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Things That Go Bump in the Night

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 MindLoveMisery's Menagerie Wordle # 293  I wrote a mirror, or palindrome poem with this week's Wordle prompt words.  A mirror poem is written in two halves, with the lines from the first half repeated in the second, but in reverse order.   There is often a bridge word or two between the halves.  Here, I've used a three word bridge. A palindrome is a word, numbers, sequence, phrase, etc. that reads the same forward and back.  Here ( ← link)is a wonderful example of a mirror poem, much better than I can accomplish!  It's not as easy as it sounds, in fact, many find it much harder!  Thankfully, poetry has license to take liberties, one of which I took with punctuation.  I wouldn't be surprised if you find a mistake, as I tend to get lost trying to get the order of the words straight... or... backwards. Prompt words in red. Dawn willing . With fevered brow , turning and tossing , twisting sheets. My dreams troubled . Slowly tick...