SEP 1, reprehensible modern history: Emperor of Elba

   a) Review of material posted on September 1 in prior years ...

c AUG 7, reprehensible modern history: sheep in Britain

 

SHEEP IN BRITAIN

'Til the 17th C, Britons reap

Productivity based on their sheep.

And then factories and mining

Bring about redefining. 

But the cost to change cloth isn't cheap.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

View the entire collection of poetic assertions on this topic at our more encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense', by clicking HERE.

c AUG 4, bar-fauna: slyly

  SLYLY

Here's a story 'bout "Soda-And-Gin":

As we open, a floozy struts in.

She inquires, "What's on tap?," 

Slyly loosens a strap; 

Then the barkeep committed a sin.

Giorgio Coniglio

If you liked this offering, you might want to refer to our entire collection of verses about human and animal denizens of bars, pubs and other watering-holes. Click HERE.

AUG 1, selected pics: environmental warning (gators!)

 Authors' Note: Avoid jail time -- follow the warning posted on the sign at your condo's drainage pool!

recent front-page newsapaper story

JUL 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 55

 

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.  

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JUL 22, selected pics: ruddy turnstones

ruddy turnstone in flight (background subtracted image)

ruddy turnstone (flying over beach with oyster shells)

Authors' Note:  Ruddy turnstones, sparrow-sized shorebirds, despite their tiny size, are intrepid and accomplished migrators, with a rigorous annual pole-to-pole itinerary. For a few years now, I have seen them in late May on the same small strip of beach near a harborside boardwalk in the Carolina lowcountry. They seem consumed, when there in groups of a dozen or so, not with global travel issues, but rather with mundane considerations such as which individual can claim rights to a small hole dug in the sand.

You can review an illustrated poem about these shorebirds in general HERE, and one about ruddy turnstones in particular HERE.

c JUL 19, American satire: strumpidity -- neologism for our times

STRUMPIDITY

What's needed is a term for an offbeat view of US prosperity and the economic situation at the end of the nineteenth century. A few feel that insight might warrant a Nobel Prize, or perhaps there's one to be awarded for bullying/bribing two warring parties into a peace treaty.

POEM

He's dissolved the world order -- fluidity,

Though adored by enablers -- cupidity.

When he's finally dumpèd

We'll portray it as "STRUMPID" --

An era that honored stupidity.

Giorgio Coniglio

HAIKU (17-syllable)

strumpidity: a

neologism target --

such peculiar times !

Giorgio Coniglio

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JUL 16, artistic leanings (5 senryu verses inspired by current activities)

   

 TODAY'S POEMS (17-syll. senryu *) 

 

 

"Vitruvian Man", drawing, 1490 

 

ideal proportion --

Da Vinci defined man's form

with square and circle.

Giorgio Coniglio

"Yesterday", film, 2019

time-spliced universe --

rock wannabe "reinvents"

 all the Beatles' songs.

Giorgio Coniglio

"Patience", dramatic television series, 2025

Patience, police clerk,

gifted autistic savant

unravels the clues.

Giorgio Coniglio

Ukulele-jam, suboptimal venue

ukulele jams

in unused church basements --

taverns sound better.

 Giorgio Coniglio 

 Bedtime reading

 

learning Japanese?

onerous undertaking -- 

deep admiration.

Giorgio Coniglio

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JUL 13, selected pics: dabbling waterfowl

TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *)

 

the peculiar apparent orange-red colour
 of the 'pond' is a reflection from 
an orangey freighter behind the mute sw

"dabbling" -- upended

ducks, swans, geese and poets probe 

beneath the surface.

Giorgio Coniglio

 

* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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Giorgio and Dr GH 

JUL 10, selected pics: crepe myrtles

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

late June's sultry heat

convinces coy crepe myrtles

to show vivid blooms.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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