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.
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: '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 21, 2021
APR 22, diagnostic imaging: image-guided biopsy
APR 21, pandemic poetry: 'down the street'
April 20, 2021
APR 20, singable satire: Bob Dylan sings "A FICKLE TWIST of VERSE", part #1
PARODY-LYRICS, based on traditional poetry (limericks)
ORIGINAL POETRY: At Wikipedia (click here), you can find a discussion of limericks dealing with the 'man from Nantucket'.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, June 2016.
1. "There once was a man from Nantucket" (clean version) - 3 verses, unattributed.
2. "There once was a man from Nantucket" (dirty version) - cleaned up by G.C.
3. "A gross, a dozen, and a score" - Leigh Mercer.
5. "There was a brave girl of Connecticut" - Ogden Nash.
6. "There was a young belle of Old Natchez" - Ogden Nash.
Chorus. "People say it makes them sick" - Giorgio Coniglio.
Little Nan and cash-filled bucket.
Plus three times the square root of four;
I fear it had become my shtick,
But now I've lost the knack,
With no good jokes to crack --
A tendency perverse;
Blame it on a fickle twist of verse.
9. "A wonderful bird is the pelican" - Dixon Merritt.
10. "There was a young lady named Bright" - Reginald Buller.
11. "There was an old man of Peru" - Edward Lear.
12. "There was a young fellow of Wheeling" - traditional.
13. "Hickory dickory dock" - traditional.
Chorus. "People say it makes them sick" - Giorgio Coniglio.
April 19, 2021
APR 19, etymology : 'dog'
April 18, 2021
APR 18, to clot, or not: overview
April 17, 2021
APR 17, palinku (poetic novelty): canals
In this post, we will introduce a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by the format used in European versions of 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). Also, the authors concede that the constrained nature of this form of writing doe not really allow for the stereotyped thematic nature of the typical haiku verse.
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.
You can view all our "palinku" verses 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.)
April 16, 2021
APR 16, insects: termites
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
oystercatcher at Crab Bank |
running along the Mt. Pleasant shoreline |
at a more leisurely pace |