AUG 13, 2026: BLOG TASKS

 BLOG TASKS:

GENERAL; Lunch with Art and Marcia on Monday 17th. Sunday, Aug 16.recheck

1) DAILY; (gradually) include captions for poems from Jan to Aug '24 : ~100 more, so that all poems covered 2024 to end-2026. 

2) DAILY: Additions, redups and various others. Check compendia for each type of word-pair. 

3) ED NONSENSE: proceed with changing grouping of posts to six short poems; refill the blanks so that 2025 and 2026 are 'complete' -- 3 various and 1 wordplay post/month. Pay attention to serial postings e.g. poets' corner, birdlore, medical imaging and other highlightable topics.Delete material prior to 2020.

4) SILLY SONGS: Post chord-lyric sheets for all 'brief sagas'. Glean any further songs for files prior to 2020 and then cleart all those files.

'Advertising' the parodies; Distribute info -- other uke clubs etc.

  

AUG 13, reprehensible modern history: The Turco-Italian war

 

poetry lyrics:/ A historic mistake I deplore:/ the Turco-Italian war./ On the web

 it's explorable./ Repercussions are horrible./ Have you heard of this conflict before? 

Authors' Note: The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, 1911–1912, was among the neo-colonial adventures pushed by the European powers (Britain, France, Italy, etc.) who took advantage of the decline of Ottoman Turkey just before the outbreak of the First World War. The territories conquered by the Italians (most of current-day Libya and also the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea) remained under their control through the Second World War, with Mussolini's National Fascist party in power in the Kingdom of Italy for most of this period (1922–1943).

The treaty to end the conflict was named after the resort facility in Lausanne, Switzerland at which it was signed by the belligerents, becoming known as the Treaty of Ouchy (oo-SHEE).

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

c AUG 10: American satire: on reflection

 

  ON  REFLECTION

On reflection, the charges were quaint,

As I acted with tact and restraint:

Prosecutor (distortion), 

"Damage done? A whole portion." 

"Makes you think I'm a vandal. I AIN'T!" 

Giorgio Coniglio

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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