You can review our entire collection of illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. (Or, if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums).
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.
October 9, 2022
OCT 9, waterfowl: black skimmers
You can review our entire collection of illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. (Or, if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums).
October 8, 2022
OCT 8, poets' corner: editorial balking
October 7, 2022
OCT 7, American satire (prolongation): 'a meticulous archivist'
Author's Note: Some readers may wish that the fifth line's 'BLOCKhead' could be replaced by another assonance-laden word, targeted at the second line's melodic term 'riDICulous'.
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!
October 6, 2022
OCT 6, duplication: helter-skelter
Authors' Note: This (re)duplication has elements of impulsiveness, thoughtlessness and randomness in common with harum-scarum, pell-mell and hodge-podge.
October 5, 2022
OCT 5, inspired by Ogden Nash: 'a sloth in a slough'
October 4, 2022
OCT 4, variant Nantucket limerick: the lad from Salinas
Authors' Note: The Sankaty Head Light is a famous lighthouse on the US island of Nantucket. It also serves as the pictorial symbol for OEDILF, the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form.
You can review our entire collection of spoof verses based on the iconic Nantucket limericks on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense' by clicking HERE.
October 3, 2022
OCT 3, bar-fauna: Gary the gator
October 2, 2022
OCT 2, Italian loanwords: ciao
Authors' Note: You can probably figure out how to pronounce the word 'ciao' if you already know how to say ...
October 1, 2022
OCT 1, more snowy egret pics: photo-collage
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'
OCT 17, defining opinion: holler
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
September 30, 2022
SEP 30, singable satire : Rick Steves sings "POSTCARD TO CHUBBY CHECKER" (travel to Limbo)
The name "Limbo" conjures up an intriguing mixture of Caribbean dancing and Dante's Inferno. In another posting here, part of the Inferno sequence, Dante provides us with on-site reporting which seems to eliminate it from serious consideration as a longterm retirement home. Perhaps it is more realistic to consider it an untapped tourist destination.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "POSTCARD to CHUBBY CHECKER" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
September 29, 2022
SEP 29, STD-poetry: monkeypox
September 28, 2022
SEP 28, spineless verse (invertebrates): chelipods
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.
September 27, 2022
SEP 27, defining opinion: diaphoretic
September 26, 2022
SEP 26, organic brain poetry: CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
This is consecutive daily post #1000 on this blog!!!
ROSH HASHANAH: To Jewish friends, L' shanah tovah!
Authors' Note: Although military recruits and physically abused spouses also number among the victims of this disease of insidious onset, (characteristically diagnosed with certainty only at post-mortem examination), it is the scourge of those who earlier in life indulged in contact sports, particularly those with a risk of repetitive minor brain trauma.
September 25, 2022
SEP 25, classic palindrome: 'step on no pets'
September 24, 2022
SEP 24, toxic vignette: antifreeze (ethylene glycol) poisoning
September 23, 2022
SEP 23, news-post: Fore! (Letitia's civil lawsuit)
FORE! (Letitia's Civil Lawsuit)
Strode the fairway to even the score.
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Author's Note: The golfing terms fore!, and fairway are explained in other OEDILF verses.
In September 2022, Letitia James, Attorney General of the state of New York initiated a civil lawsuit against the Trump Corporation and its executives (the former 45th American president and three of his children) for longstanding business malfeasance including bank, insurance and tax fraud.
September 22, 2022
SEP 22, braincheck: hippocampus
September 21, 2022
SEP 21, higher connections: views from Queen Elizabeth's funeral
September 20, 2022
SEP 20, singable satire: Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "The BALLAD of GIULIANI", part #1
Tennessee Ernie Ford
BACKGROUND INFO: Max Boot's opinion-editorial appeared in our local newspaper on May 8, 2018, under the heading "The long, disappointing fall of Rudy Giuliani". Here is the link to the particular newspaper column.
Other takes on Giuliani's statements about the Presidents' legal and personal imbroglios are given by Jennifer Rubin HERE, and Amy Sorkin HERE. However, this first part of the song deals with the more positive earlier portion of this flamboyant leaders' life-story.
The BALLAD of GIULIANI, part#1
Born in East Flatbush, down in NYC,
Dad done time in Sing Sing for robbery,
An' Rudy volunteered for Robert Kennedy.
Rudy Giuliani,
Voice of those wild Trump Years!
At Manhattan College, took philosophy.
Enter the priesthood? "No, that's not for me!"
Studied Law at New York University,
To graduate cum laude with J.D. degree.
Rudy Giuliani,
Startin' up his career.
To prosecute felons gave him a thrill.
Though tactics like the 'perp walk' were 'overkill'
As U.S. Attorney he showed great skill.
His record of convictions is unequalled still.
Rudy Giuliani,
Outshone his legal peers.
He fought single-handed through the Mafia Wars.
Racketeering mobsters he did abhor.
Put their capos behind bars, and settled the score,
And RICOed* inside traders, and convicted more.
Fearless Rudy launchin'
His politickin' career.
Two terms as Mayor start in '93.
First Repub. in office there since John Lindsay.
Libs felt queezy with the GOP, but he
Cleaned the streets, cut crime, and folks said "That's for me!"
Rudy Giuliani,
The Big Apple's brigadier.
He craved a Senate seat; to lose was gall.
'Specially to Hillary, he'd hate to fall.
But marital scandal, and a doctor's call,
And bad race relations triggered his withdrawal.
Rudy Giuliani,
Back in the Mayor's chair.
Rudy was the guy in charge when Towers fell.
At Ground Zero visited and stayed a spell.
Folks felt he handled the disaster well,
And was honored by the Queen as I've heard tell.
Rudy Giuliani!
Time's Person-of-the-Year.
Rudy Giuliani!
Time's Person-of-the-Year.
* RICO - The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.