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.
June 18, 2021
JUN 18, birdlore: red-winged blackbirds
June 17, 2021
JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): ponderings
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, and by European-language attempts to convey its essence ina cross-cultural context, 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.
June 16, 2021
JUN 16, amphibians: American toad
June 15, 2021
JUN 15, patients and maladies: eye discharge
June 14, 2021
JUN 14, poetic Panama palindrome parody: Sir, .. a Paris
You can review the whole collection of our illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Panama palindrome parodies' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
June 13, 2021
JUN 13, doctors and their practices: the lecturing internist
June 12, 2021
JUN 12, portraits of couples: black (Australian) swans
June 11, 2021
JUN 11, death and the afterlife: leaving the planet (by canoe)
June 10, 2021
JUN 10, a brief saga (insects): clothes moths ('holesome verse')
June 9, 2021
JUN 9, English literature survey course: the diary of Samuel Pepys
June 8, 2021
JUN 8, yesterday's excursion: Toronto Brickworks
June 7, 2021
JUN 7, life in Palindrome Valley: family relations
June 6, 2021
JUN 6, boating: Rose's canoeing lesson
June 5, 2021
JUN 5, old world palindromes #23 and #24
You can view the entire collection of 'Old World Palindromes' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense"; start by clicking here.
June 4, 2021
JUN 4, Canadiana: 'Torontonian/Buffalonian'
June 3, 2021
JUN 3, to clot, or not: Virchow's triad
June 2, 2021
JUN 2, American satire: Georgia voters
June 1, 2021
May 30, 2021
MAY 30, reptiles: painted turtles
a Canadian colleague (midland painted turtle) |
May 29, 2021
MAY 29, oncologic verses: cancerophobia
May 28, 2021
MAY 28, funny bones: AVN (avascular necrosis) of the hip
May 27, 2021
MAY 27, amphibians: Dominican 'crapaud'
Be sure to check out the whole collection of 'Amphibians' by proceeding to "Edifying Nonsense." CLICK HERE !