JAN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): politics

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 17 in previous years ...

2020: nuclear cardiology haiku, Seventeen Haiku Verses (traditional haiku' poems)
2021: palinku, partying 3 (poetic novelty) 

2022: palinku, puzzling and magic palindromes (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, family life (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 17, 2024): 

  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.)

Also, if you enjoy the concept of political palindromes, you can review how they are constructed, and see a slew of examples, by undertaking an adventure-journey of bidirectional blogposts entitled 'Political Palindromes'. Click HERE to start. 

JAN 16, photo-collage: visit to Washington's National Gallery of Art

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 16 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, borscht (poem)
2021: anagram swarm, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, runners-up (wordplay maps) 
2022: death and afterlife, giving up the ghost (poem)
2023: classic palindromes, No left felon. (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 16, 2024): 

John Ward, "The Northern Whale Fishery", 1840 

Edouard Manet, "The Old Musician", 1862 

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Pont-neuf, Paris", 1872

Alfred Sisley, "The Meadow", 1875 

Gustave Caillebotte, "Skiffs", 1877

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou", 1879

Mary Cassatt, "The Loge", 1879

Georges Seurat, "The Lighthouse at Honfleur", 1886

Mary Cassatt, "The Boating Party", 1893

Camille Pissarro,
"The Louvre - afternoon, rainy weather", 1902 

Mary Cassatt, "Woman with a Sunflower", 1905

snowy Washington street
on the morning of departure

high tea at a DC hotel
 prior to the Gallery visit

 Editors' Note: You can view illustrated verses about some of the artists by clicking HERE.  

                                                           

JAN 15, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILE #1

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 15 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindromes, critique of palindromes (illustrated poem)
2021: culinary verse, Cretan salad (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, juvenile night herons (illustrated poem)
2023: binomial phrases, poop and scoop (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 15, 2024): 

    On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

JAN 14r, anagram swarm: C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L, a reprise

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 14 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, grating (revised nursery rhyme)
2021: doctors and practices, endocrinologist (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, lethal drugs of abuse (poem)
2023: curtained verse, octogenarian sex (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 14, 2024): 

NEWS UPDATE !!!:  In the Senate trials of impeached American President Donald Trump, constitutional issues have taken precedence. Senators from many locales across the United States bring their specific viewpoints on the interpretation of this document to the debate. Some of these locales are shown on the map below.

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!

b) recent birdie-pic

bluebird

JAN 13, poetic non-sequitur: bush plane

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 13 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, oyster clusters (illustrated poem)
2021: Greek prefixes, ecto- (poem) 
2022: limericks for classics lovers, yukky Roman foods (poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, Cooper River Bridge (photo study)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 13, 2024): 

Our collection of "Non-Sequiturs" on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains 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.

JAN 12, portraits of couples: wild turkeys

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 12 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, Cooper River vistas (photo-collage)
2021: portraits of couples, introduction, domestic turkeys (photo folio)
2022: portraits of couples, pigeons (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, horses (photo folio)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 12, 2024): 

 You can view these samples from our portfolio of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

(Enjoy an illustrated poem about domestic turkeys by clicking HERE.)

JAN 11, review of 'brief sagas' from 2023

 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 five lines, i.e. standard limericks, or even three 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 that they reflect 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.

a flap at the Ibis Hotel

JAN 10, singable satire, Toronto's mayoral procession: "SUBURBS' GUY"

  a) Reprise of material posted on January 10 in previous years ...

2020: exotic destinations, Chemainus, BC (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: Italian loanwords, Italian treats (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: pill-poppin' poems, drug development (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: pandemic poetry, squid in the time of COVID  (poem - 'brief saga')

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 10, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" , Hank Williams

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013. Click HERE to see a photo of the song being performed at a ukulele jam.

Sunday Radio Show, in progress

SUBURBS' GUY

(to the tune of "Jambalaya")

Yo T.O! radio show! - it’s your Mayor.
I’m on air with Councillor-frère and some taxpayers,
Pitching woo to voters who live near the ‘9-0-’,
Itch to stretch pet subway ditch out to Scarborough.

Fairly large, fun bein’ in charge, no burden heavy;
While I’m munching, number-crunchers hunt out ‘Gravy’;
Cancel fees, tax-rate freeze, void ‘Commie’ ‘s surplus,
Small ‘c’ - conserve, big ‘C’ – condemn essential service.

Drill end-runs, petty funds, coach team-students;
Ref-provincial thinks ethical imprudence.
Parents miffed, poor kids dissed, sidelined Mayor,
Nearly burned – overturned!! (coach on waivers)

Yo T.O ! back on board, Ford Nation's Mayor,
Still on air with Dougie there and fake taxpayers;
Ombudsman’s ‘Nay’ ? – friends’ job-favors my nature,
Threat’n her post, thumb my nose at Legislature.

Comic Walsh caused a splash with TV crew,
Invade 'Burbs, parked by curb, attack-interview;
9-1-1, hoped fuzz come and gonn’ snatch her,
Speech bit slurred, hurled f-word at dispatcher.

Public-stoned, driving-phoned, don’t want chauffeur,
Fracas with a bad-ass streetcar operator.
Retinue, there’s a few drug-scene players,
They’re indebted, ref’rence letters: Office - Mayor’s.

Star, Post, Globe spy and probe – Canadian capers,
‘Let them sue me’ – I’m abused by nati’nal Papers;
Just deny damning DUI in Miami -oh
Pressing prob’ - probably some slob shot a video.

But…… Hello Folks, mellow with tokes or martini,
Nay-sayers can’t so easily outsmart me –
Gawker outbid, world got rid of what’s hid -eeoh
Bright son-of-a-gun might’ve connived to buy the video.

Suburbs’ Guy, stuffed with pie, shirt-size jumbo,
Bigger-’n-life, spare no strife, mode crafty-dumb -oh
Sometimes high out o’ camera’s eye, sitting pretty -oh
Might’ve connived and tried t’ hide that crack-pipe video
Someone my size likely devised t’ buy that video.

JAN 9, birdfeeder action-photos: tufted titmouse

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 9 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, Loutrel Briggs, designer (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, national winner (wordplay) 
2022: curtained verse, come and go (poem)
2023: mythed opportunities, Cronus (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 9, 2024):

tufted titmouse

JAN 8, OEDILFian limericks: W-I-P

a) Reprise of material posted on January 8 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, winter afternoon walk (photo-collage) 

2021: old world palindromes, #7 (wordplay maps)
2022: doctors and practices, waiting room journal (illustrated poem)
2023: mammalian wildlife, hoary marmots (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 8, 2024): pending

JAN 7, palinku (poetic novelty): W-I-P

a) Reprise of material posted on January 7 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 1 (wordplay maps) 

2021: anagram swarm, iIMPEACHMENT, again (wordplay maps)
2022: numbers and counting, seven (illustrated poem)
2023: objectionable adjectives, floccular vs. flaky (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 7, 2024): pending

JAN 6, birdfeeder action-photos: male housefinch

a) Reprise of material posted on January 6 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, Vladimir's hope (poem) 

2021: classic palnidrome, UFO tofu. (illustrated poem)
2022: American satire, The Legacy (free verse)
2023: Canadiana, overwintering waterfowl (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 6, 2024): 

house finch (male)

JAN 5, Submitted Palindromes: K, targeted at "TIP-TOP POT PIT"

a) Reprise of material posted on January 5 in previous years ...

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 2-3 (wordplay maps) 

2021: amphibians, anurans, frogs vs. toads (illustrated poem)
2022: life in Palindrome Valley, local cuisine (illustrated poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, preamble (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 5, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s). 

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.