January 21, 2021

JAN 21, classic palindrome: 'drawn onward'


a) Reprise of material posted on January 21 in previous years ...

2020: American satire,First Term on theRange (wordplay/parody lyrics)
2021: classic palindromes, Drawn onward. (illustrated poem)
2022: limerick variations, singable limericks (illustrated poem) 
2023: creative anachronism, dawning of history (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jan 21, 2024):




Authors' Note: 

patsy: slang for 'sucker' or 'gullible person'

Dem: American short-form for 'Democrats', referring either generally to adherents of the political party, or to elected officials

Don: short-form for 'Donald'; a respectful term of address for a Spanish or Italian nobleman; a leader of the Italian Cosa Nostra

D.C.: District of Columbia, often used in casual references to the American capital city, Washington

   This poem was written just after the publically broadcast hearings of the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in the first impeachment of Donald Trump in November, 2019.

   Are we not drawn onward to new era? also represents a classic palindrome.




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'. 



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