or so. So don't feel pressure to make things perfect. ;)
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I even have to correct my last one again...
No David Kjos ere,
spoons repaid diaper snoops ere,
so "jk" Diva Don!
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To help you people out, try starting out with a list of words that are palindromes in and of themselves, then look up a list of semordnilaps, and finally, find a crossword helping site that lets you look up English words that start with, or end with, letter combinations.
With these tools in hand (as it were) even someone like myself can come up with a Palindrome haiku in no time.
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Daniel writes,
"[After spending hours hunting up lists and tools and learning how to use them], even someone like myself can come up with a Palindrome haiku in no time."
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Sadly David, my google chops are quite fine. I found all the tools I needed in under five minutes.
Initial query: palindrome
looked at wiki entry.
Saw offsite link at bottom to semordnilaps... clicked through.
estimated time? hmm, about what, 30 seconds.
Next I searched for the string "words that end in u" which brought up a wonderful crossword tool, that I used to some effect (about another 30 seconds).
With just these, I was able to slap together some quicksilver palindrome haiku.
I think it took me, about twenty minutes to [1] come up with the idea, [2] find the palindrome tool links and [3] write the post [3b]including the three initial haiku's.
hours.... pffff.
lol. <---- lazy old laugh.
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I sat on evil
How as I won, now I saw
Oh live not as I
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Prophet - that was the best one so far.
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"Madam, I, Glenelg, I’m Adam!"
That's a good one..
If only my name was Adam ;_;
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I sat on Evil indeed. Brilliant.
War is rafts, if we
face moths – a dash to Meca.
Few fist Farsi raw.
--Sagadon
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sees back line, vow wars
live one sea, stats ease no evils
raw, woven ilk, cab sees
desserts race, fast ate
bed lit tips, sexes spit tiled
bet at safe car, stressed
I worry at how enjoyable this is :)
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I tried to extend the famous palindrome, "A man, A plan, A canal: Panama" into a haiku form.
A man, a plan, nut
Dell EPS sim, misspelled
tunnal, Panama
EPS being an acronym for External Power Supply for a computer or phone.
It makes limited sense, but I'm proud of my "misspelled tunnal" bit.
~Danny
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Deliah saw Bob
He lived as a devil, eh?
Bob... was hailed!
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Thanks for the tips! There extremely helpful. Linguistics and etymology and words in general are bloody awesome. Yous guy here are cool, there's a pretty good number of people who are in love with words and the syntax and the poetic nature of words placed in particular order... I enherited it from my mum, who is the same way. We are born again Christians and I was just reading the King James translation of God's Word and (naturally The Song of Solomon is poetic) dang, there is such poetry jam packed in the Bible. Anyway, thanks again for the help, and stay awesome. ✌️
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Because we're talking about palindromes, I gotta ask, do you happen to also watch Twin Peaks? I do, and David Lynch's humor tends to closely match my weirdo twisted and odd humor. I can't stand it though when a creator of a narrative feels the perverse desire to almost always throw a large chunk of homosexuality and or nudity and sex into a story. That's how the prince of the power of the air operates: fleshly lustfulness, and also naturally, to normalize sexual perversion in society. Those of us who have our eyes opened by The Truth, the Way and the Life thankfully have insight into the nature of the world and how Satan manipulates people. A cool Christian YouTuber named L.A. Marzulli, sometimes refers to the Word as "The Guidebook to the Supernatural", which I think is accurate.
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I am just saying up front, that those of us who compose palindromes in haiku, we are, a rare kind of people... but that's probably better for society anyway.