National Backward Day 31.1.19

National Backward Day 31.1.19

All manner of trouble is to be found 
When Backwards Day turns things around. 
A shaggy DOG is now a GOD,
Your trusted DOC is just a COD,
LIVE show hosts host EVIL guests,
You order DESSERTS but just get STRESSED.
LAGER louts become REGAL sorts 
Drinking noisily through their WARTS.
PUPILS SLIP UP in A level stats
And the sky at night is full of RATS.
Poor old SEMORDNILLAPS* -
Backwards Day creates mishaps. 

But all is not lost on Backwards Day 
As PALLINDROMES** read either way...
So ABBA survives,
Both SEXES alive,
SOLOS are sung,
And SAGAS begun.
A KAYAK remains a lowly boat,
A RACECAR speeds but doesn’t float. 
Pallindrome thoughts that are rather odd:
DAMMIT I’M MAD and DO GEESE SEE GOD?


Rachel McCoubrie 31.1.19

*SEMORDNILLAPS = words that become a different word when spelled backwards
**PALLINDROMES = words that read the same forwards and backwards

National Pie Day

I am married to a man who loves his pies as much as I love chocolate, so I thought I'd write him a poem for National Pie Day:


I Spy...

I spy, it’s my little pie
There’s something beginning with P.
It’s the Pastry crust,
An absolute must,
It’s bronzed perfection to me.

I spy, it’s my little pie
There’s something beginning with I.
It’s the Inside delights,
Meat hidden from sight,
I live for that steak and ale high.

I spy, it’s my little pie
There’s something beginning with E.
It’s Eating it, quick
Each bite, each lick
Gobbling up with such glee...

I spy, with my little eye,
My husband has raided the fridge.
He’s eaten my pie,
He cannot deny.
That’s vexed me more than a smidge. 



Rachel McCoubrie 24.1.19

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