Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub  (posted by Grace)
Meeting The Bar:  Palinode

"A palinode or palinody is an ode or song that retracts or recants a view or sentiment to what the poet wrote in a previous poem."

In 1895, Gelett Burgess wrote his famous poem, the Purple Cow:

I never saw a purple cow.
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow
I’d rather see than be one.

Later in his life, he followed it with this palinode:

Ah yes, I wrote the purple cow!
I’m sorry now I wrote it!
But I can tell you anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it!


(second palinode to Purple Cow)

I want to see a purple cow
before I die, anyhow. 
If that cow does greet with bow
I'll have new friend, I avow.

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