FEB 29, photo-collage: views from the Carolina lowcountry

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 29/28b in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, unusual wildlife (photo-collage)
2021: gun control verse, the hitman (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, moonshine whiskey (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, criminal lying (poem)

Giorgio (on the left) with
Pete the Plastic Pelican
in the Carolina lowcountry

b) Today's Offering (Feb 29, 2024): 

boardwalk at Shem Creek, Mt. Pleasant SC

Carolina anole, napping in our backyard

longleaf pine, re-establishing itself
on an old rice plantation

Carnival cruise

political perturbation

allee of moss-covered live oak trees,
 lining an old road at a rice plantation

pelican, skimming surface of the creek

a small boat tries to imitate the pelican

                                                  

 

FEB 29, submitted palindromes, RANDOM PILES 50

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.  

FEB 28, defining opinion: fester

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 28 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic verse, Kermit's prediction (illustrated poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #36 (wordplay map)
2022: Canadiana, snow-biota (illustrated poem)
2023: urban concerns, elevator reluctance (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 28, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Today's expert speaker is Lester:/ "I'll delve into the meaning of fester./

 (I apologize if/ I give off a faint whiff.)"/ Lester fancies himself as a jester.

FEB 27, what's up? honk (geese in formation)

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 27 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 2 (wordplay map)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns, 14 (wordplay map)
2022:  anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 4 (wordplay map) 

2023: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 16 (wordplay map)

 

b) Today's Offering (Feb 27, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ The geese overhead sound forlorn/ In their Vs, 'bove the trees,
 early morn./ When, near dusk, flock returns,/ Bob observing, discerns,/
 "Their call sound like the honk of a horn."

Author's Note: The author is thinking here of wild geese, like the Canada goose, taking a more favorable view than he did in an earlier verse that you can find HERE. The V-formation is characteristic of, but not unique to, flights of their flocks.

Readers can review our growing collection of illustrated verses assembled under the rubric "What's Up?" by clicking HERE.

FEB 26, 2024:chemical states: Canadian provinces and territories

a) Reprise of material posted on February 26 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, garden-tour docent (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, EX-PRESIDENTIAL (illustrated poem) 
2022: Palindrome Valley, Nauruan, second language (poem)
2023: handyman's lesson, restoring old greenhouse (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 26, 2024): 

 You can view the collection of posts on this topic with this link to our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- click HERE.

 Re PAGES: 

You, members of the audience of Daily Illustrated Nonsense, (D.I.N.), often have questions about the authors of this blog, and the purpose, history and organization of our online e-manations. To help answer these puzzlements, we have scrawled some material on the undated PAGES section of this blog. Please review these 'documents', although some remain under development. Although expansion of these explanations is contemplated, we admit to taking our time to write down what seems natural to us, but more outreach with this type of communication is planned.

So far, you can take a look at these important documents :

1) Our Blog (D.I.N.): Authors and Purpose (under construction)

2) Content of the blog, and its Historical Development

3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

FEB 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 26

 

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

  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. The personal profiles for each of these contributors are displayed 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", continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in monthly 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 this delightful entertainment right here 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, OR, just follow the links indicated above. 

Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.

FEB 29, W-I-P

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 29b/28c in previous years ...

2020: mammalian wildlife, Geebo's angwantibo (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Palace of Malice (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Ukuleli, Ukulela (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Let's Do It (guest parody lyrics)

on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Feb 25, 2024): 

FEB 24, American satire: gov by dopes (Nikki Haley rally)

 a) Reprise of material posted on February 24 in previous years ...

2020: canal verses, St-Martin, the Paris canal (illustrated poem)
2021: Greek prefixes, endo- (poem) 
2022: defining opinion, academically (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, T. Eliot's Toilet (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 24, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ The world fears four more Red years, recalling,/ That vengeful orange
 leader (appalling)./ Right-wing allies, not picky/ Might rally for Nikki-- / She enhanced
 his first term, and that's galling./ Still, one hopes, gov. by dopes, she's forestalling! 

 We hope that you enjoyed this verse, concocted just in time for the South Carolina primary election.  You can find dozens more on this topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

c) current political turmoil, US version 

polling station for SC Republican primary,
all quiet (2024) 

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FEB 23, birdlore: eastern bluebird (frontal close-up)

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 23 in previous years ...

2020: insects, fire ants (illustrated poem)
2021: literature survey course, pass/fail (poem) 
2022: reprehensible history, cantankerous leaders (poem)
2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials E-K (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 23, 2024): 

 current birdie-pic

bluebird, another frontal close-up

FEB 22, Carolina lowcountry: a) elegant oyster-roast, b) garden-tour docents

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 22 in previous years ...

2020: bottom-line humor, gastrointestinal pact (poem)
2021: amphibians, green tree frogs (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, schadenfreude/deserved (poem)
2023: signs of confusion, third collection (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 22, 2024): 

 oyster-roast nostalgia 

     

Elegant table service at an outdoor charity event:
 Steamed oyster clusters

 garden tour docents 

FEB 21, birdlore, Blue Jays' mascot

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 21 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, revision of NAFTA (poem)
2021: pandemic poetry, 2 contagiously funny verses (poems) 
2022: trace minerals and vitamins, vit A deficiency (poem)
2023: dental feelings, cavities (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 21, 2024): 

 birdie-pic (from last summer) 

blue jay

FEB 20, W-I-P

a) Reprise of material posted on February 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Trailerparky (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Mary Poppins "Formulaic ..." (parody lyrics) 

2022: singable satire, Mergerwocky (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Dark Schemes (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 20, 2024):  

FEB 19, photo-collage, waterfowl: Canada geese

a) Reprise of material posted on February 19 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, Canada geese (illustrated poem)
2021: etymology (word-source), mentor (poem)
2022: funny bones, 5th metatarsal fracture (poem)

2023: waterfowl, feral ducks (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 19, 2024): 

occasional aggressive stance

at Lake Ontario

To see even more of these birds, you might want to review our posts "illustrated verse: Canada geese",  and "folio entry: a Canada-goose couple". 

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

FEB 18, birdfeeder action-photos: red-bellied woodpecker

 

a) Review of material posted on February 18 in previous years ...

2020: gun-control verse, Second Amendment rights (illustrated poem)
2021: neologism, personal, electile dysfunction (illustrated poem) 
2022: defining opinion, boring (poem)
2023: birdlore, Eastern towhees (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 18, 2024): 

red-bellied woodpecker

FEB 17, palinku (poetic novelty): precepts

a) Reprise of material posted on February 17 in previous years ...

2020: Nuclear Cardiology haiku, continuation (collection of short poems)
2021: palinku, partying #4 (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, sports (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, drinks (poetic novelty)

b) Today's Offering (Feb 17, 2024): 

In this post, we  continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry and its English language versions, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike earlier forms, the "palinku" 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. 

ADDENDUM: Anyone for tenets?

 You can readily view 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.)

FEB 16, postal places, Canada: La Tuque, QC

a) Reprise of material posted on February 16 in previous years ...

2020: non-sequitur, epistaxis (poem)
2021: classic palindromes, O Stone, be not so. (illustrated poem) 
2022: inspired by DrJJ, that old Yitz (illustrated poem)
2023: mythed opportunities, Leda and the swan (illustrated poem)

 b) Today's Offering (Feb 16, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ At the bar's open mike, strumming uke,/ Scoffed the cynic, "Large city?
  La Tuque,/ QC; but its density/ Reveals a propensity/ For nonsensical claims; that's a fluke."

Authors' Note:  QC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Quebec, in which La Tuque, population 11,000, is situated beside the St-Maurice River, 170 km (105 miles) north of the Saint Lawrence. The town's iconically shaped low mountain, resulting in its name (Fr. tuque is a soft wool hat), was partly destroyed in construction of a hydro-electric installation 80 years ago.

In each of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, administrative rearrangements resulted in a handful of "cities" and "regional municipalities" with extensive areas that had low population densities, contrary to the usual expectation for urban centres. In this regard La Tuque heads up the pack, its central town surrounded by a vast forested area of 28,000 km² giving it a population density of 0.4/km², compared to Montreal, QC, and Quebec City, QC, with densities of 2,700 and 1,600/km² respectively.

 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 !

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