takeoff from Billy Bishop Airport |
Lishman's sculptures at sunset (see also the post of March 21) |
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.
takeoff from Billy Bishop Airport |
Lishman's sculptures at sunset (see also the post of March 21) |
Virgil and Dante "The Onlookers" A-W Bouguereau |
"The Thinker" from "The Gates of Hell" by Rodin may represent Dante |
Giorgio's Lexicon of Word-Pairs (rhyming binomials)
Matching the selection on the first slide, these include "haste makes waste", "by hook or by crook", "healthy and wealthy", "high and dry", and "hot to trot".
Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "itch and scratch".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the "palinku" is a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its earlier English-language forerunners, 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 (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. Readers will note that we have been publishing verses of this type on the 17th of each month.
vestibule (office on L, coat closet on R) |
office |
breakfast nook |
den |
LR |
studio |
A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all:
And some personal reminiscences ...
HERE is an example that we have published, involving the synonymous expression shilly-shally.