MAY 30, singable satire: "ICELAND" show-tunes, written by Gershwin and Coniglio

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

2020: singable satire, Are Your Ethics Low? (parody lyrics) 
2021: singable satire, Dylan's "Otto" (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, The Play's A Sting (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Ewe-Yew-You (parody-lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (May 30, 2024):  

MAY 29, pill-poppin' poetry: 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)

b) Today's Offering (May 29, 2024):  

poetry lyrics:/ I've been backed in a corner; it's hopeless./ Fellow workers and fam
 think I'm copeless./ I'd start over again,/ Lean to live with the pain,/ Staying staight
 in the main, and live dopeless.

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: Charleston gardens: creeping fig (illustrated poem)

2021: funny bones, avascular necrosis (poem) 
2022: for classic language lovers, Homo latinophonius  (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, renovation pics (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (May 28, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ You wrote poetry. Glad that folks read it?/ This co-operative site
 earns due credit./ But Contributing-Eds/ (Some) concoct in their heads/ Subtle
 bullying done with an edit. 

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 bee

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 5 (wordplay map)

2021: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 17 (wordplay map)

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 7 (wordplay map) 
2023: excursion, around Washington, DC (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (May 27, 2024): 

incidental current photo

A sad but determined bee, 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, Canada: Grande Prairie, AB

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)

b) Today's Offering (May 26, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ A goblin, a troll and a fairy/ Stroll into a bar in Grande Prairie./ AB.
 But no service!/ Joel the bartender (nervous)/ roars, "Kids, just next door
there's a dairy."

 

Authors' Note: The above verse combines three disparate plot-elements: limericks about bar jokes, our verses on North America's postal places, and the approach of Hallowe'en.

If you want to know more about the Canadian province of Alberta, consult our verse on Red Deer, AB, or ask speedysnail, author of the OEDILFian poem Alberta.

 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)

 

MAY 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 29

 

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.

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: new world palindromes, #39 (wordplay map)
2022: Palindrome Valley, organizing the rally (poem)
2023: word-pairs, rhyming binomials O-Si (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (May 24, 2024): 

 The renewal 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, #23,24 (wordplay maps)
2021: clot or not, hemophilia (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, mad as a hatter (erethism) (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, Mr. Owl ... . (poem)

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. Earlier photos of his work obtained by GC are displayed in a post on November 12, 2020.

TO SEE MORE STUFF: To see older or newer material  (posted daily, or at least on most  'good' days), CLICK below the Comments Section, on 'Older Post' or 'Newer Post'.

MAY 22, photo-collage (waterfowl): trumpeter swans

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 9 (wordplay map)
2021: Greek prefixes, hyper- and hypo- (poem)
2022: binomial phrases, bump and grind (illustrated poem)
2023: word-pairs, rhyming binomials M-N, (wordplay-lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (May 22, 2024): 

tranquil wateere, mysterious reflection. 

family photo:
immature forms have brownish feathers
. and crimson dappling of lower beak

trumpeter swan couples are usually monogamous for life

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

MAY 21, defining opinion: inveigle

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

2020: geysers, geyser guru (poem)
2021: geysers, 'The Geysers', Ca. (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, brown pelicans (photo-collage)
2023: excursion, around Toronto, Victoria Day (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (May 21, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Abe proclaimed, "I woulld cheat or finagle/

 For a sesame-seed

 coated bagel/ With a shmear and some lox/ From those

 delis (two blocks!)/

That their clientele's favor inveigle."

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.

  

MAY 20, W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Iceland (Gershwin showtune) (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Stem Cells .. (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Indiana Song (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Tourguide Known as Virgil (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (May 20, 2024):  

MAY 19, poetic non-sequitur: almost kosher fare

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

2020: new world palindromes, #21,22 (wordplay)
2021: amphibians, 'crapaud' toad (illustrated poem) 
2022: doctors and practices, ex-hospital chief (illustrated poem)
2023: organic brain poetry, hyperthyroid mania (poem)

 b) Today's offering (May 19, 2024)

poetry lyrics:/ At the restaurant called "Marsha's Noshery",/ You'll love fressing
 by golly and goshery./ All our dishes are "safe" -- / We don't often serve treif ,/
 But we won't guarantee the food's kashery.

.

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, appended adventures of Leslie Moore: categorically

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: word-pairs, rhyming binomials I-L (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (May 18, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Leslie Moore's cousin Vic wrote some verse./ The result? Unequivocally
 worse/ Versus hers, categorically/ (Metered dysphorically),/ "What I need is
 to practice (rehearse)."

Authors' Note:  Until this minute, Giorgio had apparently not even heard of Leslie's cousin Vic.

MAY 17, palinku (poetic novelty): denial #3

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

2020: nuclear cardiology, published haiku verses (journal publication)
2021: palinku, hats (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Dennis's ongoing sin (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, denial 3 (poetic novelty)

Tb) Today's Offering (May 17, 2024): 

  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 verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

MAY 16, defining opinion: hod

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

2020: trees, silver maples (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, root canals (illustrated poem) 
2022: saving the planet, species loss (poem)
2023: word-pairs, rhyming binomials H (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (May 16, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Claude, the concrete-tycoon, thought it odd:/ Christmas gift of a monogrammed hod./ In a laughable gaffe/ His cement-mixing staff/ Reinforced, It's a trough on a rod."

Authors' Note: The hod, a manual device used primarily for carrying bricks or mortar, is discussed HERE. 

MAY 15, exemplification: fauna

a) Reprise of material posted on May 15 in previous years ...

2020: post-pandemic, quiet day in the lowcountry (photo-collage)
2021: bi-lyrical limerick, Syrian refugees in Canada (illustrated poem) 
2022: gun-control, massacre at Mother Emanuel (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, fifth week pics (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (May 15, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ In this summary para I wanna/ List endless examples of 'fauna':/
 Like antelope, elephant/ (Camels are relevant)/ Elk, turtle, emu, iguana./
 Also dung-beetle, shrike, ant, piranha.    

 To review our whole collection of "exemplary exemplifications", click HERE. 

MAY 14, Canadiana: dual citizenship

a) Reprise of material posted on May 14 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, "It is what it is" (poem)
2021: Panama palindrome, a cat, a hat (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, Swan Lake S.C. (live-photo collage)
2023: reminiscences, Mother's Day (photo-collage)

 

b) Today's Offering (May 14, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ In my family each member's a "dual"/ Except me;
 fate inspiring pursual/ Of a brave leader who'll/ Refuel US renewal/
 And reverse proposed policies cruel (Such as citizen birthright renewal)! 

Authors' Note: In the US recently, there has been a concerted effort to pin many of society's putative ills on immigrants. In Canada, on the other hand, the significant portion of citizens who hold two passports is honoured. Commonly, through training programs and other personal initiatives (e.g., marriage), the US is the second country involved.

As a feature left over from earlier times, when there were fewer global immigrants, the expression dual citizen, or even more curtly dual, is assumed by Canadians to imply, failing further specification, a person who holds citizenship in both the US and Canada.

The verb subdue, and its derivatives seem to derive from a different linguistic root.

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.