Word Games

  

PALINDROME

 

Go deliver a dare, vile dog!

Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog!

God to Hanoi on a hot dog

God saw I was a dog

"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod

Do geese see God?

Don't nod

Dogma: I am God

 

OXYMORA

 

Exact Estimate, Same Difference

Free Love, Military Intelligence

Extinct Life, Clearly Confused

Deafening Silence, Old News

Liquid Gas, Constant Variable

Working Holiday, Hell's Angel

Larger Half, Civil Engineer

Found Missing, Alone Together

Plastic Glasses, Virtual Reality

Only Choice, Definite Maybe

Rolling Stop, Minor Crisis

Open Secret, Original Copies

Living Dead, Genuine Imitation

Even Odds, Unbiased Opinion

 

ACRONYM

 

Cows Often Sit Down Carefully

Perhaps Their Joints Creak?

Persistent Early Oiling Might

Prevent Painful Rheumatism

 

PALINDROME THE SEQUEL

 

Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna

A Toyota! Race fast... safe car... a Toyota

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Ah, Satan sees Natasha

 

Lisa Bonet ate no basil.

Live not on evil, madam, live not on evil

Lived on Decaf, faced no Devil.

Live, O Devil, revel ever, live, do evil.

 

Dennis, no misfit can act if Simon sinned.

Denim axes examined.

Desserts, I stressed!

Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived!

ACRONYM PROSE STYLE

 

Toronto Girls Can Flirt

And Other Queer Things Can Do

General Eisenhower's Oldest Girl

Rode A Pony Home Yesterday

Father Charles Goes

Down And Ends Battle

Richard Of York

Gave Battle In Vain

Kids Prefer Cheese

Over Fried Green Spinach.

My Very Easy Method

Just Set Up Nine Planets

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

Furry Animals Cook Excellently

Good Boys Do Fine, Always.

All Cows Eat Grass.

Not Every Cat Eats Sardines

Shrimps, And Rabbit Yogurt

 

PANGRAMS

 

Jump by vow of quick, lazy strength in Oxford

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz

And Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

 

PALINDROME REVISITED

 

Ned, I am a maiden

Never odd or even

Ned, go gag Ogden

Nate bit a Tibetan

 

RETURN TO PALINDROME

 

So many dynamos

Some men interpret nine memos

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

Sad, I'm Midas

Suneva, Nina is sure Russian in a Venus

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus

 

RETURN TO PALINDROME AGAIN

 

Madam, in Eden I'm Adam

May a moody baby doom a yam?

No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention

No trace; not one carton

Dammit, I'm mad!

Dairy myriad

Must sell at tallest sum

Murder for a jar of red rum

Too bad, I hid a boot

Too far, Edna, we wander afoot

Rats ailed, damn it, in mad Delia's tar!

Rats live on no evil star

Doom an evil deed, liven a mood

Do, O God, no evil deed, live on, do good