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little blue heron |
Atlantic ghost crab |
brown pelican, artistic rendering |
cormorants and dolphin |
roseate spoonbills, Deweese Island |
sanderling |
willet |
yellow-crowned night heron |
busy sanderlings, Sullivan's island |
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over sixteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic, 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.
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little blue heron |
Atlantic ghost crab |
brown pelican, artistic rendering |
cormorants and dolphin |
roseate spoonbills, Deweese Island |
sanderling |
willet |
yellow-crowned night heron |
busy sanderlings, Sullivan's island |
Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams, i.e. 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.
Hallowe'en is creeping up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
PARODY-LYRICS
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. 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.
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.)
Authors' Note: Ablaut (AHB-lowt) is a linguistic term, derived from German, for a vowel transition resulting in a change in word meaning. Such changes are the basis of the simple past tense and the past participle in a substantial proportion of irregular English verbs, as exemplified in the second and third stanzas.
To review the blogpost displaying our entire collection of verses dealing with "Exemplary Exemplification", click HERE.