A blogsite offering 30 entertaining oddities each month since January 2020. We are currently approaching 1800 posts in these five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
January 30, 2021
JAN 30, insects: the (cock)roach
January 29, 2021
JAN 29, old world palindromes #9 and #10
January 28, 2021
JAN 28, etymology: 'horse'
January 27, 2021
JAN 27, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' contest: other submissions, #2 and #3
January 26, 2021
JAN 26, wordplay maps: American Scramble-towns 13,14
January 25, 2021
JAN 25, birdlore: (American) robins
January 24, 2021
JAN 24, American satire: freedom-from-Trump day
January 23, 2021
JAN 23, handbook of micro-nutrients: zinc deficiency and anosmiai
January 22, 2021
JAN 22, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' contest: other submissions, #1
Continuing from previous posts
January 21, 2021
JAN 21, classic palindrome: 'drawn onward'
January 20, 2021
JAN 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "REDUPLICATIONS L to Z"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
And pow-wow, pitter-patter, pooper-scooper, plain Jane, and pell-mell
And poo-poo (scat), pooh-pooh (reject), and pupu (snack); how can you tell?
A mini-lesson found on the Internet |
There's teeter-totter, tootsie-wootsie, teentsie-weentsie, and tee-tee
And tubby-wubby, willy-nilly, wishy-washy, woman’s womb
January 19, 2021
JAN 19, commercial product: web-purchased firearms (Elmer Fudd)
Our range of domestic and commercial products is somewhat limited, but you might want to review our unusual prospective gifts on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
January 18, 2021
JAN 18, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' contest: honorable mention
January 17, 2021
JAN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): partying, part #3
In this post, we will continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay, inspired by Japanese haiku poetry. This new form, in its English-language version, is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded. And, as you likely surmised, the first verse in this collection has already been published here. Parts #1 and #2 of this foursome were exhibited in November and December, 2020. And astute readers might well have noticed that, as a memory-jog, we have used the 17th of the month for the publication of this material.
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes in English are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes') which you can review by clicking HERE.
You can view all our "palinku" verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
January 16, 2021
JAN 16, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' anagram contest: runners-up
January 15, 2021
JAN 15, culinary verse: Cretan salad
January 14, 2021
JAN 14, doctors and their practices: the endocrinologist
January 13, 2021
January 12, 2021
JAN 12, portraits of couples: Introduction (domestic turkeys)
January 11, 2021
JAN 11: review of 'brief sagas' from 2020
A NOTE from the EDITORS:
As readers may have gathered, this blogsite highlights several types of light, wistful and humorous reflections on current life, chief among them being short verses using the limerick format, more or less (see the blogpost "Limerick Variations"). But on occasion, we feel the urge to continue important themes through several stanzas worth of poetic ideas. So in this post, we highlight the previous years' offerings of 'lengthier' poems of at least 15 lines or 3 stanzas. We have been publishing these at the rate of once a month on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), but as they are found mixed with shorter verses of five lines, i.e. standard limericks, or even three lines, (palinku --palindromic haiku), you might have failed to notice and review them in their entirety.
This summary gives you a second chance to explore these lengthier creations that contain as many as 6 stanzas -- hardly lengthy enough to be considered a genuine saga, but we hope reflecting the authors' sagacity.
The compressed mode in which our 'sagas' are displayed may enhance your appreciation of the range of topics covered; if you prefer to enjoy the details in a larger and more readable font, you can quickly access the posts on this blog devoted uniquely to their stanza-by-stanza display (as well as notes, related photos and videos), by entering their title into the search lines provided. And from there, you can, of course, explore further to enjoy the multitude of shorter verses.
For the curious reader's convenience, we have sorted our treasury of 'brief sagas' by the year of publication on this blog. Altogether, you will find more than 40 whimsical poems that cover about 800 lines of verse.
Click below, and enjoy!
2020
2021
2022
2023.