MAR 30, W-I-P

  a) Reprise of material posted on March 30 in previous years ...

2020:  singable satire, That's Amore (parody lyrics) 

2021: singable satire, Yew-Phoric (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Macadamias (parody lyrics)    
2023: singable satire, Reflux Romp (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 30, 2024):  SINGABLE SATIRE

SATIRICAL (and wistful) LYRICS 

MAR 29, Carolina lowcountry: early spring in coastal Carolina

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 29 in previous years ...

2020: insects, bumblebees (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, REPUBLICAN VOTERS (wordplay map) 
2022: binomial phrases, birds and bees (illustrated poem)
2023: homophonous verse, deserving (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 29, 2024): 

MAR 28, American satire: MAGAciousness

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

2020: personal history, anniversary saga (illustrated poem)
2021: savoir-faire, chevre, goat cheese (illustrated poem) 

2022: California excursions, Berkeley,CA (photo-collage)
2023: reconstructive attitudes, popcorn ceilings (illustrated poem)

 b) Today's Offering (Mar 28, 2024): 

MAR 27, special events: visit to Brookgreen Gardens, SC

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 3 (wordplay map)

2021: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 15 (wordplay map) 

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 5 (wordplay map) 

2023: anagram swarm, eastern Canada, postal supplement (wordplay map)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 27, 2024):

The largest sculpture garden in the United States, Brookgreen Gardens  was founded in 1931; it has on display some 1500 outdoor sculptures in an incredible natural setting located at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. 

visit to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina

"The Saint James Triad", bronze sculpture 1997,
Richard McDermott Miller 

"Torse de Femme", limestone sculpture 1989,
David Klass

"Time and the Fates of Man", bronze 1939,
Paul Manship

visitor admiring Spanish moss

a quiet, floral corner

"Pegasus", granite 1954,
Laura Gardin Fraser

"Girl with Squirrel", 
Sylvia Shaw Judson

"Diana of the Chase", bronze 1922,
Anna Hyatt Huntington

Other Brookgreen Gardens statuary has been used to illustrate a number of verses and song-lyrics on this blog-site. Interested readers might want to review. ..

"Egad! No bondage!" verse, Terminal (poetic) exclamation  

"Three Bears in our Hot-Tub", parody-song lyrics 

"Leda and the Swan", verse, Mythed opportunities

"Aurora and Tithonus", verse, Mythed opportunities.

MAR 26, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC

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

2020: Carolina lowcountry, springtime excursion (photo-collage)
2021: mammalian wildlife, woodchucks (illustrated poem) 

2022: bar-fauna, the Lizards' Lair (illustrated poem)
2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials R-Si (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (March 26, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Our publicist (city epistler)/  Posted jobs to consider in Whistler,/
 BC. "Work in pairs/ In restraining our bears;/ Or, alone, as a landscape de-thistler." 

 

Authors' Note: BC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of British Columbia in which the resort-municipality of Whistler, permanent population 14,000, is located. Two million tourists visit Whistler annually for winter alpine sports, and for the summer pastimes of hiking and mountain biking.

Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.

 

You can read more about the hoary marmot in another of our verses HERE.

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 !

 

MAR 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 27

 

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.

MAR 24, poetic non-sequitur: far-flung family

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

2020: hellenophilia, Greek Evzones (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, sex of foxes (poem) 

2022: California excursions, Oakland (photo-collage)
2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials N-Q (wordplay lexicon)

Greek natives, members of the diaspora and general enthusiasts might also enjoy our collection of illustrated verses on the subject of "Hellenophilia".  

b) Today's Offering (Mar 24, 2024):  

poetry lyrics: / Our offspring sprang off; we're among/ The clans who can count
 kids far-flung./  We'll be here at home, yearning/ For our children's returning/
(With their expertise worldly/  There'd be jobs here assuredly), When our family's
 song might get sung.

  

MAR 23, defining opinion: honorifics

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

2020: waterfowl, little blue herons (illustrated poem)
2021: language lovers' poems, Greek (poem)

2022: poetry of healthcare, treatment compliance (poem)
2023: saving the planet, last free lunch (photo)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... colonoscopist), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Mar 23, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ "Honorifics:" says 'Mayor Al T.',/ Comic doctor with bogus M.D.,/

 They are spiffy in spoofs/ And especially in goofs,/ Like Your Lowliness

and Holey Sea." 

Authors' Note:  As pointed out by our comic interpreter and apocryphal city politician Dr. Al, titles and honorifics are often used in comic routines, such as those of the "Three Stooges" and "Monty Python", and in performers' pseudonyms like Dr. Demento and Dr. John.

 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.

MAR 22, organic brain poetry: frontal meningioma

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

2020: new world palindromes, #13,14 (wordplay)
2021: classic palindrome, madam, I'm Adam (illustrated poem) 

2022: organic brain poetry, non-organic vs organic (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, no D, no L -- London (wordplay)

 b) Today's Offering (Mar 22, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ In the frontal lobes, meningioma/ Presses on, slowly grows in its stroma./ 
Bizarre thoughts are expressed;/ vicious acts unredressed --/  Symptoms med- students learn pre-diploma. 

Authors' Note: 

stroma: connective tissue that supports normal body structures and, on occasion, abnormal growths

Meningioma is a not-uncommon slowly growing benign tumor within the cranium. Pressure on adjacent portions of normal brain induce neurological symptoms. When the tumor is located in the frontal cortex, neuropsychiatric manifestations may include bizarre thoughts, frequently paranoid, and unrepressed behavior. Fortunately, the tumors, when suspected, are readily diagnosed on neuro-imaging studies, and surgical therapy is often curative.

Brain tumours account for only a small portion of patients suffering such neuropsychiatric symptoms; however, medical practitioners frequently hope that such a correctable cause may be discovered.

You can view and review all our verses on the topic of 'Organic Brain Poetry' by following this link to the encyclopedic collection on "Edifying Nonsense."

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MAR 21, pill-popping verse: simethicone for abdominal bloating

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

2020: Charleston garden, tractor-seat plant (illustrated poem)

2021: commercial product, Dust, furniture protector (poem) 

2022: reptiles, anole pole-dancer (photo-collage)
2023: defining opinion, post-mortem exam (autopsy) (poem)

Tb) Today's Offering (Mar 21, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Abdominal gas, an incursion?/ Belly bloating not helped
 by inversion?/ Surface tension gos down/ And that gas will leave town,/ When simethicone
 aids its dispersion. 

                                                            

Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. The medicine aids in the  coalescence of the offending small bubbles, that the body can then eliminate with dispersed by flatulence and belching. On the other hand, physical maneuvers such as turning upside-down (inversion) are unlikely to provide symptomatic relief.

   You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.            

                                                        

MAR 20, W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe, etc. (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, CALI-fornia (parody-lyrics) 

2022: singable satire, The Animals' "Jabberwocky" (parody- lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum (parody-lyrics)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... CALIfornia

), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Mar 20, 2024):  

MAR 19, poetic non-sequiturs: talking heads

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

2020: Charleston garden, indica azaleas (illustrated poem)
2021: Greek prefixes, epi- (poem) 

2022: funny bones, foot-floggers' fracture (illustrated poem)
2023: reconstructive attitudes, planned demolition (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 19, 2024): 

Poetry lyrics:/ "Talking heads" are a media resource:/ Seasoned viewers
at breaking news' source,/ As in sports, storms, disasters;/
 But sometimes they're just 'masters'/ Who the show-host's weird views reinforce.

 

MAR 18, poets' corner: blogosphere

  a) Reprise of material posted on March 18 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, gazebos (illustrated poem)

2021: old world palindromes, #17,18 (wordplay maps) 

2022: culinary verse, BBQ (poem)
2023: waterfowl, pescatarian choice (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 18, 2024):  

poetry lyrics:/ Through the blogosphere Bob dumbly lumbered,/ Spewing blogposts
 while web-viewers slumbered./ Now, he's tallied them humbly,/ And recounted most bumbly/
 Daily missives painstakingly numbered./  "Massive output there's now fifteen hunderd./
 That's in sum why I feel e-encumbered." 

 

MAR 17, palinku (poetic novelty): denial #2

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

2020: nuclear cardiology haiku, continuation (poems)
2021: palinku, gender-roles (poetic novelty) 

2022: palinku, lust, indulged, vs. deferred (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, pets (poetic novelty)

b) Today's Offering (Mar 17, 2024): 

 

 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.)

MAR 16, lexicon of word-pairs: legal doublets S to Z

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

2020: new world palindromes, #11,12  (wordplay maps)

2021: new world palindromes #37 (wordplay map) 

2022: hellenophilia, tipping on Santorini (illustrated poem)
2023: handyman's lesson, restoring your old greenhouse (photo-collage)

Tb) Today's Offering (Mar 16, 2024): 

Giorgio's lexicon of binomials (doublets)

For readers with a musical bent, we have a song-cycle of 9 songs displaying the spectrum of these binomial expressions. They have lyrics stuffed with word-pairs, arranged to familiar tunes. You can readily access this singable treasure trove of binomial expressions of various types by clicking on the link for the first song, "WORD PAIRS", HERE. 

You can return to the start of this LEXICON series (alliterative binomials A to D) by clicking HERE.