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Seed:  onion
Time:  5 minutes

I was writing a critique of a story on critters.org and ended a sentence with the phrase "in my opinion." I automatically read opinion backwards, finding little. Then I thought of onion and saw "no i no." That had potential so I spent a few minutes on it and came up with this.

Seed:  origami
Time:  30 minutes

Starting from the seed origami, the first line below almost leapt off the screen. I chose the im-a-giro split. Though the contraction "I'm" is not in the Palindromedary, it was an obvious possibility. Both giro and giros were in the words list for the right fragment. Originally, giro was short for autogiro, an early precursor to the helicopter. Some also use that spelling for the Greek sandwich, properly called a gyros. Though I spent half an hour trying to expand the palindrome, the first line remains the best.

* I'm a giros origami
* llama I'm a giros origami a mall
* Alive! I'm a giros origami evil A.
* Liam, I'm a giros origami, mail
* Liana, I'm a giros origami, a nail.
* Sega, listen. I'm a giros origami, net silage's
* Mao, listen. I'm a giros origami, net Siloam
* So, listen. I'm a giros origami, net silos.

This palindrome wrapped up my experiment. I managed to produce four palindromes in two hours and twenty minutes, spaced out over half a day, an unqualified success in my opinion.

Origami was also the springboard for a poem containing three more palindromes. With another hour of work, I had a poem in four quatrains, an enigma of mi, and a plurality of palindromes. I'm saving that poem for a future publication, probably the first Palindromedary anthology.

Seed:  spool
Time:  59 minutes

Spool is another ananym. "Spooling it up" is a phrase I've heard often in an engineering context, usually about getting a motor, engine, or other rotating machinery up to speed. Since the common suffix "ing" is so hard to use in reverse, I went with the contraction spool'n. That's where Putin emerged. As the list below shows, I tried many variations and never landed on anything satisfying.

* spool loops
* spool'n it up, Putin. loops
* creep spool'n it up, Putin. Loops peer c
* unlive spool'n it up, Putin. Loops evil nu
* n inward spool'n it up, Putin. Loops drawn in
* ward spool'n it up, Putin. Loops draw
* deef ward spool'n it up, Putin. Loops draw feed
* wolf spool'n it up, Putin. Loops flow
* fore wolf spool'n it up, Putin. Loops flower of
* I'm a giro spool'n it up, Putin. Loops origami
* nori spool'n it up, Putin. Loops iron
* wonk spool'n it up, Putin. Loops know
* Hey, knit spool'n it up, Putin. Loop stinky, eh?

So I tried a different seed, giving up on spool and focusing on Putin instead. The result is appropriately disrespectful.

* n it up, Putin
* Turn it up. Putin rut.
* Turn it up turnip pin. Rut, Putin, rut.

Seed:  water
Time:  30 minutes

I returned to the word water and took the split ret-aw along a different path.

* water ret aw
* water a caret aw
* era water a caret aware
* era water al claret aware

When that path ended, I tried the ret-a-w split instead. The left fragment revealed words ending in ret such as egret, regret, and margret. That last one got me thinking of names and I chose Greta. This is not actually in the Palindromedary, nor is the split reta-w. However, it does illustrate how a list of words can trigger other ideas.

Next I started looking for words to extend the palindrome on either end. The dial-laid ananym pair looked interesting. In the Reversed list, eight entries start with dial and I chose plaid. I found the absurd notion of plaid water appealing. The word dial gave the composition a marketing feel, so it seemed natural to make it into a sales pitch with a clear call to action.

* water reta w
* water Greta W.
* said water greta w dias
* laid water greta w dial
* plaid water greta w dial p
* for plaid water greta w dial prof
* Ban for plaid water greta w dial prof-nab
* Bats for plaid water greta w dial prof-stab
* Mad for plaid water, Greta W? Dial Prof. Dam.