You can review our entire collection of poems on the topic of "Limerick Variations" as compiled on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
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".
September 30, 2022
September 29, 2022
September 28, 2022
SEP 28, (re)duplication: hillbilly
September 27, 2022
SEP 27, palinku (poetic novelty): precepts
In this post, we will continue with 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.
September 26, 2022
SEP 26, organic brain poetry: CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
This is consecutive daily post #1000 on this blog!!!
ROSH HASHANAH: To Jewish friends, L' shanah tovah!
Authors' Note: Although military recruits and physically abused spouses also number among the victims of this disease of insidious onset, (characteristically diagnosed with certainty only at post-mortem examination), it is the scourge of those who earlier in life indulged in contact sports, particularly those with a risk of repetitive minor brain trauma.
September 25, 2022
SEP 25, classic palindrome: 'step on no pets'
September 24, 2022
SEP 24, toxic vignette: antifreeze (ethylene glycol) poisoning
September 23, 2022
SEP 23, news-post: Fore! (Letitia's civil lawsuit)
FORE! (Letitia's Civil Lawsuit)
Strode the fairway to even the score.
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online photo |
Author's Note: The golfing terms fore!, and fairway are explained in other OEDILF verses.
In September 2022, Letitia James, Attorney General of the state of New York initiated a civil lawsuit against the Trump Corporation and its executives (the former 45th American president and three of his children) for longstanding business malfeasance including bank, insurance and tax fraud.
September 22, 2022
SEP 22, braincheck: hippocampus
September 21, 2022
SEP 21, higher connections: views from Queen Elizabeth's funeral
September 20, 2022
SEP 20, hellenophilia: approaching Santorini
Other verses discussing our appreciation of Greece and things Greek can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.
September 19, 2022
SEP 19, death and the afterlife: garbage disposal in Heaven
Authors' Note: You may have gathered that the editors think that Heaven is a bureaucracy-ridden place. So, of course, as a resident there you may have to fill out a lot of documentation to obtain permission to import Earthworms and related paraphernalia.
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context ('death and the afterlife') on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
September 18, 2022
SEP 18, curtained verse: braless
You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
September 17, 2022
SEP 17, cinematic guide: gainless (M*A*S*H theme-song)
Authors' Note: Director Robert Altman had initially requested music for a single scene in the 1970 movie M*A*S*H; in keeping with the plot, this was to be "the stupidest song ever written". Having difficulty in completing the lyricist's task himself, Altman called on his 14-year-old son, who presumably finished the job in a few minutes. The music for "Suicide is Painless" went on to become highly popular as the principal theme for the movie and the TV series; the lyrics are not widely known, but earned the junior Altman large sums in royalties.
September 16, 2022
SEP 16, poets' corner: poetic inventiveness
(Ed. note:) Palinku verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all, and learn more about their derivation, if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
Also, you can find lots of other verses on this daily blog under the rubric "Poets' Corner". Most of them are in limerick format, and have been subjected to the editing process at OEDILF, the Online English Dictionary in Limerick Form. To access the others, type the phrase Poets Corner into the searchline on this blogpost (at the top of the righthand navigation column).
September 15, 2022
SEP 15, Italian loanwords: vendetta
You can review our entire poetic outpouring about Italian loanwords by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE. If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)
September 14, 2022
SEP 14, Ontario nostalgia: native cactus
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hidden cactus corner: Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto |
Authors' Note: Species of plants belonging to the cactus family are native only to America. Although they are generally heat-loving, a few species of the genus Opuntia are sufficiently cold-tolerant to live in parts of Canada. One of these, the eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, thrives in the US in dry areas such as along beaches on the Atlantic coastline, and some inland areas. At the northern limit of its range, in areas along the Great Lakes in Ontario (located centrally in Canada), this species has been susceptible to territory loss by severe winter storms and is now considered locally endangered. Three other species of low-growing cacti are still flourishing in the prairie provinces of western Canada.
There's a different story in other parts of the globe, where these and related species were relocated by human activities in the sixteenth century. Owing to their edible summer fruit, prickly pears are tolerated as invasives in parts of South Africa, southern Europe, Polynesia, South America, etc. In Australia, however, they spread quickly and vigorously, taking over a huge chunk of grazing and horticultural terrain in Queensland, and are now prohibited.
Resources on the web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_humifusa
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cactus
September 13, 2022
SEP 13, pluralia tantum: 'condolences'
Authors' Note: The above verse provides several further examples of the grammatical phenomenon pluralia tantum. An idiom associated with providing condolences for the family and friends of a single deceased person is to 'pay one's final respects'.
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)
September 12, 2022
SEP 12, numbers: a dozen (12)
September 11, 2022
SEP 11, planet-saving verse: the fishmonger
You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
September 10, 2022
SEP 10, waterfowl: feral ducks
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
September 9, 2022
SEP 9, ecto-parasites: cat fleas
September 8, 2022
SEP 8, news-post: Elizabeth the Second, OEDILFian tribute
September 7, 2022
SEP 7, patients and their maladies: male infertility
You can view these verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Nurse-Verse: Patients and their Maladies' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!