JUL 8, photographic adventures

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')   

Alaska grizzlies--

photographer's adventures.

safe return, old friend

Giorgio Coniglio

JUL 7, Remembrance

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku') 

Remembering Lil:

friendships, family, knowledge --

mother's legacy.

Giorgio Coniglio

JUL 3, world of music: "I guess that's why. ... "

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')

why call it "The Blues" ?

Elton plays and we all dance;

only Bernie knows.

Giorgio Coniglio

Ed. Note: Interested readers might also want to check out the verse posted on June 19.

JUL 2, technical update: portable dehumidifiers

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku') 

these days, need service? 

old dehumidifier --

purchase a new one.

Giorgio Coniglio

JUL 1, Canadiana: Happy Birthday, Canada!

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku') 

North America's

Best part is quietly 'woke'.

Touché, Canada!

Giorgio Coniglio

JUN 30, still more avian talking heads

 

 This tongue-in-cheek collection is a followup to earlier blog-posts "Talking Heads, avian", and "Talking Heads, mammalian". 

prior participants (December 30, 2024):  bald eagle, black-crowned night heron, black skimmer, black swan, brown pelican, Canada goose, chicken, domestic duck (pekin), domestic turkey, emu, flamingo, gallinule, grackle, great awk, great blue heron, great egret, greylag (domestic) goose, Harris hawk, housefinch. 

prior participants (May 30):  laughing gull, little blue heron, loon, magpie, mallard duck, marabou stork, military macaw, mute swan, owl, oystercatcher, peacock, pied imperial pigeon, red-bellied woodpecker, red-winged blackbird, ring-billed gull, robin, sanderling, scarlet macaw, snowy egret. 

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: toucan, tricolored heron, trumpeter swan, tufted titmouse, victoria crowned pigeon, western gull, white ibis, wood duck, wood stork, yellow-crowned night heron + neck-stretching trumpeter

toucan

tricolored heron

trumpeter swan

tufted titmouse

Victoria crowned pigeon

western gull

white ibis

wood duck

wood stork

yellow-crowned night heron

(The photos of the toucan and wood stork were kindly provided by Dr. B.C. and Dr W.W. respectively. Photos were otherwise obtained by Giorgio Coniglio, using his i-phone camera, at various locations.)

trumpeter stretching 

JUN 27, Canadiana: Alberta dinosaurs

 

 ALBERTA DINOSAURS

Oilpatch dinosaur Tories may dump

All good sense -- they applaud Donald Trump.

In Alberta's Drumheller

Poobahs worship that feller

(alpha-male of the species T. rump).

Giorgio Coniglio. 

The above poem was inspired by recent  newspaper articles reporting that there are places in Canada where people approve of the comments and attitudes of the current US president, despite widespread national disapproval.

Drumheller, a town of some 8,000 inhabitants located 110 km northeast of Calgary, has a number of distinctive features. Once the largest coal-producing site in western Canada, it can boast, due to aggressive amalgamation with neighboring communities, its status as the largest "city" geographically in the oil-rich prairie province of Alberta. Located two hours drive from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Drumheller's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology has the largest collection of fossils in Canada, and the town vaunts this tourist attraction with a fiberglass statue of a Tyrannosaurus rex measuring over 80 feet in height.

JUN 26, Charleston gardens: crepe myrtle, haiku

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')

late June's sultry heat

persuades our coy crepe myrtles

to display vivid blooms.

Giorgio Coniglio

JUN 25, terminal (poetic) exclamation: EGAD!

 Authors' Note: The author apologizes that the above verse conjures a nightmare of sado-masochistic behavior. It must be admitted, however, that the sensitive dominatrix and the vengeful masochist do not fit the stereotypes.

Egad, no bondage! and Egad, a bad age! are found in lists of classic palindromic phrases.

"The Whip", bronze sculpture,
George Holschuh,
Brookgreen Gardens, SC. 

You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as presented on our encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE.  

You can also review several linked collection of verses dealing with classic palindromes by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes'. 

JUN 24, urban concerns: aged street tree

Authors' Note: This verse drew inspiration from the poem "Cuore di Legno" (Heart of Wood) by Italian poet Primo Levi. In the poem, the narrator, an aged horse chestnut growing on a busy urban street, complains of, among other insults, being peed on by neighborhood dogs. 

Other related issues can be found in verse form on our blogpost "Urban Concerns".

JUN 23, national and multinational verse: Haiti

 

You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

JUN 22, homophonous verse: bypassed glitches

 

Authors' Note: Of course, the concept that bribes would be of benefit to authors submitting to OEDILF is patently nonsensical. There are a certain number of identity rhymes that appear in the database of edited verses there. The prosaic explanation, however, is that these bypassed initial glitches, being rather subtle in comparison with other flaws, are often under-observed and overlooked.

You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables --  in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE. 

JUN 21, photo-collage: Carolina lowcountry treat -- boiled peanuts

 

store display, in cellophane bags

ready to eat (a somewhat messy finger-food)

ramikin with empty shells. Delicious!

Check out our previous post on this topic with an illustrated poem, song lyrics and more photos. Click HERE.

JUN 20, Japan reminiscence: yukata (limerick)

 YUKATA

Wear the Japanese loungeware -- yukata

Worn with obi and geta, you oughtta.

Where? onsen or buffet, 

Family stroll, summer's day,

Suiting you, or your son and your daughter.

Giorgio Coniglio

JUN 19, world of music: "Rocket Man"

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')

songwriting duo

words --Bernie; music --Elton

earworm: "Rocket Man".

Giorgio Coniglio

JUN 18, invertebrates: dance of the jellyfish

moon jellyfish

lion's mane jellyfish

TODAY'S POEM  (17-syll. 'haiku')

beautiful, awesome,

Aquarium's jellyfish --

no eyes, brain or heart.

Giorgio Coniglio.

JUN 17, ten year anniversary: Mother Emanuel Church massacre

 

Reprise of a verse posted in 2022:

JUN 16, personal and family history: Father's Day reminiscence pics xxxxxxxxxxxxx Nate

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all Dads and their families

See also 'a brief personal bio'.

 

his folks 50th anniversary,
Nate with Lil at far right 

JJ's Bar Mitzvah

And, here's a reminiscence with a different Dad-protagonist

JUN 15, creative anachronism (Latin authors) ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDrJJ

Authors' Note: When writers distort historic timelines intentionally or inadvertently in concocting their plots, they are said to write anachronistically.

Most of the above-mentioned Roman poets have also been discussed individually elsewhere on the OEDILF site. Many of these figures have had their true Latin names altered considerably to fit our Anglo-Latin construct. Apparently, however, none of these authors adopted the limerick format in their poetry.

Along the same lines, readers are invited to review our small but growing collection of "creative anachronisms" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.

NOSTALGIC RECOLLECTION

(inspired by a birthday). Dr. JJ would be enjoying his 82nd today.

at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah

 

surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks

an iconic 50th anniversary celebration

 

For several dozen more photos on this theme, please refer to our daily blogposts from February 5th, 2022, to March 6th, 2022.