NOV 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #30

 a) Reprise of material posted on November 5 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto oases, High Park (illustrated poem)  
2021: numbers, pentagons, etc  (poem)

2022: defining opinion, hostility (poem) 
2023: submitted palindromes, Ma is as selfless ...   (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 5, 2024):

 

NOV 4, great blue heron, crepuscular light

  a) Review of material posted on November 4 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, mallard ducks (illustrated poem)  
2021: Toronto excursions, portraits at Riverdale Farm (photo-collage)

2022: what's up?, Dawn (Eos)'s endless night (illustrated poem) 

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 4, 2024):

Brickworks ponds, 4 pm

nearby mallard ducks

NOV 3, what's up? contrails

  a) Review of material posted on November 3 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, conspiracy theories (poem)  
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, old Flynn, Martha's Vineyard (illustrated poem)

2022: American satire, Special Master (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, lowcountry landscape (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 3, 2024):

NOV 2, portraits of couples: housefinches

 a) Review of material posted on November 2 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 20 (wordplay)  
2021: STD poetry, GPI (general paresis of the insane) (poem)

2022: binomial phrases, first and last (illustrated poem) 
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, repetitive binomials P to Z (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 2, 2024):

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

NOV 1, back in Toronto (non-sequitur): playing catch by the Lake

 a) Reprise of material posted on November 1 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Highland Creek (photo-collage)
2021: save-the-planet, too hot to hoot (illustrated verse) 
2022: classic palindrome, Racecar. (poem)
2023: objectionable adjectives, horrible (poem)

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raccoon at Highland Creek park

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 1, 2024):    

OCT 30, singable satire: politically corrected lyrics, "MY TENOR UKE"

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 30 in previous years ...

2020: gruesome verse, autophagia, by halves (poem)
2021: singable satire, Zombie Cockroach (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Under My Own Steam (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Polyvinyl for Millenia (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "My Tall Silk Hat", traditional camp-song, based on the popular Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula", 1880.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013.

In the traditional version, of this schoolboy parody, based on the tune of ‘Funiculi, Funicula’, a “big a-fat-a lady” squashes a hat on a subway seat. The current updated lyrics are, I hope, more politically correct and more appealing to adults. The final line, as in the posting of November "Ukuleli, Ukulela" is a Neapolitan Ta-da!, meaning let's go up there. Pronounce the "j"s as "y" to sound like an Italian tenor. 

MY TENOR UKE

(to the tune of "Funiculi, Funicula")

Introduction:
Inspired by trendy p’litical correctness,

I changed a song, an old camp-song,

Reflecting pre-teen Piggy/Twiggy bias,

That got it wrong, so very wrong.
   

Besides, a flavor more Napolitana,

I craved to chance, appeal enhance;

And so I trimmed my 'Lady' down to sexy,

Not anorexy,

And let her dance, a bella dance !

Revised Camp-Song: 

One day, as I was riding up the tramway,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke

I laid it on the seat a-right beside me,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke. 

The tall and shapely Nina sat upon it,

Was that a fluke? My tenor uke !

And launched a liaison volcanic,

(Not too platonic); my tenor uke, my tenor uke ! 

Pavarotti, what do you think of that ?

Master it, six sharps or seven flats;

‘Cause body-type is so much hype;

It’s only brawn or big-a belly –-

So save a seat in cielo

For our sleek friend A. Bocelli.

Outro:

‘Ncoppa jammo ja’, ukulelí, ukulelá.

Pavarotti (left),  Bocelli (right)

OCT 29, seasonal Halloween scenes: illustrations from South Carolina

 

a) Reprise of material posted on October 29 in previous years ...

2020: gruesome verse, scary upshot (illustrated poem)
2021: gruesome verse, 3 verses for Hallowe'en (illustrated poems)
2022: classic palindrome, Mix a maxim. (illustrated poem)
2023: gruesome verse, zombie uprising (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 29, 2024): 

Halloween approaches

"Gal and Gator"
Photo modified from painting
by David Boatwright, 2024.

south of Broad Street, Hallowe'en

"George Washington",
John Trumbull's second portrait, 1792,
Displayed in the City Council chambers,
Charleston, SC,
(photo by G.C., October, 2024)

master of ceremonies,
at a Mt Pleasant residential show

OCT 28, OEDILFian limericks: "democracy"

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 28 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Seton Park (photo-collage)
2021: Carolina lowcountry, wildlife revisited 2 (photo-collage) 
2022: Toronto ravines, floating islands at Brickworks (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Tulip Fields (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 28, 2024):

 

OCT 27, waterfowl: egrets at the spillway

a) Review of material posted on October 27 in previous years ...

2020: diagnostic imaging, technetium generators (illustrated poem)
2021: domestic hazards, fatbergs (poem)
2022: mythed opportunities, Galatea and Pygmalion (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Night View -- Cooper River Bridge  (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 27, 2024)

snowy egret,
black bill,
yellow feet,
smaller, more shy

great egret:
yellow-orange bill
black feet
longer neck, more agressive

 

  

OCT 26, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial

a) Reprise of material posted on October 26 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Wilket Creek (photo-collage)

2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 11 (wordplay maps)
2022: limerick variations, C-rhyme extensions (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, Shem Creek vista (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 26, 2024):

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, cooperative refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

Other problems with cooperative groups are discussed HERE.

You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE.

OCT 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #29

a) Reprise of material posted on October 25 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Nordheimer (photo-collage)
2021: Toronto ravines, Todmorden Mills (photo-collage)
2022: mythed opportunities, Galatea and Pygmalion (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, No 'X' in Nixon. (wordplay)

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puzzling palindrome,
 used in Weird Al Yankovic's song "Bob"

b) Today's Offering (Oct 25, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).