A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over seventeen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
October 3, 2020
OCT 3, magical palindromes: 'A man à Paris'
October 2, 2020
October 1, 2020
OCT 1, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#39,#40)
September 30, 2020
SEP 30, insects: yellow jackets
September 29, 2020
SEP 29, savoir-faire: French enologists
You can review verses on this topic in a wider context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Check the post 'Vers Francais: Savoir-Faire' by clicking HERE.
September 28, 2020
SEP 28, pandemic poetry: D.Y.O.D.
DYOD: do your own dishes, an analogous motto proposed for software-enhanced 'remote get-togethers' via internet
Zoom: software for interactive on-line meetings
Other verses by the author relating to the viral pneumonia pandemic of 2020 (COVID-19) include attribute, calamari, cetacean, confinement, and dine in.
September 27, 2020
SEP 27, Toronto ravines: Sherwood
September 26, 2020
SEP 26, Toronto oases: Humber Bay
A reminder: Giorgio Coniglio can now be found on Facebook.
September 25, 2020
SEP 25, Toronto ravines: Park Drive Reservation
September 24, 2020
SEP 24, trees: sago palms
September 23, 2020
SEP 23, poets' corner: limerick addiction
September 22, 2020
SEP 22, Toronto ravines: Riverdale Farm, photocollages #1-#2
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
September 21, 2020
SEP 21, Toronto ravines: Riverdale Farm (poem)
September 20, 2020
SEP 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "RHYMING BINOMIALS, A to L"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
A rhyming binomial |
There’s age and stage, bug in a rug, (out and) about, and ants in pants
September 19, 2020
SEP 19, wordplay maps: r-i-c anagrams #5+#6
September 18, 2020
SEP 18, savoir-faire: corniches (Nice)
September 17, 2020
SEP 17, palinku (poetic novelty): baked goods
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
You can view all our "palinku" verses if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
September 16, 2020
SEP 16, waterfowl: gallinules
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
September 15, 2020
SEP 15, reptiles: crocodilian
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'.
cellphone photo by G.C. at CawCaw SC: that's about as close as he wanted to get |
September 14, 2020
SEP 14, Toronto ravines: Brickworks photocollages #1-#3
September 13, 2020
SEP 13, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#37,#38)
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
September 12, 2020
SEP 12, political palindromes, NNN, GLITCH
From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.
For FORWARD, proceed to the next set of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES' on October 6.
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set on August 5.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST on this topic.