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.
May 24, 2022
MAY 24, life in Palindrome Valley: organizing the Palindrome Rally
May 23, 2022
MAY 23, toxic vignette: 'mad as a hatter' (the Danbury shakes)
May 22, 2022
MAY 22, binomial phrases: "bump and grind"
May 21, 2022
MAY 21, Carolina lowcountry: farewell, wildlife!
great egret at a pond in a nearby luxury condo. Watch your step! |
a green (Carolina) anole, on patrol |
Carolina anole at leisure, sunning on our front-yard sago palm |
a handsome southern toad, occasional visitor to our backyard |
brown pelicans strolling after dinner at the neighborhood 'pelicatessen' |
pelican swimming fantasia |
wood stork and Canada goose |
a white ibis sits for a portrait |
May 20, 2022
MAY 20, singable satire: John Denver sings "INDIANA SONG"
Dark Schemes
Rosenstein
Brennan's Tweet
"Get Me Roger Stone - the Song"
to the tune of "Annie's Song"
A 'sad standard for ... groveling',
Like at cabinet meetings
Where he's 'humbled' by Trump.
Using barbs like 'oleaginous',
Like 'repulsive' and 'toady',
George fills up his column --
His disdain doesn't slump.
Then George targets invective
At Mike's praise for Arpaio,
At a rally in Tempe
Near the home of McCain.
George invokes Mike's 'vocation'
(Servile ingratiation)
And asks voters repudiate
That mob's M.A.G.A.* again.
* Make America Great Again, slogan of the 2016 Republican campaign.
Mike Pence Vice-President 2017- . Previous experience as Republican governor of his home-state of Indiana. Described as 'conspicuously devout' by Will, presumably picked for his current post due to his freedom from financial or lifestyle imbroglios.
John McCain high-profile long-serving senator from Arizona, Republican candidate for President in 2008, struggling with terminal brain cancer at the time of these events.
May 19, 2022
MAY 19, doctors and their practices: ex-hospital chief
May 18, 2022
MAY 18, insects: gnats
May 17, 2022
MAY 17, palinku (poetic novelty): Dennis's ongoing sin
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the new format is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines; this concoction, however 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.
The continually widening circle of Dennis's sins is indicated by the following recently discovered palindromes ...
(Ed. note): Verses of this type have continued to proliferate, and the total now is approaching 60. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. Or, if you want to stay on this daily blog, you can enter 'Palinku' on the search line in the browser and find individual verses of this type published here over the last year.
May 16, 2022
MAY 16, planet-saving verse: species loss
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May 15, 2022
MAY 15, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): massacre at Mother Emanuel Church
You can review our entire poetic outpouring on this important topic by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
May 14, 2022
MAY 14, waterfowl: action-photos from Swan Lake / Iris Gardens
mute swan, egg-laden, lumbering |
whooper swan, in a flap |
navigating the ponds |
black swan, takeoff plan canceled |
a posterior flap |
a frontal flap |
black swans in flight |
swans, like this nesting mute couple, spend a lot of time preening themselves |
May 13, 2022
MAY 13, funny bones: contortionists
May 12, 2022
MAY 12, limerick for lovers of classic languages: Homo latinophonius
May 11, 2022
MAY 11, variant Nantucket limerick: the Canadian expat
May 10, 2022
MAY 10, a brief saga (word-pairs): echoic binomials
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and enjoy the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !