You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over sixteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic, 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.
July 7, 2022
JUL 7, trees: crepe myrtle xxxxxxxxxxxxLil
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
July 6, 2022
JUL 6, binomial phrases: "down and out"
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 !
July 5, 2022
JUL 5, insects: cryoprotection
Authors' Note: The isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella enters the cold season in wintry parts of North America in the form of a banded woolly bear caterpillar. Traditionally, her peer-group would attempt to get through the winter by altering their metabolism to manufacture compounds known as cryoprotectives, allowing them to recover from freezing. Our protagonist seems to have discovered another way around this challenge.
July 4, 2022
JUL 4, American anagram swarms: election fraud
reprise from July 4, 2021
JUL 4, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' #4
Continuing from the posts of January 16, January 18, January 20, January 22, January 24, and January 27. You might note that there are now more than 200 anagrams in this collection. Who would have guessed?
July 3, 2022
JUL 3, English literature survey course: "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (Keats' poem)
July 2, 2022
JUL 2, American satire (prolongation): 'unhinged'
We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
July 1, 2022
JUL 1, Canadiana: Canadian weather
The author contends that the summary he received overemphasized the adverse climatic conditions faced by Canadians, the majority of whom live in the more temperate southern portions of the country.
mid-November in Toronto |
June 30, 2022
JUN 30, singable satire: Stompin' Tom Connors sings "UNDER MY OWN STEAM"
PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Stompin' Tom Connors et al.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2013.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "UNDER MY OWN STEAM" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
Introduction:
Lucky Starrted with Strine, his Brit and Kiwi versions also strode,
I’ve led and followed, sped wallowed, vaulted tumbled, somersaulted,
Deserted, seldom stayed, son
June 29, 2022
JUN 29, defining opinion: crepuscular
June 28, 2022
JUN 28, domestic hazards: security system
June 27, 2022
JUN 27, pluralia tantum: 'eruptions' -- medical nomenclature
June 26, 2022
Jun 26, duplication: hanky-panky
June 25, 2022
JUN 25, patients and their maladies: vitreous detachment
June 24, 2022
June 23, 2022
JUN 23, poetic non-sequitur: judge's gavel, plus yesterday's temperature perversion
June 22, 2022
JUN 22, diagnostic imaging: AC (attenuation correction) for PET scanning
You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!
June 21, 2022
JUN 21, planet-saving verse: invasive species
June 20, 2022
JUN 20, singable satire: Neil Young sings "GET ME ROGER STONE"
Dark Schemes
Rosenstein
Brennan's Tweet
A foppish slickster, a dirty trickster,
June 19, 2022
JUN 19, binomial phrases: "flotsam and jetsam"
To review our poetic effusion about binomial phrases proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense', 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 !
June 18, 2022
JUN 18, organic brain poetry: hypothyroid depression
You can view and review all our verses on the topic of 'Organic Brain Poetry' by following this link to the encyclopedic collection on "Edifying Nonsense."
June 17, 2022
JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): evil +b
June 16, 2022
JUN 16, toxic vignette: anthracycline cardiotoxicity (monitoring left ventricular function)
June 15, 2022
JUN 15, doctors and their practices: ophthalmologist sibling xxxxxxxxxxxx Dr. JJ
at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah |
surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks |
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