The next day, we took our foray a bit earlier in the afternoon. The weather was clearer and considerably colder, but the late afternoon light had a golden hue....
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| a pair of bottlenose dolphins hunts in synchrony |
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| a lone cormorant flies low above the creek's surface |
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| a goofy-looking penguin preens itself |
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| a more formal pose |
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| at the ibis hotel |
"Crepuscular" is defined in our poem HERE.
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| snowy egret |
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| black-crowned night heron |
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| white ibises in pondside shrubbery |
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| white ibises finding a resting perch in the trees |
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| further dimming of the light |
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| ominous appearing cormorants |
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| Is this a good place to spend the night? |
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| wings of man |
Be sure to check out the sequel to this foray, to be published tomorrow.
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.
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| John Ward, "The Northern Whale Fishery", 1840 |
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| Edouard Manet, "The Old Musician", 1862 |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Pont-neuf, Paris", 1872 |
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| Alfred Sisley, "The Meadow", 1875 |
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| Gustave Caillebotte, "Skiffs", 1877 |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou", 1879 |
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| Mary Cassatt, "The Loge", 1879 |
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| Georges Seurat, "The Lighthouse at Honfleur", 1886 |
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| Mary Cassatt, "The Boating Party", 1893 |
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| Camille Pissarro, "The Louvre - afternoon, rainy weather", 1902 |
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| Mary Cassatt, "Woman with a Sunflower", 1905 |
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| snowy Washington street on the morning of departure |
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| high tea at a DC hotel prior to the Gallery visit |
a) reprise from January 2020
b) recent birdie-pic
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| bluebird |
Authors' Note: The gregarious house finch, Haemorhous mexicanus, originally an inhabitant of the western US and Mexico, was introduced into Long Island, New York, in 1940. Although the female is not showy, the male is distinguished by the rosy red coloration of its face, neck and upper breast areas. The species quickly spread across the eastern US and southern parts of Canada. A strict vegetarian, this bird is now the most common visitor to feeders in many parts of its current range.
For more titillating pics of the house finch at our feeder, click HERE.
You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post "Poems about BIRDLORE" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
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!
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2021
2022
2023.
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| a flap at the Ibis Hotel |
a) reprise from January 2020
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| goldfinch |
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| goldfinch |
