FEB 10, a brief saga (trees): sabal palmetto trees

Authors' Note: Sabal palmettos, native trees growing along the southeastern and Gulf coastlines of the United States, are also distributed and planted in the temperate portions of the country further west.

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". 

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three or more stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other general offerings.  

  

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (March 2020), proceed to Walrus and Carpenter (Carolina lowcountry version)'.

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (Jan/Feb 2020), back up to 'Chemainus, British Columbia '.  

To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

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FEB 9, anagram swarm: tribute to a Senator

Picking up on last week's news, here is our tribute to an individual, Senator Mitt Romney, who decided to voice his opinion, even if that would result in invective and scorn being heaped on him by those who hoped to pressure him to toe the 'party-line'.


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scrambletown map: anagrams of "M-I-T-T_ R-O-M-N-E-Y

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FEB 8, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#5,#6)

You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE! 

FEB 7, poets' corner: the depressed limericist

Authors' Note:    In the limerick verse, neologisms include dehiscitude (reminiscent of 'dehiscence'), and remissitude (reminiscent of being 'remiss' in the sense of 'culpable'). Wound dehiscence, or 'failure of primary (wound) closure', is a feared surgical complication, found mostly in the province of abdominal surgeons and trauma surgeons; it seldom affects the professional practice of psychiatrists or limericists.

     

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

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FEB 6, Carolina lowcountry: Shipping News

And a more current news story (see yesterday's blogpost)...

                
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FEB 5, American satire: intelligence (Californians)

Authors' Note:  In the midst of the Trump-Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee issued the 'Nunes Memo', a four-page document that alleged that the FBI had conspired against President Donald Trump.

   Nunes has proceeded in the same vein in his later career, organizing the Republican Party’s role in the politically-charged 2019 House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings, as the Ranking Minority Member. 

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!  

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE POETRY ON THIS SITE?

POEMS: Poetry appearing on this site was written (unless otherwise indicated) by Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym), and for the most part contributed to the online humour dictionary-site...

OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). In its 18 years of existence, OEDILF has worked its way alphabetically from Aa- to Iz-, with the goal of accumulating a verse defining every meaning of every word in the English language. This co-operative project has  accumulated 120,000 carefully edited limericks, with completion date estimated to be around the year 2065. In the past seven years, Giorgio has contributed  over 900 poems to the project, with 870 finally accepted; the site's accession number for the approved poems are indicated at the bottom of the relevant slides in our presentations.

FEB 4, trees: Muir Woods

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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". 

FEB 3, wordplay map: sister-cities anagrams (4) Scadroe/CrabPulse

 

FEB 2, celebration of classic palindromes: Dennis sinned

IN CELEBRATION OF A PALINDROMIC DAY -- 02/02/2020


(With many thanks to my good friend, Eric K., for his reminder about this important occasion.)

Authors' Note:    Palindromes involving the protagonist Dennis highlight

cohorts of sinners of varying size. Several of these italicized sentences are in the classic repertoire of palindromists, and others appear to have been developed by the author. The size of the cohort is indicated in parentheses:

(1) Dennis sinned.

Dennis, Madam, sinned.

‘Dennis’, sides reversed is ‘sinned’. 

(2) Dennis and Edna sinned. 

Dennis, Eva, have sinned. 

(3) Dennis, Enid and Nadine sinned.

Dennis, Nora, Aaron sinned.

(4) Dennis, Nell, Edna and Ellen sinned.

(5) Dennis, Nell, Edna, Sis and Ellen sinned. etc.

(uncertainty) Dennis, Rod, Enid, Eva have dined or sinned.

And some authorities even contend:

(0) Dennis never even sinned.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: 'Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. 

FEB 1, a continuing brief saga (exotic destination): Chemainus, B.C., part #2

Continuing from part #1 (the first three stanzas of this six-verse poem) ...

Click HERE to see part #1.

Authors' Note:   For ecological reasons, the mining of uranium has been banned in British Columbia for several decades. Uranium has been extensively extracted from pitchblende ore at sites elsewhere in Canada, and is present in the reduced or 'uranous' chemical state.

   In the late 1890s, copper, gold and silver were discovered at Mt. Sicker on Vancouver Island. A gold-rush ensued, and mines were operated profitably in the area until 1909.   

   Today, the town of Chemainus (sheh-MAYN-uhs) is best known for its extensive exterior wall-murals which depict the history of its once-thriving resource extraction industries.

   The Dominion Astrophysical Laboratory, site of many important discoveries about the Milky Way, is located 70 km south, in Saanich BC.

 For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other  and other general offerings.  

  

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (February 2020), proceed to 'Sabal Palmetto Trees'.  

 To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

2020
2021
2022

2023.