JAN 4, Stand on guard (Canada): inadmissible

poetry lyrics:/ Your new prez visit Canada? Nope./ 'Inadmissible felon" -- no hope!/ 
(Don's a target for busting/ Justin prays, and we're trusting)./ 
Schengen-countries, like Italy/ Might, as well, ban him pitifully -- / 
Can't drop in, and cleanse sin with the Pope.

Authors' Note:  In Canada, a longstanding rule decrees a candidate for entry (visitor or immigrant) "inadmissible" if they have a criminal record elsewhere.  Over 30 other countries have such rules, although generally less harsh and better specified, dependent on length of incarceration, etc. The European Union ('Schengen-countries') will activate new regulations in mid-2025, likely more severe than previous versions. The government of Italy undertakes policing functions for the small, enclosed, but otherwise independent Vatican City.

Incidentally,  the current US President, Joe Biden, had been scheduled to visit Pope Francis in Rome on January 11th to present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The visit was postponed due to the California wildfires. 

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JAN 1, postal places, USA: Fargo, ND

poetry lyrics:/ Carl discharged some emotional cargo/ 'Bout his time teaching
music in Fargo,/ ND: "Tempo frozen --/ Not the score that I'd chosen."/
Now he's left, life's a langorous largo. 

Authors' Note: ND is the official abbreviation for the American state of North Dakota, whose largest city is Fargo with a population of 126,000. Located on the floodplain of the Red River, the city was named after William Fargo, director of the Northern Pacific Railway and honcho of Wells Fargo Express.

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DEC 29, culinary verse: gyozas (potstickers)

poetry lyrics:/ Tomodachi, I'd like to propose a/ Tasty treat any wise hosuto knows a/
Texture you've dreamed/ of --,/they're fried and then steamed -- / It's the Japanese
 dumpling: gyoza.   

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DEC 27, defining opinion: hopeful

poetry lyrics:/ Hopeful Holly the optimist's speech:/ "Common goals?

 We've made progress in each./ With continuing luck/ A great deal will be struck --

 / A successful conclusion we'll reach."/ (Not her fault when things halt

 with a screech.)

Authors' Note: There's no denying that Holly the optimist has used a number of cliches in her speech; nor that often (always "unexpectedly") things come to a screeching halt.

Our series of seven blogposts, "Defining Opinions", on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" each shows a selection of similar verses (six in each collection) submitted to OEDILF  (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these readily on one visit by clicking HERE.

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DEC 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 48

 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.  

DEC 23, photo-collage: editorial retraction

And a couple other pics, now that we're back in the Carolina Lowcountry ...

great blue heron, hunting at dusk

reflected sun, setting at the boardwalk,
Ravenel Bridge in the background

a great egret surveys the boating scene

shrimpers at Shem Creek, SC

helicopter parents mind their gosling

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu  *) 

laughing gull

squads of laughing gulls

patrol the public beach, for

crumbs of children's snacks.

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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DEC 21, photo-collage: more Lowcountry miscellany

 This is a followup to our prior post of May 17, 2025.

a majestic great egret

cool oldster at a public dance,
Marine Park, Mt Pleasant
 (under the Cooper River Bridge)

a loaded cargo ship proceeds up the darkening Cooper River.

 

juvenile night heron

TODAY'S POEM (senryu  *) 

Barber's "Adagio" --

string orchestra or quartet

courts the infinite.

 

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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DEC 19, photo-collage: mammalian talking heads, H to O

This tongue-in-cheek collection is another post, following up on the earlier series "Avian Talking Heads". All the photos (except for a few noted exceptions) were taken by G.C.

prior mammalian participants

(May 19 -- click HERE): armadillo, basset hound, bison, capuchin monkey, chipmunk, cottontail rabbit, cow, elephant seal, giraffe, goat, gray squirrel, grizzly bear. 

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: hippopotamus, horse, ibex, llama, moose, mule, naturalist, olive baboon, orangutan.

hippopotamus

horse

ibex (tur)

llama

moose (metallic)

mule

naturalist (Audubon)

olive baboon

 Sumatran orangutan, catching a nap

If you enjoyed this foolish collection (that started with the concept of avian talking heads) you might want to proceed to several more posts featuring mammals, as in today's blogpost. Eventually, there will even be posts featuring other life forms! 

Click here to proceed to mammalian talking heads P to Z.

Or, click here if you would like to go back and review the whole series, starting with avian talking heads.

Talking Heads are a media resource:

Seasoned viewers at breaking news' source,

As in sports, storms, disasters.

But they're sometimes just 'masters'

Who the show-host's weird views reinforce.

Giorgio Coniglio

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DEC 17, exotic destination: Nome, Alaska

poetry lyrics:/ For my bucket list, travel to Nome/ Leads the pack above

 Fargo and Rome/ But I want you to know, its/ Cold shoulder to poets/

 Might push me, this year, to stay home. 

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DEC 15, (re)duplication: fuddle-duddle

poetry lyrics:/ Trudeau (pere) got our heads in a muddle/ When he mumbled,

 (he claimed),"Fuddle-duddle"./ (Then curmudgeons would cluck/ "In the House,

 he said f***!"),/ Back in days when our language was subtle. 

Authors' Note: (usually, FUD-uhl-dud-uhl, or with a French lilt, as here, fud-uhl-DUD-uhl)

fuddle-duddle: an infrequently used (re)duplication, voiced dismissively in dealing with opinions that the speaker rejects.

In 1971 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, father of current PM Justin Trudeau, unleashed a minor scandal by using unparliamentary language in the Canadian House of Commons. A portion of the ensuing brouhaha, deftly sidestepped by Trudeau, revolved around whether he had actually spoken or merely mouthed the inappropriate words.

Web discussion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddle_duddle

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other 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".

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