JUN 30, postal places, USA: Green Bay, WI

Authors' Note: WI is the official abbreviation for the American state of Wisconsin, in which the city of Green Bay, population 110,000, is situated. Founded in 1634 as a French trading post, this settlement on the northern part of Lake Michigan was known in its earlier days as La Baie Verte. Today it is best known as the home of the football team "Green Bay Packers"; activities of the city's priesthood are described in the poem Holy Communion by OEDILFian contributor Chuck Folkers.

 

At one swell foop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

JUN 29, special events: animal displays and animation, High Park, Toronto

Despite the chain-link fences at the viewing interface, the animals at Toronto's old High Park "animal display area" seem to have been given lots of room to move about, and nice shelters. A visit is worthwhile for those aged 2 to 92. 
 

emu

capybara

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JUN 28, poems about parasites: endoparasites

 Authors' Note: The term parasite derives via Latin from an old Greek term meaning "one who dines at another's table". To clarify more fully Lyle's terse explanation in the verse, endoparasites, taking up residence inside their host, get their nutrients by passive absorption or by burrowing in the tissues of their host, which could be you! There are very few cases where they spontaneously leave to go to another restaurant. Fortunately, effective treatments have been developed for many of these types of infestation.

You can review Giorgio's other verses about parasites, both external (ecto-) and internal (endo-) on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

JUN 27, (re)duplication: hodge-podge

 

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole HERE can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other short verses in which we have dealt with specific reduplications, as well as three fairly lengthy patter-songs about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon. 

JUN 26, Carolina lowcountry: birding map of Mt. Pleasant SC

Many of the illustrated verses about these birds as observed and photographed in these locales can be reviewed on our earlier posts. 

JUN 25, photo collage: High Park's peacocks strut their stuff

 

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JUN 24, terminal (poetic) exclamation: EGAD!

 Authors' Note: The author apologizes that the above verse conjures a nightmare of sado-masochistic behavior. It must be admitted, however, that the sensitive dominatrix and the vengeful masochist do not fit the stereotypes (see the relevant poem "Dominatrix" by SheilaB at OEDILF.com.)

Egad, no bondage! and Egad, a bad age! are found in lists of classic palindromic phrases.

"The Whip", bronze sculpture, George Holschuh,
Brookgreen Gardens, SC. 

You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as presented on our encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE.  

You can also review several linked collection of verses dealing with classic palindromes by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes'. 

JUN 23, national and multinational verse: Haiti

 

You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

JUN 22, Toronto ravines: Brickworks (great blue heron)

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUN 22, Toronto ravines: great blue heron

  

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Authors' Note: Both of the above views were obtained by Giorgio Coniglio in Toronto's Don Valley ravine using his i-phone 7 camera.

You can review illustrated verses about waterfowl in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

If you are interested in winding your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.

b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUN 21, waterfowl: tricolored (Louisiana) herons

  

The tricolored heron is known in some parts as the 'Louisiana heron'. See Feb 14's blogpost for some more images of this bird.

You can review our entire collection of illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. 

links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.

JUN 20, singable satire: Dusty Springfield sings "BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU" ( Inferno, Canto 2)

 PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS.

ORIGINAL POEM:  "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.
ORIGINAL SONG: "I Only Want To Be With You", Hawker and Raymonde, as recorded by Dusty Springfield, 1964.  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May, 2015.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Bea Wants to Keep her Eye on You" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.



 BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU

(to the tune of "I Only Want to Be with You")

Intro:
I found that lots of artists pictured Inferno,
Like William Blake, Doré and Michelangelo
Our aim is different- to show you more.
A song to chant each Canto, and there's thirty-four;
To meet this challenge well
We’ll have to sing and play like Hell. 

Dante:
Io cominciai, “Poeta che mi guidi

Primo che a l’alto passo tu mi fidi
Per che del venire m’abbandono?
Io non Enëa, Paulo non sono
Venirvi, chi’l concede?
Me degno a ciò? - nessuno’l crede."

I started in with Virgil, cause he’s our tour-guide,
“My manhood to those scary depths you plan t’ confide;
What if this adventure I now refuse? 
- Aeneas and St. Paul gave this tour bad reviews.
I’m just a wuss, you’re wiser, 
But I’m online with Trip Advisor."

Virgil:
S’i’ho bene la tua parola intesa
La tua anima è da viltade offesa 
Da questa tema che tu ti solve
Dirotti perch’io venni e di te mi dolve
Tanto mio parlar ti promette
Di tre donne benedette.

Interpreting the apprehension that you’ve shared,
Never mind those apps, I’d say you’re bloody scared
To free you from anguish that you’re wimping out
I’ll tell you why I came and what it’s all about..
Three blessed chicks on high
Sent me to be a friendly spy. 

Una bella donna mi chiamò, e m’ebbe ragionato questo
Li occhi lagrimando volse, mi fece del venir più presto.
Cominciò a dirmi…….

The cutest stopped chez moi, and conned me with this latest scoop,
Her tears said rescue him, and save him from his chicken-coop,
Here’s what she told me….…

Beatrice:
O anima cortese mantoana
Di cui la fama durerà lontana
L’amico mio e non de la ventura
È impedito nel cammin, che volt’è per paura
Forse sia già sì smarrito
Per quel ch’i’ho di lui udito.

O, author of the legend of Aeneas
My friend has got himself into a dodgy mess. 
You deserve a Pulitzer, your fame lives f’rever, 
But he’s stuck on a dead-end road, he’s not that clever;
He might be so damned lost
To rescue him’s not worth the cost. 

Temo che sia tardi al soccorso levata
Or movi al suo campare, con la parola ornata
I’son Beatrice che ti faccio andare; 
Amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare;
Quando dinanzi al Segnor sarò
Sovente di te mi loderò.

To help him after I’ve been dawdling seems a reach,
But you might get him rescued, with your flowery speech.
It’s Beatrice who begs you get your ass in gear.
It’s only love that wants to get him out of there.
I’ll praise you to the Lord,
And hope you get a big reward.

Dirotti prontamente da che tu vuo’ saver a dentro
La vostra miseria non m’assale, non temo di venir qua entro
Fiamma non tange.

I’ll tell you right away, about the facts you’d love to learn
Your blues can’t bother me, Hell’s fire doesn’t make me burn.
I’m flame-resistant.

Donna è gentil nel ciel in seggio beato 
Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando
“Combatte la morte, il tuo fedele,”
E venni al loco dov’i’era con Rachele;
“Non odi’l suo pianto, e
Non soccorri quel che t’amò tanto?”

Our blessed Lady up in Heaven’s Chair was seated;
She called on her friend Lucy, and she thus entreated,
“Your faithful friend Dante’s confronting death.”
So Lucy came and told me not to waste one breath.
“Help the guy who loved you so;
Don’t treat him like he’s just some schmo.” 

Al mondo non fur mai persone com’io ratte
A far lo pro e a fuggir loro danno dopo fatte
Cotai parole.

I put my make-up on, ran down here in my jogging-suit,
To beg, “Please find him in that slum, please help him find a better route
To get to Heaven.”

Virgil:
E venni a te così com’ella volse
Il cort’ andar del bel monte ti tolse
D’inanzi a quella fiera ti levai
Dunque che è? perché, perché restai 
Perché virtude stanca, 
Non sei una persona franca.

And so I beat a path up to this dingy wood,
Where any jerk can see the short way UP’s no good. 
To climb to God’s City might make more sense
But there’s a junk-yard watch-dog and a barbed-wire fence
A detour can be found – We’ll have to go the long way ’round.

Dante:
“E tanto buono ardire al cor mi corse – 
Le vere parole che ti porse
Tu hai con disiderio il cor disposto
Tu duca, tu segnore e tu maestro”
E poi che mosso fue
Un sol volere d’ambedue.

Bea’s words to you have geared me up, inflamed my heart
And now I feel I’m much more ready to depart
My leader, my teacher, yes, you’re the man!
We’re both in this together, and you’ve got the plan.
So down the path we shuffled,
And both of us felt more unruffled. 

Intrai, intrai per lo cammino, 
Lo cammino alto e silvestro. 
Intrai, intrai per lo cammino, 
Lo cammino alto e silvestro.

I’d started to enter what was hid
And soon we’d wander off the grid.
I’d started to enter what was hid

And soon we’d wander off the grid.

*  In 2011, Fiddlegirl and Tom Turtle posted on AmIRight.com, the parody-song "Circles That You Find In Hell" using the same original song; their contribution summarized the entire story of The Inferno. 

JUN 19, poetic non-sequitur: ground down (in traffic)

 

JUN 18, personal and family history: Father's Day reminiscence pics xxxxxxxxxxxxx Nate

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all Dads and their families

See also 'a brief personal bio'.

 

his folks 50th anniversary,
Nate with Lil at far right 

JJ's Bar Mitzvah

And, here's a reminiscence with a different Dad-protagonist

JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): meat-eating

  In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the "palinku" is a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its earlier English-language forerunners, 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  (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. Readers will note that we have been publishing verses of this type on the 17th of each month.

 You can view them all our verses of this type 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.)

 links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.

JUN 16, boating: g-nu trip

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUN 16, boats and boating: g-nu (canoe) trip

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reverse Strokes: 'Verses About Canoeing' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUN 15, creative anachronism (Latin authors) ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDrJJ

Authors' Note: When writers distort historic timelines intentionally or inadvertently in concocting their plots, they are said to write anachronistically.

Most of the above-mentioned Roman poets have also been discussed individually elsewhere on the OEDILF site. Many of these figures have had their true Latin names altered considerably to fit our Anglo-Latin construct. Apparently, however, none of these authors adopted the limerick format in their poetry.

Along the same lines, readers are invited to review our small but growing collection of "creative anachronisms" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.

NOSTALGIC RECOLLECTION

(inspired by a birthday). Dr. JJ would be enjoying his 80th today.

at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah

 

surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks

an iconic 50th anniversary celebration

 

For several dozen more photos on this theme, please refer to our daily blogposts from February 5th 2022 to March 6th 2022.