AUG 28, OEDILFian limericks: haiku poetry 1

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

2020: new world palindromes, 30 (wordplay)
2021: culinary verse, zucchini/courgettes (illustrated poem) 
2022: saving the planet, summer air quality (poem)
2023: reptiles, painted turtles (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 28, 2024):  

 

AUG 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 32

 

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.

  

AUG 24, decorative touches: "Gaudi bench" (fabric art)

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

2020: American satire, miscellany (poems, various)
2021: poet's corner, free verse (poem) 
2022: patients and maladies, intermittent claudication (poem)
2023: Leslie Moore's suffixes, feckLESSNESS (poem)

 b)Decorative Touches: "Gaudi Bench" 

 Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches", (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023. 

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

AUG 23, Captain R's impossible mission: quixotic dream

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

2020: limerick variations, embedded illustrations (illustrated poem)
2021: limerick variation, C-rhyme extension (illustrated poem) 
2022: Canadiana, compassionate use (poem)
2023: scopes of medicine, endoscopic collage (selected poems)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 23, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Captain R dreams his mission methodically-- / To combat speech
 that's spoken spasmodically:/ Rescue Rs from exclusion,/ Slay unwritten intrusion,/
 And restore rhotic phonics quixotically.

Authors' Note: "Captain R" is a muse who appears episodically in the authors' dreams. R. is their abbreviation for rhotic (ROA-tik) dialects in English, i.e. those that honour R-sounds as they are written. The Captain, who clearly has been influenced by the nearby letter "q" as in Don Quixote, and wears a tight-fitting shirt emblazoned with a large "R", has inspired a quest that culminated in the other verses in this collection (at the website OEDILF submitted as articulate, intrusive Rs, and articular.)

Quixotic, BTW, is used to described ideas and actions that are foolishly impractical and romantic.

You can find our other verses dealing with non-rhotic accents under the listing "Captain R's Impossible Mission".  Click HERE. 

AUG 22, planet-saving verse: enzootic viral ending

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

2020: Toronto ravines, lower Don valley (photo-collage)
2021: Panama palindrome parody, A dog, ... a pagoda. (wordplay) 
2022: funny bones, olecranon (elbow) fracture (illustrated poem)
2023: patients and maladies, ganglion cyst (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 22, 2024):  

poetry lyrics:/ Man's sad fate, 'though undated awaits -- / Enzootic rogue
 virus mutates./ Source is likely a big farm,/ Mink, chicken or pig farm./
Viral spread, final chaos creates. 

                   

Authors' Note:  Having suffered the ravages of Covid-19, has humanity's ability to cope with outbreaks of infectious disease improved? Not too much. This pessimistic verse was written after seeing a TV documentary revealing updates on what we have learned about the potential threats of further epidemics. 

You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

AUG 21, photo-collage: Long Lake, Nanaimo, BC

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

2020: Greek prefixes, apo- (illustrated poem) 
2021: new world palindrome, #44 (wordplay map)

2022: classic palindrome, Dogma, I am God! (poem)
2023: terminal exclamation, YIPPEE! (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 21, 2024):

  Photos obtained by Giorgio Coniglio, and edited on his i-phone 13 ...

    

 

AUG 19, objectionable adjectives: 'estival' and 'hibernal,

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

2020: bottom line of humor, Beano (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, prognathism (poem)

2022: toxic vignette, digitalis toxicity (poem) 
2023: Carolina lowcountry, beach at Sullivan's Island (photo-collage)

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

poetry lyrics:/  Lexicographers picket our festival -- /The insist, summer's midst, "it's
 an estival."/ They urge winter stay-cation/ Be termed hibernation. As the nerds
 who love words, they know best-of-all.

b) Today's Offering (Aug 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: In English there are fortunately many nouns that we can use as adjectives when the situation demands. In the opinion of this author, summer (adj.) and winter (adj.) are less cumbersome descriptors than estival and hibernal, despite the opinion of some lexicographers. 

You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight verses) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.

 

AUG 18, verses about insects: beer bugs

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

2020: poets' corner, philosophy of limericks (poem)
2021: old world palindromes, national wrap-up (wordplay) 
2022: Italian loanwords, cicerone (poem)
2023: Toronto's Harbourfront, dance performance 3 (action photos)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 18, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: / It's too clear, our dear Doug's a career bug -- / A Glischrochilus, 
  eerily queer bug./ Ruining fruit crops and drinks/ (His aquatic skill stinks),/ He'll succinctly
 appear as a beer bug./  So, don't swig 'til you peer in your beer mug.   

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 

AUG 17, palinku (poetic novelty): global warming

 a) Review of material posted on August 17 in previous years ...

2020: palinku, veggies (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, sweet treats, 1 (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Canadiana (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, European capitals (poetic novelty)

(Editors' Note: Additional information is available for readers in our  poems about the "great auk", (an extinct bird species), and  "global warming").

You can readily view all our palinku verses (short poems of this type) if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

AUG 16, domestic hazards: eavestroughs (gutter-cleaning)

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

2020: TO ravines, Cedarvale (photo-collage) 

2021: binomial phrases, hale and hearty (poem)
2022: waterfowl, habitat restored (illustrated poem)
2023: at heart, hyperlipidemia (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 16, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Old Fred, the frail homeowner mutters,/ "Every year, I must
 clean those damn gutters./  Tree debris, needles, leaves/ Rot and clog up the eaves./
 I hate ladders,"/ As downward he flutters./ (Several cursewords, on landing, he utters).   

Authors' Note: Despite a plethora of new products, many touted to last a lifetime, keeping evestroughs unclogged, free-running and cleanable is a major challenge. In man residential areas, nearby trees seem determined to use these moist, dark channels to produce compost, and encourage growth of seedlings. 

Falls, a major source of disability in folks like Fred and his elderly colleagues are largely preventable. 

 You can view an extensive collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'DOMESTIC HAZARDS' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

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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 Material4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

AUG 15, basic medical science: Haversian canals

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

2020: commercial product, cell-phones for lizards (illustrated poem)
2021: reptiles, beneficial snakes (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, FBIer (illustrated poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, leaving with regrets (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 15, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Clopton Havers researched on his own/ Canaliculi running through bone./
  Royal College peer panels/ Named these vascular channels:/ "As Haversian canals
 they'll be known."   

 

  Readers can enjoy our whole collection of verses devoted to "basic medical science" by clicking HERE. 

AUG 14, American satire: hokum; e tu, loser resolute!

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, RedMast/Siren Club, 13 (wordplay map)
2021: scopes of medicine: mediastinoscopy (poem)
2022: STD poetry, gon-dom and condom (poem)
2023: urban concerns, dog park (ilustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 14, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/  You can patch naval leaks using oakum./ Doc's on vaca,
 replaced by a locum. / But to stay out of jail/ You might hopelessly flail/ To undo
 old elections --  That's hokum. 

Author's Note:

oakum: naval term for a caulking material prepared by impregnating old unravelled ropes with tar

locum (tenens): Latin loanword for a replacement or substitute for a vacationing professional (doctor, dentist or lawyer)

hokum: a term of disparagement for misguided proposals or ideas, akin to gobbledegook and its lexicographic collaborators

Almost three years after the event, in August 2023, it was promised that there would be released "irrefutable" and "overwhelming" evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 American presidential election. The promise, made amidst a welter of criminal indictments, was quickly withdrawn.

c) Palindrome for the occasion ... 

E tu, loser resolute!

We hope that you enjoyed this submission. You can find 40 or so poems e on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

AUG 13, trees: camphor laurel

 a) Reprise of material posted on August 13 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, Republicans-In-Canada, r-i-c #4-6 (wordplay maps)
2021: to clot or not, anti-coagulant drugs (poem) 
2022: birdlore, cattle egrets (illustrated poem)
2023: medical testing, screening for disease (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 13, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/Here's a story Australian: one grieves/ When one learns of the tale
 Wiki weaves/ Cinnamomum camphora -- Koalas deplore a/ Pervasive intruder
 with leaves. 

Authors' Note:  Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs noted for the aromatic oils found in their leaves and bark. 

  C. camphora, a tree important for production of camphoraceous oils in parts of Asia, was introduced into Australia as an ornamental in 1822. The hardy invaders have degraded the environment as they spread, clogging sewers, changing the composition of the soil, and taking over habitat from the eucalyptus on which koalas feed.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

AUG 12, folio-entry, couples: sheep

 a) Review of material posted on August 12 in prior years ...

2020: poetic non-sequitur, cumulative song (poem)
2021: portraits of couples, trumpeter swans (photo folio) 
2022: portraits of couples, black-crowned night herons (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, wild turkeys (photo folio)

trumpeter swans

b) Today's Offering (Aug 12, 2024): 

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

AUG 11, defining opinion: humorless

  a) Reprise of material posted on August 11 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, MMM (wordplay) 

2021: Palindrome Valley, bidirectional pen (illustrated poem)
2022: defining opinion, holdout (poem)
2023: exotic destinations, air travel (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 11, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Irma, scowling, "For what it is worth,/ I've been humorless,

 gravely, since birth./ Lacking laughter, this bunny/ Deems punchlines unfunny./

 Jokes and wordplay, I'd savor a dearth./ I judge few things more worthless than mirth."

The collections "Defining Opinions", on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows sequential verses with similar format published at  OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). Following the links through the seven groupings, you can readily see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

 

AUG 10, photo-collage, Ontari-oases: unusual sightings, Muskoka waterfowl

a) Reprise of material posted on August 10 in previous years ...

2020: hellenophilia, Aegean cat (poem - 'brief saga')

2021: savoir-faire, French denial (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: American satire, Mar-a-Lago (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: creative anachronism, herbicides (poem - 'brief saga')

b) Today's Offering (Aug 10, 2024):

You can review  illustrated verses about boating in Muskoka by proceeding to 'Reverse Strokes: 'Verses About Canoeing' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

For more revealing photographs of loons in Muskoka, not to mention an appealing limerick-saga, you might want to click (or cluck) to get to the recent post 'Life As a Loon' on our full-service blogsite 'Edifying Nonsense'.

AUG 9, reprehensible modern history: Confederate states and statues

 

a) Reprise of material posted on August 9 in previous years ...

2020: bi-lyrical limerick, liquor vs. candy (poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #43 (wordplay map) 
2022: word-pairs, reduplication hobos (poem)
2023: poets' corner, wit's end (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 9, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ "With that monument trashed," said the client,/ "I repent, I'm

 no longer defiant./ My annoyance confessed,/ Jail avidance seems best/

 On your mercy, dear Judge, I'm reliant." 

Pled his lawyer, "this stunt's perpetration/ Is a 'crime', but sme folks feel elation./

 Our case: History berates/ The Confederate states/ 

Such statues dishonor our nation." 

Authors' Note: More than 150 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the role of the Confederacy continues to generate high emotions. 

View the entire collection of poetic assertions on this topic at our more encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense', by clicking HERE.