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-

poetry lyrics:/ While the Greek prefix chrono rhymes primely/ With 'sono and 'phono'

 sublimely,/ Here's my point pedagogic/ A scheme chronologic/

 Sorts events in an order that's timely.

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SEP 15, patients and their maladies: pica

 

poetry lyrics:/ Prudence, pregnant, got into the mood,/ Where she craved

 some bizarre forms of food./ Crudely nibbling on plywood/ She proclaimed,

"this is dry wood;/ It's much better (so good!) when unglued." 

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SEP 11, canoeing: Fauci, canny canoeist

 

poetry lyrics:/ My name's 'Fauci', and here's what i do:/ I stand guard

 in the family canoe./ Paddling? Me? Don't know how/ (From my place near the bow)./

 Get too close, I'll say, "Bow-wow" to you.  

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

* 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 7, transparent motive

 

TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *) 

transparent motive:

cut Medic- and foreign aid -- 

leave more for the rich.

Giorgio Coniglio

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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

* learn more HERE about senryu, 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 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

* 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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