MAY 30, singable satire: Harry Belafonte sings "ISLAND IN THE SUN" (Iceland)

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

2020: singable satire, W-I-P (parody lyrics) 
2021: reptiles, painted turtles (illustrated poem)
2022: singable satire, Wreck of the Danish Royalty (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Ewe-Yew-You (parody-lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (May 30, 2024): 

 PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG : "Island In the Sun", Harry Belafonte 1957. The original song has been covered in versions in German and Swedish, but not as far as I can tell in Icelandic. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2015.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "Iceland in the Sun" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

This song resulted from a family trip to Iceland in June 2015. Our few days there were packed with wonderful sightseeing excursions. The weather was as good as it gets in Iceland (only minimal rain, not interfering with our travels). The highlight of the trip was the recently opened IceCave excursion; after a palpitating ride by giant truck over a huge ice-field, we walked into a system of tunnels in the glacier itself, led by an excellent informative guide.
The Icelandic language, a venerable tongue which has apparently changed little since the first settlers came to the island in the 9th century, seems challenging to learn. Fortunately for us, the friendly locals we encountered, at least in Reykjavik, all spoke English quite well.

Ísland = Iceland , pronounced eess-lant. 
góðan daginn = good morning, hello, pronounced goh-than die-in.
Eyjafjallajökull (j's pronounced as y)  = Island-Mountain-icecap, the subglacial volcano whose brief eruption caused the Icelandic ash problem in 2010; the volcano has now been considered dormant for 5 years.
    

ÍSLAND (Iceland) IN THE SUN

(to the tune of Belafonte's "Island in The Sun")

This year we flew with Icelandair

Europe-bound and stopped halfway there.

We left TO, our kids from DC,

A meet-up trip for our family. 

Oh, Ísland, land of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes

IceCave, Langjökull

And Blue Lagoon.

A neat idea, break our trip

Meet at hotel-suite in Reykjavik.

Restos coped with vegg-necessity

And one kid GF lactose-free.

Didn’t know, but they’re eco-smart

Geo-thermal at system’s heart

Hot water piped everywhere you see

Heat all home and greenhouse for free.

Oh, Ísland, northern light

Eyjafjallajökull
eruption March 2010

Four full days touring awesome sights

Hotel choose, or your sleep you’ll lose

Weekends downtown bars

Never close at night.

Recent attraction, not to skip

Monster truck, glacier Ice-Cave trip

Bundle up, walk though colored ice

View crevasse, bottom-up is nice. 

Oh, Ísland, isle of fun

Nights stay bright for the month of June

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Glacier overlying
 dormant volcano, 2013

Close with steamy bathing

At Blue Lagoon.

I'll greet old friends - “góðan daginn”, soon

When we go back some year in June

Next time stay longer, get my fill - 

Climb, and say, “Eyjafjallajökull”.

Oh, Ísland, isle of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

More full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes

And Blue Lagoon.

tourist-party atop the glacier

 'night'-time hike down volcano
 to a steamy bathing spot

MAY 29, pill-poppin' poem: Fentanyl addiction

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

2020: etymology, haven / havoc (poem)
2021: oncologic verse, cancerophobia (poem) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, commuting by rail (illustrated poem)
2023: excursions, polka dots (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 29, 2024): 

 Authors' Note: Everything you might want to know about fentanyl can be found in a verse at OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) by fellow contributor-editor DavidGries. Click HERE.

MAY 28, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial

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

2020: exotic destination, Cappadocia (illustrated poem)
2021: funny bones, avascular necrosis (poem) 
2022: excursion, Brickworks at dusk (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pictures at renovation (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 28, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, cooperative refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

Other problems with cooperative groups are discussed HERE.

You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE.

MAY 27, photo-story: injured bumblebee

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

2020: classic palindrome, Mr. Owl (poem)
2021: amphibians, Dominican crapaud (poem) 
2022: mythed opportunities, Dante's Divine Comedy (illustrated poem)
2023: excursion, around Washington, DC (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 27, 2024): 

incidental current photo

A sad but determined bumblebee, having lost its left wings, likely in an altercation with some physical object (building?), makes its way on foot across a stone patio.  

An airborne colleague

MAY 26, postal places, USA: Fargo, ND

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

2020: Ontario nostalgia, Trent-Severn canal (illustrated poem)
2021: exotic destination, Chania, Greece (illustrated poem) 
2022: reptiles, fence lizards (illustrated poem)
2023: painterly poetry, birth of impressionism (illustrated poem)

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 b) Today's Offering (May 26, 2024): 

 

MAY 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #14

a) Reprise of material posted on May 25 in previous years ...

2020: birdlore, cedar waxwings (illustrated poem)
2021: insects, ladybug dining (illustrated poem) 
2022: excursion, Toronto neighborhood (photo-collage)
2023: palindrome submitter, Hal Lelujah (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (May 25, 2024): 

 

 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. 

MAY 24, "pictures at a renovation": sixth week

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

2020: anagram swarm, very stable genius #7 (wordplay)
2021: humorists' talk, titty (poem) 
2022: Palindrome Valley, organizing the rally (poem)
2023: exotic destination, Haifa, Israel (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 24, 2024): 

 The renewed kitchen is finally being installed ...

MAY 23, photo-collage: Lishman's sculptures

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

2020: new world palindromes, #21,22 (wordplay)
2021: clot or not, hemophilia (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, mad as a hatter (erethism) (poem)
2023: defining opinion, honey (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 23, 2024): 

Bill Lishman's sculpture displayed at Tanenbaum Sculpture Garden, Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, is described by blogTO as "one of Toronto's best-kept art secrets". 

Note that Lishman, the inventor-aviator-naturalist father portrayed in the close-to-real-life story of the 1996 film "Fly Away Home", was a polymath who took up sculpting rather late in life.

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MAY 22, photo-collage: trumpeter swans at Lake Ontario

 

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 16-18 (wordplay maps)
2021: curtained verse, sago palms (illustrated poem) 
2022: binomial phrases, bump and grind (illustrated poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, amble (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 22, 2024): 

MAY 21, Olympic sport: kayak cross

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

2020: geysers, geyser guru (poem)
2021: geysers, 'The Geysers', Ca., (illustrated poem) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, farewell, wildlife (photo-collage)
2023: excursion, around Toronto, Victoria Day (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 21, 2024): 

Olympic sport

boating, kayak cross

  

MAY 20, singable satire: more from Julie Andrews -- "JEUX-DE-MOTS, ENCORE"

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

2020: singable satire, Iceland (Gershwin showtune) (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Fickle Twist of Verse #2 (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Indiana Song (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Tourguide Known as Virgil (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (May 20, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS, continuing from our prior blog-post of December 10, 2023.  

ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi" , as performed by Julie Andrews and the entourage of von Trapp family children in the hit musical "The Sound of Music".

  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2014; the medley, in fact, started with two spoofs based on English language homonyms, set to the same original song, developed for a never-performed spectacle entitled "The Sound of Homonyms". The French counterpart, reposted in April 2024, evolved shortly thereafter. And now we have another French-oriented spoof, never before published, to show you. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Jeux-de-Mots, Encore)" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

JEUX-de-MOTS, ENCORE

(to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi") 

Fardeau (far-DO) -- a burden, pain unearned
Doré (do-RAY) -- means clothed in golden rays

Remis (ruh-MEE) -- remailed, it was returned

Sofa (so-FA) -- where they eat canapés

Lasso (la-SO) -- a noose to catch taureaux (to-RO)

Zola (zoh-LA) -- a writer like Hugo

Sortie (sor-TEE) -- an outing or tirade

Pram for infant's jaunts -- Landau (lahn-DO).

FarDEAU, doRE, reMIS, soFA, lasSO, zoLA, sorTIE, lanDAU !  

 

MAY 19, poetic non-sequitur: almost kosher fare

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

2020: new world palindromes, #19,20 (wordplay)
2021: anagrams, American scramble-towns (wordplay map) 
2022: doctors and practices, ex-hospital chief (illustrated poem)
2023: birdlore, bird droppings (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 19, 2024): 

Authors' Note: 

fress: a Yiddish loanword for eating with vigor, whole-heartedly, as explained HERE

treif (TRAYF): Yiddish for foods expressly prohibited under the laws of Kahshrut, including pork and shellfish

kasher: synonym used in Israel and Sephardic venues elsewhere for the Ashkenazi word kosher; the regulations involving foodstuff are quite complex, and in addition to the prohibitions mandate separation of particular allowed sources, e.g. meat and dairy; kashery (noun and adjective) is the author's personal neologism.

It is suggested that those concerned about a particular eatery should consult  their spiritual advisor. 

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

MAY 18, postal places, USA: Fargo, ND

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

2020: mammalian wildlife, raccoons in the swamp (illustrated poem)
2021: defining opinion, hormone (poem) 
2022: insects, gnats (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, rhyming binomials H (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (May 18, 2024): 

Authors' Note: ND is the official abbreviation for the American state of North Dakota, whose largest city is Fargo with a population of 126,000. Located on the floodplain of the Red River, the city was named after William Fargo, director of the Northern Pacific Railway and honcho of Wells Fargo Express.

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