FEB 30, (29b), singable satire: W-I-P

FEB 29, photo-collage, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife

a dock-coyote

Pete the Plastic Pelican

lawn unicorn, Mt. Pleasant, SC

a flock of flamingos

FEB 28, pandemic verse: Kermit's prediction

"Some Pandemic Evening"
main commercial street of Mt Pleasant, SC;
8 pm; view towards Ravenel Bridge

FEB 27, wordplay map: American Scramble-towns, 2

Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams (letter scrambles) is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that property to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation.

 

LINKS to other nonsense in this series: 

Forward to the first Canadian map.

Forward to the next American map (3).

Back up to the first American map.

FEB 26, the Charleston garden: garden-tour docent

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Poetry Praising the Charleston Garden' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!

FEB 25, Submitted Palindromes: PARTICIPANT-PALS, group #1

 

Submitted Palindromes: PARTICIPANT-PALS

 

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

  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. The personal profiles for each of these contributors are displayed 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", continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in monthly 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).

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover, OR, just follow the links indicated above. 

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.  

FEB 24, canal verses: the Paris canal -- St-Martin

              

You can discover a bunch of silly illustrated poems about canals by checking out the collection on "Edifying Nonsense" entitled "Panama Palindrome Parodies".

FEB 23, insects: fire ants

Authors' Note: The authors note, with regret, and with continuing scratching of their inflamed ankles, the opening of the 'fire ant season'.      

Even in the winter, they can be activated.
Watch out!

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

Feb 22, bottom line of medical humor: gastro-intestinal pact

Authors' Note: The concept of a formal truce was approached by both parties following the authors' misguided indulgence in the preparation for an endoscopic procedure. 

 You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection 'The BOTTOM LINE of MEDICAL HUMOR' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

FEB 21, American satire: revision of NAFTA

Author's Note: NAFTA is the acronym for the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact formed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico in 1994. The trilateral pact has been the target of invective, and the subject of renegotiations by the Republican administration in 2017 to 2019.

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find dozens more on this topic in 7 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

FEB 20, singable satire: an old folk-song "TRAILERPARKY"

PASTICHE, including  PARODY-LYRICS:  (Pastiche implies the use of several sources,  even several art-forms, as a vehicle for the parody)

ORIGINAL SONG: "Greensleeves", traditional. 

ORIGINAL POEMS: Lyrics are based in part on the poems "Jabberwocky"1871, Lewis Carroll for stanza 1-8, and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"1819, John Keats, for stanza 9. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2001 and 2014.

You can view these lyrics and commentary displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Trailerparky"

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "TRAILERPARKY" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

The protagonist of this pseudo-medieval tale acted as treasurer of a de facto condominium involving 25 cottage properties at the northern edge of Lake Erie, in the Township of Malahide (yes!). Drama developed when the owner of a large adjacent shorefront property, under financial duress, threatened to sell a portion of his land (which included a sizable 'frog-pond') for a trailerpark development.

The traditional tune "Greensleeves"

TRAILERPARKY

( to the tune of "Greensleeves")

'Twas April, and the faulty stoves

Were piled beside the sagging gate;

All fish-flied were the poplar groves,

 With plumbing opened late.

Carroll and Alice Lidell
(fanciful portrait)

"Beware the Trailerpark, my son!

The johns that flush! porch swings that glide!

Beware E. coli counts, and shun

Approvious Malahide !"

At 'condo, sort-of' heads they shook:

Long floating loan-forms he prepares - 

So co-signed he, with the Private Three

At the Bank of M upstairs.

And as the roadway bills he paid

Erie-storms the clay did shift.

The drained Cement-and-Gravel Way

Lay rubbled ' neath the cliff.

  

Back tax! back tax! the Feds they forced

The neighbour's plans deflated twice !

He played his hand, and copped the land

At a freshly garnished price. 

And hast thou bought the Marshy-Flats ?

Come to the Tuck-Shop brunch !", they voice.

"Mosquito breeds, O Noxious Weeds !

But we have no other choice."  

'Twas August, and the slant-cut poles

 Were tied and turgid by the gate:

 All pansied were the Old-road's holes,

 Clay cliffs, west of the site of the story

 And the levy-cheques post-date.

By autumn, at the condo's shore

Did tires the tree-drift beach retread;

All frogsy was OUR pond, and for 

The moment books out-red.

 And this is why few snowbird here,

 Valve-closed or winter-watering,

 'Though sludge is filtered from the lake,

 And no bugs sting.

Lake Erie cliffs, looking west

La Belle Dame
 Sans Merci

FEB 19, waterfowl: Canada geese

To see more photos of these birds, you might want to review our posts "photo-collage: Canada geese" and "folio-entry: a Canada-goose couple".

You can review our collection of illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. 

FEB 18, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): Second Amendment rights

 

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can review our entire poetic outpouring on the important topic of gun control by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.

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FEB 17, nuclear cardiology haiku, continued

 

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FEB 16, poetic non-sequitur: epistaxis

 Here's a verse that exemplifies use of the prefix EPI- ...

Authors' Note: 

peccadillo: loan-word from Spanish meaning 'little sin’

epistaxis (eh-pih-STAK-sihs): bleeding from the nostrils

  

Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.

FEB 15, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#7,#8)

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You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE! 

FEB 14, holidays and celebrations: Valentine's Day

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"The Kiss" by Auguste Rodin, marble, 1882
(photo by G.C. at Rodin Museum, Paris, 2019)

FEB 13, classic palindrome: 'never odd or even'

Authors' Note: 

odd or even: binary classification of whole real numbers, related to basic counting, as in the idiomatic ‘counting sheep’ remedy for insomnia

never odd or even: classic palindrome that seems to revel, perhaps excessively, in the profusion of numbers that cannot be classified by the above simple scheme

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. 

FEB 12, magical palindromes: examples #6 to #10

You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE; then, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.

FEB 11, garden intruders: common (eastern) moles

Keep more to yourself for a while, wash your hands frequently, remember to laugh on occasion, and stay well!

Readers, you are fortunate to have available all our poetic comments on creatures (animal and vegetable), devoted to subverting your gardening plans. To view this collection on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense", click HERE!

FEB 10, a brief saga (trees): sabal palmetto trees

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 10 in previous years ...

2020: poets' corner, depressed poet (photo folio)
2021: insects, computer bugs (illustrated poem) 
2022: inspired by Ogden Nash, a sloth in a slough (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Was it a rat I saw? (wordplay)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... goose family), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Oct 20, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Sabal palmettos, native trees growing along the southeastern and Gulf coastlines of the United States, are also distributed and planted in the temperate portions of the country further west.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three or more stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other general offerings.  

  

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (March 2020), proceed to Walrus and Carpenter (Carolina lowcountry version)'.

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (Jan/Feb 2020), back up to 'Chemainus, British Columbia '.  

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