You can take advantage of the whole spectrum of illustrated poems dealing with 'Mythed Opportunities' that we have collected on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
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 25, 2022
JUL 25, mythed opportunities: Aurora and Tithonus (eternally)
July 24, 2022
JUL 24, Italian loanwords: fiasco
July 23, 2022
JUL 23, toxic vignette: gadolinium contrast agents for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
July 22, 2022
JUL 22, at heart: the arteriopath
July 21, 2022
JUL 21, anagram swarms: bilateral North American scheme (Canada's turn)
July 20, 2022
JUL 20, singable satire: James Taylor sings "NESSUN DORMA"
inspired by the author attending a James Taylor concert at the North Charleston Coliseum, May 15, 2018.
ORIGINAL SONG#2(lyrics): "Nessun Dorma", aria from the 3rd act of "Turandot" composed by Giacomo Puccini, first performed after his death in 1926. Translation of the libretto can be found on the Wikipedia link.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015, updated 2018.
(to the tune of "Mexico")
Way up here, opera season’s in gear
July 19, 2022
JUL 19, organic brain poetry: early-onset Alzheimer's
Authors' Note: Recent reports point out the devastating effects of an early onset of Alzheimer's dementia. Fortunately, this variant, manifesting at an earlier than usual age, is relatively uncommon, but isn't it time that we discovered the cause and treatment for this tragic disorder?
July 18, 2022
JUL 18, funny bones: heterotopic ossification (HO)
You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
July 17, 2022
JUL 17, palinku (poetic novety): invective
You can view all our verses of this type 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.)
July 16, 2022
JUL 16, braincheck: visual cortex
July 15, 2022
JUL 15, death and the afterlife: homes in heaven
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
July 14, 2022
JUL 14, national and multinational verse: la Francophonie
You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
July 13, 2022
JUL 13, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy
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!
July 12, 2022
JUL 12, duplication: hobos
July 11, 2022
July 10, 2022
JUL 10, a brief saga (singular plurals): careers
Authors' Note: Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year.
Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and there are now over 40 of these multi-verse poems featured in his 'Author's Showcase'. The OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. We have been blog-publishing these poetic adventures here monthly.
To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (August 2022), proceed to 'Mar-a-Lago' (dacha).To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (June 2022), back up to 'Canada'.
July 9, 2022
JUL 9, doctors and their practices: lithotripsy specialist
Authors' Note: 'dais' may apparently be pronounced DYE-uhs or DAY-uhs, although the authors had been familiar with only the former pronunciation.
July 8, 2022
JUL 8, poets' corner: 'Held'
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 |