Poem: Moriarty vs. Holmes: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Moriarty vs. Holmes [foil]
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
Form: Palindrome poem
For: the monthly prompt: foil

sorry end, this is
fall water
wits matching? minds matching? unlikely
the purportedly, the truly great
undeniably nears battle
fly to spider
you save inadequate foes who never suffer to cleave, own one’s demons
Holmes versus Moriarty, is it?
gnawing idleness
foolish adversary, trying so hard
work of art,
the perfect
foil
perfect the art of work
hard, so trying
adversary, foolish idleness, gnawing
it is Moriarty versus Holmes
demons, one’s own, cleave
to suffer, never who?
foes, inadequate, save you,
spider-to-fly battle nears
undeniably great, truly
the purportedly, the unlikely
matching minds
matching wits
waterfall
is this end?
sorry

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Very clever! An excellent contrast.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow that's a perfect icon for the poem, no?

Thank you. I am trying to write an ode to an omlette for last month's poetry page but got sidetracked by this palindrome. I hope it's evident that the first half is Moriarty and then second half is Holmes. Moriarty scoffs at Holmes as a true adversary because he's so reckless and undisciplined and Holmes relishing confrontation because it distracts from his true nemesis which is boredom.

[smallhobbit]

It is - I so rarely have the opportunity to use it.

Yes, I did think the first half was Moriarty and the second half Holmes - I thought it very clever the way you managed to differentiate the two.

[gardnerhill]

Brilliant.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw. Thanks!