OCT 30, singable satire: "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA"

SATIRICAL LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Carolina in the Morning" written 1922, best-known version is performed by Al Jolson.

PARODY COMPOSED:  Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014. The initial accompanying photos are borrowed from various online websites; the final pair are attributable to Giorgio and his trusty cellphone camera.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

POLYVINYL for MILLENIA


(to the tune of "Carolina in the Morning")



What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Plastic junk accumulates and traps or blocks the GI tracts of fauna.
Landfills are offenders; poly-bags wind blown,
Threatening fragile creatures in the intertidal zone.

Vortices of sea-dumped trash, like "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" keep growing;.
Astronauts can even spot them from their place in space; up there, they're showing.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish, 
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish - 
Every Jane and Michael, it's not hard, so please recycle all your pla-a-astic. 

What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Particles accumulate, then hydrocarbons degradate in fauna.
Population's highest, polluting near the shore.
Altering constitution of the worldwide ocean floor.

Jellyfish get jealous of those gels the plankton relish for their vinyl,
Seasoning our seafood and inciting crude reactions that are final.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish, 
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish,

Every Jane and Michael, it's not hard, so please recycle all your pla-a-astic. 

real-life brown pelican
 perched on a post 

Pete, the  plastic pelican 

OCT 29, gruesome verse: ghostbusting equipment

Happy Hallowe'en!  

  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!

OCT 28, gruesome verse: hidey-hole

 Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense"  by clicking HERE.

OCT 27, decorative touches: night view of Ravenel Bridge (fabric art)

 Decorative Touches: "Sunset in Charleston"

Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023. 

                                                         

                                             fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

For a comparison of modalities you might want to see the post of July 29,  "Photo-Study of the Cooper River Bridge".

OCT 26, decorative touches: "Ravenel Bridge" (fabric art)

Decorative Touches: Ravenel Bridge

Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023. 

                                                                                fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

OCT 25, Submitted Palindromes: F, targeted at "NO 'X' IN 'NIXON' "

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s). 

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

 

OCT 24, decorative touches: "Cypress Swamp 2" (fabric art)

 

"Cypress Swamp 2"

 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

OCT 23, decorative touches: "Quilt, untitled" (fabric art)

 

 Decorative Touches: "Untitled Quilt"

                                                              fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

OCT 22, postal places, Canada: Deseronto, ON

Authors' Note: ON is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Ontario, in which the village of Deseronto, population 1800, is situated 5 km (3 miles) south of Highway 401, a limited-access four-lane main route that leads from Toronto to Montreal.

Captain John Deseronto, a native Mohawk, fought in the British Military Forces during the American Revolutionary War. Until 1848, "Deseronto", a site along the northern shore of Lake Ontario, served as an indigenous reserve.

Incidentally, although many characters in American western movies said "Let's vamoose!", the Lone Ranger was better known for voicing, "Hi Yo Silver, away."

 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 !
 

OCT 21, decorative touches: "Reweavings" (fabric art)

 

a) Decorative Touches: "Reweavings 1" 

 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

b) Decorative Touches: "Reweavings 2"

fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

c) Decorative Touches: "Reweavings 3" 

fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

                                                                          fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

OCT 20, singable satire: Leonard Cohen sings "DANTE VIEWS the PAIN OF LUST" (Canto 5b)

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: "Dance Me To The End Of Love",  Leonard Cohen, 1984.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Dante Meets the Pain of Lust" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

                                                                                  

Inferno Canto#5b: 

DANTE MEETS THE PAIN OF LUST

(to the tune of "Dance Me To The End Of Love")

Intro: (reprise of Canto#5a)

Dante to the Second Circle warily descends

Dante with companion Virgil, Minos’ censure fends

A swirling flock of moaning souls who mortally
had letched

Choir-like, they are heard to kvetch

Choir-like, they are heard to kvetch.

 

Canto 5 continued:

Intesi che son dannati a così fatto tormento

Peccator che la ragion sommettono al talento

E come li stornei ne portano l’ali

Così quel fiato li spiriti mali

Quel fiato li spiriti mali.

Dante views the fate of those whose burning passion sinned
Buffeted like winter starlings by the smiting wind

Hurricanes that never rest tempestuously thrust,

And lash them with the winds of lust;

Damn them to the winds of lust.

Dante bears the witness, but his eyes he barely trusts,
Classical and literary lovers felled by Lust
Cleopatra, Semiramis, figures he knew well,
Tossing on the winds of Hell
Tossing on the winds of Hell.

Dante feels great pity for a thousand tortured shades

Torn by love from mortal life ‘though none of them had AIDS

Paolo and Francesca stop for coffee and a bite
Time-out from their endless flight

Time-out to describe their plight.

Paolo and Francesca were a pair to break your heart

Paolo and Francesca topped Ravenna’s scandal charts.

(Shakespeare’s sad Verona couple - not invented yet

So no-one knew of Juliet,

No-one heard of Juliet)    
 

Bro-in-law in castle garden, bad case of the hots;

Romance tales they read of Guinevere and Lancelot.

Bro Giovanni pulled his knife when they betrayed his trust
Murdered as revenge for lust

Murdered as revenge for lust.

Essa disse, “Esser basciato da cotanto amante,

Basciò e quel giorno non vi leggemmo avante

Dante, “Io venni men così com’io morisse

E caddi come corpo morto cade.

Caddi com'un morto cade.”

Dante learned how Frankie’d given into earthly bliss

When Paolo got his cue from reading of Sir Lancelot’s kiss 

Dante poet, overwhelmed by anguish, felt so crushed

He fainted with this tale of lust.

Dante felt the pain of lust.

Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina Cai... 
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Cai.. 

Gianciotto ( or Giovanni the lame) - disparaging nickname for Giovanni Malatesta

Caina - a pit in the lowest ring of Hell reserved for those who have committed treachery and violence against family members (named after Cain, Abraham's son)

Italy in the late Medieval Period

 

OCT 19, decorative touches: abstract quilts (fabric art)

 a) Decorative Touch: "Stairway Quilt"

 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

b) Decorative Touches: "Remnants of Gaudi" 

 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

OCT 18, photo-collage: on a golden pond

a) A continuation from the post of September 19, capturing views from a gorgeous day at summer's end:

ducks on duckweed

You can find a poetic tribute to duckweed on this blogsite by clicking HERE.

OCT 17, palinku (poetic novelty): ethics

  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 readily 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.)

OCT 16, terminal (poetic) exclamation: YIKES!

Authors' Note: Yikes and its variant yoicks, are interjections expressing shock or alarm.

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

OCT 15, decorative touches, two Carolina lowcountry scenes (fabric art)

Decorative Touches:  

fabric art contributed by R.C.H., with thanks from the blog-editors