Analytical—Anagrammatical
Blame Judey Kalchik, at least a little. And my own love of wordplay, whimsy, science and challenging thought provocation.
Easting Teasing
pause—...—
reflect
Sergeant negaters
pause—...—
inflect
Eatings Ingesta
cause.../
infect
estrange grantees
cause.../
inflict
Ingates Seating
g a u z e
reapply
greatens reagents
g a u z e
re/align|
Empires Emprise
Epimers Imprese
Premies Premise Spireme
{Sainted} (Stained)
pause—...—
reflect
reagents greatens
pause—...—
inflect
Nidates Detains
cause.../
infect
grantees estrange
cause.../
inflict
Instead Destain
g a u z e
reapply
negaters sergeant
g a u z e
re/align|
Artiest Artiste
Iratest Attires
Striate Tastier Ratites
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Thanks for reading!
Author's Notes: This is inspired by Judey Kalchik's Anagram Poem and Unofficial Challenge (details beneath the blurb) from a while ago. I will not go into the meaning and interpretation I was going for with this when writing/editing it. I'll leave that up to you, clever people! Can't wait to read your comments.
It is made up of anagrams of the following words:
Estrange
Tastier
Empires
and a few well-chosen and well-placed additional words.
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Comments (12)
Love how you took the challenge to the next level! So many fun puzzling lines to untangle! Going to have to return to this…
Never tried this style. Really made a great poem. Lots of awesome flow and rhythm
Clever people? You overestimate me haha! Interesting work. I do like anagrams and missed the unofficial challenge. 😊
Lol, this looks like a dyslexic person's worst nightmare! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But it was brilliant! 🍩🥐
I have to say that you enjoy tossing obtuse puzzles at your fans and expecting us to pull a tasty ratite out of a hat. But I don't know. Do people eat penguins or kiwi or ostriches? Do they taste like chicken? And what exactly do ratites have to do with logic and argumentation? Or does logic have to do with preemies and simple cell division? (I tried to look up premies but came up with bupkis). And there was an awful lot of gauze in this poetic anagram thingee. Is that in case we draw blood instead of meaning from this Gordian Knot of a poem? Well, I'm busted. Let's take a moment to see how the rest of you did.... Several bupkis's and a couple of folk who claim to understand and elected not to share their personal revelations with us poor nincompoops.
Another musing by the mysterious mind of Sir Paul!! Also... my brain can't unsee this sooo I need to share it! When you do this symbol —...— I see this emoji 😑 I don't think you intend it this way but that's my broken brain for you!! 😅
At first I saw gibberish, then Ah, yes, i got it. You are quite witty.
Well damn! Epimers imprese, amen.
This was a wordsmithing delight :) I so appreciated the shift from those one word lines, just little nuances. Loved it!! I never got to do my pi poem :( Too much happened this past week for me to get it right.
A wordplay extravaganza! Well done. Now, let me go see if I can take on another challenge...
Damnit. I need to read this again, bit I need more coffee first.
Good work and it had its' own rhythm too.