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