NOV 1, 2026, photo-collage, Carolina lowcountry: wildlife revisited #2

  

little blue heron

Atlantic ghost crab

brown pelican, artistic rendering

cormorants and dolphin

roseate spoonbills, Deweese Island

sanderling

willet

yellow-crowned night heron

 

busy sanderlings

OCT 29, 2026, gruesome verse: scary upshot

Hallowe'en is approaching! 

Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.

 

OCT 27, 2026, photo-collage, Ontari-oases: fall colour-tour, late September

Today's Offering (October 27, 2026)

Proceed to the next stage in the colour tour (early October) by clicking HERE. 

OCT 25, 2026: submitted palindromes -- RANDOM PILES 58

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

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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OCT 23, 2026, two gruesome verses for Halloween

Authors' Note: Each year at Hallowe'en, all (living) persons, in addition to honoring tradition, must decide if they are ready to combat the zombie revolution.

 

Check out the whole collection of short poems, called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.

OCT 21, 2026, OEDILFIAN limericks: "democracy"

Today's Offering (OCT 1, 2026): 

OCT 21, 2026, gruesome verse: hidey-hole

 Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense"  by clicking HERE.

OCT 19, 2026, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): helpFULLY

Today's offering (October 19, 2026):  

poetry lyrics:/ Leslie's beau, a phycologist, helpfully,/ Studies extracts
 of algal-forms kelpfully, / Leading Leslie to earfully/ Lecture and cheerfully/
 Laud his accomplishments yelpfully.

Authors' Note: For more than a decade, the author of this verse has routinely taken a bedtime dose of alginate, a seaweed-derived product useful as an adjunct in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux.

Readers might enjoy reviewing our complete collection of poems about the adventures of linguist Leslie Moore in the land of suffixes. Click HERE! (or if you prefer prefixes, click HERE).

OCT 17, 2026, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): loneLINESS

 Today's Offering (October 17, 2026): 

poetry lyrics:/ Cell-phones crushed bring deep feelings of loneliness,/ With no calls,
 texts or bleeps, you mourn phoneliness./  One dilemma that's worse/ (Leslie Moore
 penned this verse)/ -- Jailed drug dealer -- bid farewell to stoneliness.

Readers might enjoy reviewing our complete collection of poems about the adventures of linguist Leslie Moore in the land of suffixes. Click HERE! (or if you prefer prefixes, click HERE).

   

OCT 15, 2026, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial

 Today's Offering (October 15, 2026): 

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.

OCT 13, 2026, American satire: distortion

Today's Offering (Ocober 13, 2026): 

poetry lyrics:/ Over gulible eyes, leaders pull/ A web of deceit made of wool -- /
  Frank lies or distortion/ 'Bout borders, abortion,/ And whether
 our cup is half-full./ They've got bucketfuls stuffed with such bull!

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find dozens more on this topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

OCT 11, 2026, defining opinion: fester

Today's Offering (October 11, 2026):

poetry lyrics:/ Today's expert speaker is Lester:/ "I'll delve into the meaning of fester./

 (I apologize if/ I give off a faint whiff.)"/ Lester fancies himself as a jester.

OCT 9, 2026, Canadiana: Haida Gwaii

sketch of an abandoned archeological site

 

Authors' Note:

snowbird: a Canadian retiree seeking a warmer venue to spend the wintry months

  The Queen Charlotte Islands are a Canadian archipelago situated between the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island and the Alaska Panhandle, with landmass one-third that of the Hawaiian Island 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.s (the latter located considerably further south). They had been the heartland of the aboriginal Haida people, who numbered thirty thousand at the time of first contact with European explorers in the eighteenth century. Their territory has a unique environment based on moderate temperatures and heavy rainfall. The province of British Columbia renamed the islands Haida Gwaii (HIE-duh GWIE[-ee], "islands of the people") in 2010.

You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".

OCT 7, 2026, decorative touches: "Oberlin Road" (fabric art)

 Decorative Touches: "Oberlin Road" 

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

OCT 5, 2026, reduplication: hocus-pocus

 

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other short verses SHORT VERSES  in which we have dealt with specific reduplications. 

If interested you could also discover three fairly lengthy PATTER-SONGS about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon. These songs form an important part of our cycle of 9 songs about "Word Pairs".

OCT 3, 2026, reptiles: painted turtles

Authors' Note: With four regional subspecies, the painted turtle, Chrysemus picta, has a range covering almost the entire United States and a part of Canada; it is North America's most common turtle.

  The verse's tale, based on a recent experience by the author dealt with an attractive female belonging to the eastern subspecies, although her accent was definitely southern.

a mud-encrusted painted turtle

 

day's end at the Brickworks, Toronto
"time for dinner"

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

OCT 1, 2026, poems about parasites: endoparasites

 Authors' Note: The term parasite derives via Latin from an old Greek term meaning "one who dines at another's table". To clarify more fully Lyle's terse explanation in the verse, endoparasites, taking up residence inside their host, get their nutrients by passive absorption or by burrowing in the tissues of their host, which could be you! There are very few cases where they spontaneously leave to go to another restaurant. Fortunately, effective treatments have been developed for many of these types of infestation.

You can review Giorgio's other verses about parasites, both external (ecto-) and internal (endo-) on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

SEP 29, 2026, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'Pan's panama hat'

Pan, unknown French sculptor, 19th C,
Lady Lever Museum, UK

You can review the whole collection of our illustrated verses on this topic  by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Panama palindrome parodies' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

And, if you are interested in seeing innumerable examples of spoofy palindrome variants on wordplay maps, you could embark on a journey through a collection of  blogposts entitled 'Tourists' Palindromic Guides: The Americas, #1 -#4'. All that's needed is to click on the link.

SEP 27, 2026, urban concerns: elevator reluctance

Authors' Note: 

groundling: the author's nickname for people who live on the ground floor, such as, up 'til now, his immediate family members

lift: Canadians, like their American neighbours, usually term this device an 'elevator'; to fit the tight space here, we borrowed the British synonym; however, it is noted that we retained our customary spelling of story (rather than the British storey)

helluva: common undefined slang that has been used in 40 verses on OEDILF to date (2023); presumably a distortion of hell of a ...

Another true personal story, apart from taking liberties with the floor numbers. The author currently inhabits a rental unit across the building from the suite being gloriously renovated/demolished by 'Carl the contractor'. This situation accords with advice by a relative to 'try out the lifestyle change' to ease the transition from house to 'bungalow in the sky'.

 

SEP 25, 2026: submitted palindromes -- RANDOM PILES 57

 

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

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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To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

SEP 23, 2026, American satire: MAGAciousness

Today's Offering (September 23, 2026): 

SEP 21, 2026, defining opinion: cruddy

 Authors' Note: Trudy's definition seems to be skewed towards the achievement of cruddiness, downplaying inherent or intrinsic cruddiness. We await further reports.

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.

SEP 19, 2026, painterly poetry: Alfred Sisley, en plein air

 

You can view review other information about Sisley and his painting by accompanying us to the Courtauld Gallery, London, UK, by clicking HERE.

OR, check out our entire collection of illustrated verses on 'painterly poetry' exhibited on "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE. 

SEP 17, 2026, travel reviews: INN-dwelling

SEP 15, 2026, spineless verse (invertebrates): chelipods

 

READING MORE WIDELY:

You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.