OCT 31, death and the afterlife: ghostbusting equipment (DTu)

  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!

b) Decorative Touches 

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

OCT 30, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvre

  

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.

OCT 29, (re)duplication: hocus-pocus

 

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. 

OCT 28, palinku (poetic novelty): ethics

(Ed. note:) Verses of this type  -- that we have nicknamed palinkus have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you  proceed  to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators

reprise from October 2020

OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators

You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!

OCT 26, gruesome verse: hidey-hole

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

OCT 25, gruesome verse: horripilation (goose bumps)

 

Authors' Note: Goose bumps or goose pimples are a common transient physiological change produced by stimulation of the skin's small and widely distributed arrector pili, tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle. Their appearance may be provoked by physical conditions (such as a cold environment) or emotional factors, including embarassment, a sexual turn-on, or fear. The latter, accompanied by profound anxiety (the heebie-jeebies), and "hair standing on end" (piloerection or horripilation) is a reaction scaled down from that found in the animal kingdom, e.g. porcupines throwing their quills to put off predators. 

  Heebie-jeebies is gramatically another of those appealing (re) duplications, like helter-skelter and hocus-pocus, and represents a topic appropriate for discussion on Hallowe'en.

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

OCT 24, gruesome verse: scary upshot (DTt)

 

reprise from October 2020

OCT 29, gruesome verse: scary upshot

Hallowe'en is approaching!

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

b) Decorative Touches

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

OCT 23, gruesome verse: untimely demise (DTs)

 

a) reprise from October 2020

OCT 25, gruesome verse: untimely demise

Hallowe'en is sneaking up on us!

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

b) Decorative Touches

                                                             

 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, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia) (DTr)

 

reprise from October 2020

OCT 31, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia)

Happy Hallowe'en!

Authors' Note: The term autophagia or autophagy  may refer to a rare psychiatric disorder, but is more commonly used to describe an intracellular process in the realm of cell biology, as described by the author HERE.

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

b) Decorative Touches 

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

OCT 20 (2023), 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, gruesome verse: dispatch (DTq)

 

a) reprise from October 2021

OCT 19, gruesome verse: dispatch

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

b) Decorative Touches

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

OCT 18, waterfowl stills: on a golden pond (DTp)

 A continuation from a 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.

b) Decorative Touches

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

OCT 17, 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 16, poetic non-sequitur: dishwasher (appliance)

Authors' Note:    

slow uptake of the residential dishwasher
(photos per televised documentary)

inside a current domestic dishwasher

 storage place for dirty dishes
(photo by G.C.)

a brand new dishwasher
(photo by G.C.)

Our collection of "Non-Sequiturs" on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.

 

OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails (DTo)

  

a) reprise from October 2020

OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails

  

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pandemic Poetry' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".

b) Decorative Touches 

OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber river valley (DTn)

a) reprise from October 2020

OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber River Valley (photocollages #1-#3)

 

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

b) Decorative Touches

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