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.
February 18, 2021
FEB 18, neologism (personal): electile dysfunction
February 17, 2021
FEB 17, palinku: partying #4
In this post, we will continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay, inspired by Japanese haiku poetry. This new form, in its English-language version, 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 stanza) has been color-coded. And, as you likely noticed, the first three verses in this collection have already been published here, in November 2021 through January 2021, using the 17th of each month. Here we present the final element, part #4, in what happens to be a relatively long study in verse. Other topics for palinku have usually resulted in shorter creations, most commonly one or two verses. Although the format for these poems is highly constraining, readers can look forward to a spectrum of poems involving such divergent topics as human emotions, family interactions, gender relations, workplace dynamics, politics, culinary matters and the natural world.
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes') which you can review by clicking HERE.
FEB 16, classic palindrome: 'O Stone, be not so'
February 15, 2021
FEB 15, anagram swarm: 'I-N-C-I-T-E-D A R-I-O-T'
Authors' Note:
Sens: slang for American senators.
Representative Jamie Raskin was the chief House Manager (prosecuting the charge of impeachment) during the recent trial of ex-president D.J. Trump in the U.S. Senate.
February 14, 2021
FEB 14, holidays and celebrations: Valentine's Day
February 13, 2021
FEB 13, old world palindromes #15 and #16
You can view the entire collection of 'Old World Palindromes' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense"; start by clicking here.
February 11, 2021
FEB 11, classic palindrome: 'Dennis sinned' ... PLUS, A PALINDROMIC DAY CELEBRATION, 12/02/2021
CELEBRATING A PALINDROMIC DATE -- 12/02/2021
Here's a reprise honoring last year's palindromic day...
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.)
This brief poetic musing was originally published here on February 2, 2020. By the way, if you are overwhelmed by an urge to sing about Dennis's sinful relationships, you can satisfy those urgings by clicking HERE.
February 10, 2021
FEB 10, a brief saga (bottom line of medical humor): the word on GERD
February 9, 2021
FEB 9, old world palindromes #13 and #14
February 8, 2021
FEB 8, American satire: New year's greeting to Sen. Hawley
February 7, 2021
FEB 7, at heart: heart block
February 6, 2021
FEB 6, old world palindromes #11 and #12
You can view the entire collection of 'Old World Palindromes' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense"; start by clicking HERE.
February 5, 2021
FEB 5, death and the afterlife: last breath
February 4, 2021
FEB 4, trees: George's apple-twigs
February 3, 2021
FEB 3, magical palindromes: 'Ma is as selfless as Dad'
February 2, 2021
FEB 2, funny bones: fracture of scaphoid (carpal navicular)
February 1, 2021
FEB 1, wordplay maps: r-i-c anagrams #13+#14
January 30, 2021
JAN 30, insects: the (cock)roach
January 29, 2021
JAN 29, old world palindromes #9 and #10
January 28, 2021
JAN 28, etymology: 'horse'
January 27, 2021
JAN 27, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' contest: other submissions, #2 and #3
January 26, 2021
JAN 26, wordplay maps: American Scramble-towns 13,14
January 25, 2021
JAN 25, birdlore: (American) robins
January 24, 2021
JAN 24, American satire: freedom-from-Trump day
January 23, 2021
JAN 23, handbook on trace minerals and vitamins: zinc deficiency and anosmia
January 22, 2021
JAN 22, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' contest: other submissions, #1
Continuing from previous posts