A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over a thousand unique posts in these three years. Images, both visual and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
April 30, 2021
APR 30, poems of Nuclear Medicine: 'SPECTiloquy'
April 29, 2021
APR 29, spineless verse (invertebrates): ghost crabs
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.
April 28, 2021
APR 28, American satire(4): 'twitter-ban'
April 27, 2021
APR 27, culinary verse: "peel 'em 'n' eat 'em shrimp"
April 26, 2021
APR 26, classic palindrome: Panama canal ('a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama')
April 25, 2021
APR 25, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the fart'
April 24, 2021
APR 24, wordplay; American Scramble-towns 15,16
April 23, 2021
APR 23, reptiles: green anoles
April 22, 2021
APR 22, palinku (poetic novelty): canals
In this post, we will introduce a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form 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, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes 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.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
(Or, if your prefer, you can view all this material on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
April 21, 2021
APR 21, pandemic poetry: 'down the street'
April 20, 2021
APR 20, curtained verse: robin red-breast
April 19, 2021
APR 19, etymology : 'dog'
April 18, 2021
APR 18, to clot, or not: overview
April 17, 2021
APR 17, diagnostic imaging: image-guided biopsy
April 16, 2021
APR 16, portraits of couples: gemboks, highly-giroomed dogs
April 15, 2021
APR 15, classic palindrome: 'no lemon, no melon'
April 14, 2021
APR 14, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'a man, a potato'
April 13, 2021
APR 13, waterfowl: oystercatchers
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oystercatcher at Crab Bank |
running along the Mt. Pleasant shoreline |
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at a more leisurely pace |
April 12, 2021
APR 12, funny bones: distal radial fracture
April 11, 2021
APR 11, life in Palindrome Valley: 'Liar Trail' (duplicitous signpost)
April 10, 2021
APR 10, waterfowl: wood ducks
male wood duck (below) swimming with male mallard (above) |
male wood duck |