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.
November 26, 2023
November 25, 2023
NOV 25, Submitted Palindromes: H, targeted at "LISA BONET ATE NO BASIL."
November 24, 2023
NOV 24r, waterfowl: great egrets
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 24, waterfowl: great egrets
great egret, stalking slowly |
great egret, striking |
takeoff from railing, Shem Creek Park, Mt Pleasant SC |
November 23, 2023
NOV 23, Canadiana: crept and leaped
November 22, 2023
NOV 22r-, birdlore: desnooded
reprise from November 2020
NOV 21, birdlore: turkeys, desnooded (pre-holiday fling)
November 21, 2023
NOV 21, ambulatory verse: reverse
The author, an old palindromist, finds it appropriate to mention in the context of 'doing a 180', a few palindromic phrases using the verb reverse. These include:
November 20, 2023
NOV 20, singable satire for Thanksgiving: another pair-ody -- "TURKEY LEFTOVERS"
PASTICHE with PARODY LYRICS subbed into TWO WELL-KNOWN SEASONAL SONGS, another pairody.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "Turkey Leftovers" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
TURKEY LEFTOVERS
(to the tune of The Christmas Song - "Chestnuts Roasting")
Essay featured in Economist,
Turkeys' origins disclosed -
Centerpiece of each year's Yuletide feast,
Subspecies bred in Mexico.
Dolts like me believed that gobblers and that Mid-East land -
Names were mere coincidence.
Ottomans, trading ships, caravans -
I understand, it now makes sense.
Each year I prove I'm such a goof,
I try create too late a spiffy Christmas spoof,
But with a month's delay I'll get it right
Helped by this article about "Turkey's Flight".
And so I'm offering this paraphrase
Of what the author claimed was true,
French - d'inde, and the Turks call them "hindi" - what jerks!
While in India, name in Hindi,
And in Portugal's "peru".
To the tune of "Good King Wenceslas")
Montezuma once bred fowl tastier than pheasant;
Shipped the Spanish queen a thou - funky kind of present.
Isabella loathed the birds, trimmings too displeased her;
No use for leftovers, she didn't have a free-eezer.
'Turkeys', Moors, then Jews were banned from the royal kitchens;
Legend says that's how began Spanish Inquisition -
Cortes later sacked the lands of the Aztec ruler.
Phil or Izz-and-Ferdinand ? Can't say which was cru-ueller.
Avian émigrés toured through, crowns of Europe hosting,
Though few of their lackeys knew oven-time for roasting.
Hot or cold and steep or flat, exiled birds were living,
Prospered in those countries that didn't have Thanksgi-iving.
Thus this misnamed flock did cope through the 16th century,
'ventually hens copped some hope with the English gentry.
For some time they settled down, breeding they found boring,
Westward they shipped out again, restlessly explo-oring.
Turkeys in America, native home recovered,
Quirky and hysterical history discovered -
Essay we would clearly rank best of the Econ'mist,
Author we should dearly thank-(s)he remains anon-ymous.
November 19, 2023
November 18, 2023
NOV 18r-, portraits of couples: broad-headed skinks, llamas
reprise from November 2020
November 17, 2023
NOV 17, palinku (poetic novelty): global warming
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.
You can readily 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.)
November 16, 2023
NOV 16r, sleek Greek prefixes: DIA- or DI-
a) reprise from November 2020
November 15, 2023
NOV 15, 2023: patients and their maladies: horseshoe kidney
Be sure to check out the multiple collections of verses on 'Patients and their Maladies" by proceeding to our full-service blog ,"Edifying Nonsense." CLICK HERE !
November 14, 2023
NOV 14r, pandemic poetry: social distancing
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 14, pandemic poetry: social distancing
November 13, 2023
NOV 13, terminal (poetic) exclamation: KERPLUNK!
November 12, 2023
NOV 12r-, Toronto ravines: art installations
reprise from November 2020
November 11, 2023
NOV 11, poetic non-sequitur: hoggishly
The collections of short verses entitled "Non-Sequiturs" on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contain an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
November 10, 2023
November 9, 2023
NOV 9r, bi-lyrical limerick: 'a poet and his bros'
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 10, bi-lyrical limerick: 'a poet and his bros'
November 8, 2023
NOV 8, postal places, Canada: Goose Bay and Gander, NL
Gander, population 12,000, located on the island north of the capital of St. John's, had been founded in the 1930s as a refuelling stop for the expanding number of commercial transatlantic flights. It recently became famous as the recipient town for diverted passenger aircraft during the 9/11 debacle.
The town of Goose Bay, population 8000, now administratively known as Happy Valley - Goose Bay, is the largest settlement in the icy northern portion of the province. Founded in 1941, it was selected for its potential as a military airbase, and served that function throughout World War Two.
A terse story about "dangerous": A recent novice visitor from France, flying overnight to Toronto, sleepily noted the key towns on the plane's route-map, and wondered why "Danger" was prominently displayed near the country's east coast.