SEP 30, selected pics: Gaudi vista, Barcelona

 

  

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SEP 29, poetic non-sequitur: Spanish greeting

 

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

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SEP 27, selected pics: Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

 

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SEP 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 45

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.  

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SEP 23, selected pics: sculpture at the Musee du Quai d'Orsay

   

"Despair",Jean-Joseph Perraud, 1869

"Anacreon", Eugene Guillaume, 1851

"Sapho", James Didier, 1851, 

"Virgile", Gabriel Thomas, 1861

"Eve, after the Sin", E. Delaplanche, 1869

Virgil, left; Dante, right,
Orsay Museum, Paris

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SEP 21, selected pics: other impressionistic scenes at the Orsay Museum

 

"Portrait of Doctor Gauchet", Vincent van Gogh, 1890

"Thatched Cottages at Cordeville", Vincent van Gogh, 1890

"The Church at Auvers", Vincent van Gogh, 1890

"The Siesta (after Millet)", Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Click HERE to find another informative posting about Van Gogh's final year of painting at Auvers-sur-Oise.

"Sunset at Ivry", Armand Guilaumin, 1873

"History", Pierre Puvis de Chavanne,
1866 (pre-impressionism)

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SEP 19, selected pics: impressionistic boating scenes at the Orsay Museum, Paris

 

"In the 'Norwegian' ", Claude Monet, 1887

"Etretat Beach and the Porte d'Amont", Claude Monet, 1883

"The Bridge at Argenteuil", Claude Monet, 1874

L'homme a la Barre", Theo van Rysselberghe, 1892

"The Green Sail 1804", Paul Signac

infrequent bateaux-mouches on the Seine
 owing to the cool damp weather

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SEP 17, sleek Greek prefixes: CHRONO-

Clicking HERE will introduce you to our entire collection of verses about the Greek prefixes!

 

MAR 28, neologism for our times

STRUMPIDITY

What's needed is a term for an offbeat view of US prosperity and the economic situation at the end of the nineteenth century. A few feel that insight might warrant a Nobel Prize, or perhaps there's one to be awarded for bullying/bribing two warring parties into a peace treaty.

LIMERICK:

He's dissolved the world order -- fluidity,

Though adored by enablers -- cupidity.

When he's finally dumpèd

We'll portray it as "STRUMPID" --

An era that honored stupidity.

Giorgio Coniglio

HAIKU (17-syllable)

strumpidity: a

neologism target --

such peculiar times !

Giorgio Coniglio

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SEP 9, photo-collage: catching up with life in the Lowcountry

crab

laughing gull

a secretive great blue heron

an oddly-gendered sago palm

Readers can review an illustrated 10-line verse dealing with the gender of sago palms on our blogpost of May 22, 2021.

great egret, at the creek

snowy egret, at the spillway

 tri-colored heron, in the marsh

   

TODAY'S POEM (senryu  *) 

a lone night-heron

in the intertidal pond

stalks its feckless prey.

Giorgio Coniglio

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SEP 6, transparent motive

 

TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *) 

transparent motive:

cut Medic- and foreign aid -- 

leave more for the rich.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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SEP 5, lowcountry outlook (three terse reptilian verses)

TODAY'S POEMS (senryu *) 

LOWCOUNTRY REPTILES #1

choosing limblessness,

snakes and some legless lizards

prefer to slither.

Giorgio Coniglio

LOWCOUNTRY REPTILES #2

discarded rubber 

tire-tread near a Southern pond --

Oops! alligator!

Giorgio Coniglio

LOWCOUNTRY REPTILES #3

a brave anole,

patrolling the boundary

displays his dewlap.

Giorgio Coniglio

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You can review photos and illustrated herpetologic verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Verses about Reptiles' (don't worry! no snake-photos)' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

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SEP 3, research newsflash: a model for Alzheimer's disease !!!

 

 A FELINE MODEL (under our noses)

Science newsflash that makes you contented 

(Family elders of yours got demented).

Keen researchers make beelines

Treating old senile felines, 

And the cats (fancy that!), have consented.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

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SEP 1, expressing depression (five more terse verses)

 

TODAY'S POEMS (senryu *) 

DEPRESSING POEM #6

a misguided man

unconstitutionally

redirects our world.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #7

children's health report 

by convinced contrarian 

faked citations. Oy!

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #8

dismantling science

is easily accomplished --

not so the converse.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #9

harsh reality

curtails global achievements -- 

a dark age descends.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #10

I am overwhelmed -- 

 my "globalist", "woke" world-view

is cast asunder.

Giorgio Coniglio

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