JUL 31, American satire (prolongation): felony

 

Author's Note: The above verse could be seen as a companion piece to the author's 'felon'. Check that one out HERE.

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

* JUL 30, Toronto ravines -- Cedarvale

 

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JUL 30, Toronto ravines: Cedarvale Ravine

 

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

JUL 29, Carolina lowcountry: photo-study of the Cooper River (Arthur Ravenel) bridge

This photogenic bridge, a part of US highway 17, links the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, with the suburban town of Mt. Pleasant across the Cooper River. 

Photos were taken with the camera function on Giorgio Coniglio's i-phone 7, later upgraded to an i-phone 13. A few other pictures can be found in a pre-pandemic blogpost HERE. 

t-shirt motif

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* JUL 28, insects -- DEET insect repellent

 

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JUL 28, insects: insect repellents (DEET)

 

Authors' Note: The full name of the chemical is in fact N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

JUL 27, Carolina lowcountry: sundown at Shem Creek

 

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* JUL 26, magical canal palindromes -- far-flung venues

 

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JUL 26, magical canal palindrome --  more far-flung venues

 

You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE; then, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.

JUL 25, palinku (poetic novelty): ponderings

 

   In this post, we 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. 

(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you  proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 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.

* JUL 24, Ontario nostalgia -- Toronto ravines (poem)

 

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JUL 24, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto ravines (poem)

Authors' Note:  Glacial can be pronounced with either 2 or 3 syllables. Here, the word has the meaning of 'produced by, or related to a glacier’. 

  Geologists tell us that during the Wisconsin glaciation, the ice-sheet scooped out soft rock and pushed the piled-up debris, sand and gravel, southward towards Lake Iroquois, the precursor of Lake Ontario. Twelve thousand years ago, with the ending of the ice-age, meltwater from the Laurentide Glacier eroded the channels that became the basis of Toronto's system of ravines.

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

You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about the good old days in Ontario by checking the post 'Ontario Nostalgia' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

JUL 23, Carolina lowcountry: various suburban wildlife

fawn in Mt Pleasant subdivision

realistic guard-alligator (concrete)

well-camouflaged crab on stony path

juvenile black-crown night-heron

young green anole

Anerican green tree frog

 

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* JUL 22, patients and their maladies -- Isaac's myocardial ischemia:

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JUL 22, patients and their maladies: myocardial ischemia

Authors' Note: There is variability in patients' response to the development of blockages in the coronary arteries. Part of this is due to the gradual development of collateral arteries or side branches, which may mitigate the effect of the obstructions to produce chronic symptoms or acute severe damage to heart muscle. The net impact on flow can be assessed through imaging showing blood flow to heart muscle at rest and stress, with nuclear or other studies of myocardial perfusion (‘gated SPECT’).

  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!

JUL 21, non-sequitur: 'hook up with"

 

Revised version: L2-L6: 

"I've hooked up with a anorthern-zipped hippie.

Winter streets there are slippy,

Frozen nosetips are drippy,

But I'm hyped for this trip ...

Lipid padding ... "

Authors' Note:  As shown by the verses on this site, the slang term chippy has a spectrum of slang meanings including 'prostitute/loose woman', 'argumentative' and 'fish-and-chips eatery'. Where I live, the first two uses are in effect. In the US, postal zip-codes roughly identify the location of one's residence.

* JUL 20, Carolina lowcountry -- chainsaw sculpture

 

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JUL 20, Carolina lowcountry: chainsaw sculpture

Recently sighted in our immediate neighborhood ...

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JUL 19, (re)duplication: cootchie-(cootchie)-coo

 

Authors' Note: Cootchie coo, sometimes cootchie cootchie coo, with its many spelling variants, has evolved as a (re)duplication voiced when tickling a baby, or possibly other targets, as described [[47817:here]]. Bloviation, and the blowhard are described in other verses.

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. 

* JUL 18, political palindromes --L

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JUL 18, political palindromes, L

From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.

For FORWARD, proceed to the next set of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES' on July 20.
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set on July 14.

OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST on this topic on May 17.

 

JUL 17, defining opinion: hoe

 Authors' Note: To buy some great veggies, it is worth the effort to find Organic Stan's Veggie-stand, located on Remote Road in Greater Organistan.

 Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

* JUL 16, bottom line of medical humour -- anal fissure

 

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JUL 16, bottom line of medical humor: anal fissure

Authors' Note: 'Aneous', a puerile neologism, has been used here to close the verse, as the proper medical term 'anus' may not function appropriately in this instance. 

You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection 'The BOTTOM LINE of MEDICAL HUMOR' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

JUL 15, painterly poetry: Mary Cassatt (American expat)

Check out our collection of illustrated verses about 'painterly poetry' by clicking HERE. 

 

JUL 14, brief saga (national verse): France

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. 

JUL 13, signs of confusion: fourth collection

This post is the fourth in a series of 5. You can attempt to get all of this straight by reviewing the collections in the previous posts ...

signs of confusion #3
signs of confusion #2
signs of confusion #1

This post has been the fourth in a series of 5. If you have been having fun, you could soldier on and get all of this straight ...

signs of confusion #5