Clever Christian stuff

[septimus]

If you concatenate such a poem and its reversal, you get a line palindrome poem, in which a message of despair may change to a message of hope (or vice versa). I mentioned one at SDMB in an earlier thread:

@septimus

There’s a famous line palindrome which reverses meaning backward despite that each line is the same. If you’ve never seen it, “The lost generation poem - you can reverse it” might be worth a look. [I’ve replaced the earlier link to a link to the Wayback Machine’s copy.]

Here’s a Youtube of several young people reading the poem.

Here’s another line palindrome poem.