TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
Alaska grizzlies--
photographer's adventures.
safe return, old friend
Giorgio Coniglio
A blogsite (daily.edifyingnonsense.com) that offered 30 entertaining oddities each month from 2020 through 2024, now serving as an archive for 1800 posts accumulated over those five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- were drawn from daily life, including work, family-life and travel. Illustrated poems and wordplay grouped by topic can also be found on our ongoing blog "Edifying Nonsense".
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
Alaska grizzlies--
photographer's adventures.
safe return, old friend
Giorgio Coniglio
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
Remembering Lil:
friendships, family, knowledge --
mother's legacy.
Giorgio Coniglio
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.
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
these days, need service?
old dehumidifier --
purchase a new one.
Giorgio Coniglio
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
North America's
Best part is quietly 'woke'.
Touché, Canada!
Giorgio Coniglio
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.
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.
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
late June's sultry heat
persuades our coy crepe myrtles
to display vivid blooms.
Giorgio Coniglio
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.
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store display, in cellophane bags |
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ready to eat (a somewhat messy finger-food) |
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ramikin with empty shells. Delicious! |
Check out our previous post on this topic with an illustrated poem, song lyrics and more photos. Click HERE.
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
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
songwriting duo
words --Bernie; music --Elton
earworm: "Rocket Man".
Giorgio Coniglio
lion's mane jellyfish
TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. 'haiku')
beautiful, awesome,
Aquarium's jellyfish --
no eyes, brain or heart.
Giorgio Coniglio.
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at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah |
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surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks |
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