A recent discovery that I have found fascinating is a reversible poem -- a poem with word choices that read the same from the last to the first as from the first to the last. Author Marilyn Singer offers the following sample on her website from her collection Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Poems – illustrated by Josee Masse; Dutton/Penguin, 2010.
In this unique collection of reversible verse, classic fairy tales are turned on their heads. Literally. Read these clever poems from top to bottom. Then reverse the lines and read from bottom to top to give these well-loved stories a delicious new spin.
IN REVERSE by Marilyn Singer
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