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.
February 2, 2023
FEB 2, defining opinion: hot
February 1, 2023
FEB 1, poems about parasites: geohelminths
January 30, 2023
JAN 30, cynic's singable satire: "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE"
PARODY-LYRICS
PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
("Global Roasting Can Be Set Aside")
(to the tune of "The Christmas Song")
Al Gore former U.S. Vice-President |
Planet’s roasting can be set aside.
...Armchair experts doubt, outliers like some melting floes
Help predict our global fate.
Tiny dots graphing century lows-
Warm some years, but it’s not too late.
January 29, 2023
JAN 29, poetic non-sequitur: professor and madman
January 28, 2023
JAN 28, lexicon of word-pairs: alliterative binomials A to D
Matching the selection on the first slide, these include "ants in pants", "birds and bees" and "betwixt and between".
Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "cool and calm", and "down and dirty".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
January 27, 2023
JAN 27, national and multinational verse: Iceland
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.
January 26, 2023
JAN 26, poems about parasites: the parasitologist (host)
January 25, 2023
JAN 25, Submitted Palindromes: Introduction to presenters -- Don's Ho
This post initiates a new thread on this blog consistent with its mission as a creative dog's-breakfast ... Presumably inspired by some of our earlier writings involving palindromic phrases, (see examples below), a number of persons communicated with the editors and volunteered to periodically send us some of their best work. We know very little of these entities/persons, who are only identified to us by their pseudonyms, but have now on hand sufficient material that we can characterize theses submitters' interests and predilections. We recently asked them to provide their take on some of the classic palindromic phrase, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned", and we will publish those in the future as well.
January 24, 2023
JAN 24, bi-lyrical limerick: 'aphonic'
January 23, 2023
JAN 23, braincheck: homonomous hemianop(s)ia
January 22, 2023
JAN 22, poets' corner: noun-verb contractions
Authors' Note: In the above limerick verse, seven noun-verb contractions, each characteristically joining its two elements (a pronoun or noun, and a verb) with an apostrophe, are italicized in blue. But, don't be misled: other types of contractions also use the apostrophe, and these are flagged in red font. Aren't is of course a negative contraction, and one's is a possessive form.
You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner". Click HERE.
January 21, 2023
JAN 21, creative anachronism: the dawning of history
January 20, 2023
JAN 20, singable satire: The Four Lads sing "THUNDER BAY" (Ontario)
PARODY LYRICS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
(Intro theme, mid-Eastern, on kazoo)
Now it's Thunder Bay, not Willi-am and Arthur
It's a [E7]wondrous town with name that's far superior --
Like [Am]Turkish delight, [Dm]on a [E7]stormy [Am]night.
Every [Am]dame today, 'round Lakehead way,
Stays in Thunder Bay, not with William or with Arthur
You've a [E7]rainy date in Fort William or Port Arthur?
She'll be [Am]waiting in [E7]Thunder [Am]Bay.
Even [Am]old Newfoundland hooked up with Labrador.
So, [Am]take me back: Fort William and Port Arthur
No, you can't go back in time, it's so much farther;
Been a [E7]long while past, since Willi-am and Arthur.
[E7] It's no one's business but Ca-[Am]nucks.
January 19, 2023
JAN 19, defining opinion: hose
January 18, 2023
JAN 18, reptiles: anoles going green
January 17, 2023
JAN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): family life
In this post, we will continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, 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.
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes'); click HERE.
January 16, 2023
JAN 16, classic palindromes, 'no left felon'
You can review a collection of such illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
January 15, 2023
JAN 15, binomial phrases: "poop and scoop"
See also the author's poem "dog park".
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 !
January 14, 2023
JAN 14, curtained verse: octogenarian sex
EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post!
You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verses: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
January 13, 2023
JAN 13, duplication: fuddy-duddy
January 12, 2023
JAN 12, Carolina lowcountry: photo-study of the Cooper River (Arthur Ravenel) bridge
This photogenic bridge, a part of US highway 17, links the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, with the suburban town of Mt. Pleasant across the Cooper River.
Photos were taken with the camera function on Giorgio Coniglio's i-phone 7, later upgraded to an i-phone 13. A few other pictures can be found in a pre-pandemic blogpost HERE.
t-shirt motif |
You can see this marvellous feat of engineering as rendered in fabric art by clicking HERE and HERE.
January 11, 2023
JAN 11, review of 'brief sagas' from 2022
A NOTE from the EDITORS:
As readers may have gathered, this blogsite highlights several types of light, wistful and humorous reflections on current life, chief among them being short verses using the limerick format, more or less (see the blogpost "Limerick Variations"). But on occasion, we feel the urge to continue important themes through several stanzas worth of poetic ideas. So in this post, we highlight the previous years' offerings of 'lengthier' poems of at least 15 lines or 3 stanzas. We have been publishing these at the rate of once a month on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), but as they are found mixed with shorter verses of 5 lines, i.e. standard limericks, or even 3 lines --palinku (palindromic haiku), you might have failed to notice and review them in their entirety.
This summary gives you a second chance to explore these lengthier creations that contain as many as 6 stanzas -- hardly lengthy enough to be considered a genuine saga, but we hope reflecting the authors' sagacity.
The compressed mode in which our 'sagas' are displayed may enhance your appreciation of the range of topics covered; if you prefer to enjoy the details in a larger and more readable font, you can quickly access the posts on this blog devoted uniquely to their stanza-by-stanza display (as well as notes, related photos and videos), by entering their title into the search lines provided. And from there, you can, of course, explore further to enjoy the multitude of shorter verses.
For the curious reader's convenience, we have sorted our treasury of 'brief sagas' by the year of publication on this blog. Altogether, you will find more than 40 whimsical poems, that cover about 800 lines of verse.
Click below, and enjoy!
2020
2021
2022
2023.