HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JMH!!!
a) reprise from February 2020
FEB 4, trees: Muir Woods
b) current birdie-pic
Carolina chickadee |
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.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JMH!!!
b) current birdie-pic
Carolina chickadee |
IN CELEBRATION OF A PALINDROMIC DAY -- 02/02/2020
(With many thanks to my good friend, Eric K., for his reminder about this important occasion.)
You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison, and recorded by the Beatles for their 1968 album "The Beatles".George Harrison |
a) reprise from January 2020
JAN 29, magical palindromes: introductory poem and examples #1 to #5
bluebird repeatedly trying to fly through the dining-room window |
a) reprise from January 2020
a) reprise from January 2020
Learn more about these limerick variations as described by their "inventors" and perpetrators HERE !
Readers can find a collection of even more of these variant verses by clicking HERE !
Authors' Note: Our protagonist, presumably a Canadian snowbird, can take little comfort in the higher values of Fahrenheit than Celsius temperatures in the reasonably livable range. The temperature is what it is; only the describing numbers differ, although they are precisely related as defined in PGS's conversion. And below -40 degrees, Celsius is higher (but not warmer) than Fahrenheit.
The above verse was written on a brisk January morning when the temperature in degrees was -12C (10F) in Toronto, -10C (14F) in Atlanta, and 11C (52F) in Miami.You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as it evolves on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE.
Birds along the south Atlantic coast of the US, like this goldfinch, don't seem to mind. Perhaps they know that it's going to warm up shortly! (At 10:30, it's already up to 31F!)
goldfinch |
Incidental additional poetry:
Robert Burns |
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....
a pair of bottlenose dolphins hunts in synchrony |
a lone cormorant flies low above the creek's surface |
a goofy-looking penguin preens itself |
a more formal pose |
at the ibis hotel |
"Crepuscular" is defined in our poem HERE.
snowy egret |
black-crowned night heron |
white ibises in pondside shrubbery |
white ibises finding a resting perch in the trees |
further dimming of the light |
ominous appearing cormorants |
Is this a good place to spend the night? |
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.