MAR 7, palinku (poetic novelty): W-I-P + extras

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

2020: anagram swarm, very stable genius, #2 (worplay)
2021: amphibians, southern toad (illustrated poem) 

2022: classic language lovers, Constantopolis (illustrated poem)
2023: urban concerns, in the distance (illustrated poem)

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 b) Today's Offering - Mar 7

You can view informative verses like this one in a wider context by proceeding to the collection "Pill-Popping Poems (selected pharmaceuticals)" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE! 

Also, please check out the Lancet's concurrent study on the acute use of antimalarial drugs as published online  at  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext
Or, check this link to the story in the Washington Post.

b) current birdie-pic

northern cardinal

 

NOV 2, lexicon of word-pairs: legal doublets A to C

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

2020: American satire, political anagrams (illustrated poem)
2021: exotic destination, Swiss Alps (illustrated poem) 

2022: gun control verses, semi-automatic weapons (illustrated poem)
2023: exemplification, fauna (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 22, 2024): 

Giorgio's lexicon of binomials (legal doublets)

 

MAR 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #6

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

2020: new world palindromes, #9 (wordplay)
2021: patients and maladies, male infertility (illustrated poem) 

2022: Ontario nostalgia, Yonge Street (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, prairie home (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 22, 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. 

MAR 4, Carolina lowcountry: rainy day rural chamber concert

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 4 in previous years ...

2020: magic palindromes, examples #11 to #15 (wordplay)
2021: anagram swarm, REPUBLICAN VOTERS (wordplay maps) 

2022: doctors and practices, lifelong learning (ED) (illustrated poem)
2023: magic canal palindrome, Pisa (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 4, 2024): 

rainy-day excursion

trip to a charming rural church for a chamber-music concert

MAR 3, incidental photo: "boy and bird", Carolina lowcountry

a) Reprise of material posted on March 3 in previous years ...

2020: magic palindromes, examples #11 to #15 (wordplay)
2021: anagram swarm, REPUBLICAN VOTERS (wordplay maps) 

2022: doctors and practices, lifelong learning (ED) (illustrated poem)
2023: magic canal palindrome, Pisa (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 3, 2024): 

 

 incidental photo (misc)

 

"Boy and Bird"

MAR 2, waterfowl: flap at the Ibis Hotel

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 2 in previous years ...

2020: exotic destination, Labelle, Florida (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, Republicans-In-Canada, r-i-c 15 (wordplay maps) 

2022: birdlore, turkey in our subdivision (photo-op)
2023: duplication, holus-bolus (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 2, 2024): 

current birdie-pic

a flap at the Ibis Hotel

MAR 1, mammalian wildlife: California sea lions

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 1 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 1 (wordplay)
2021: non-sequitur, doggy-bag (poem) 

2022: patients and maladies, dyspareunia (poem)
2023: Ontario nostalgia, across the Great Lakes (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 1, 2024): 

 Ed. Note: This poem had initially been concocted with an upcoming trip to California in mind.

Authors' Note:  The California sea lion, Zalophus californianus, native of the west coast of North America, has increased in population considerably in recent years.  The marine mammal is sexually dimorphic, with males larger in size and having more commanding vocal abilities than the females. Both genders are larger and more socially active than the true 'earless' seals, which can move on land only by scooting on their bellies.

   Sea lions are highly intelligent, and positioning their front flippers, they can support themselves in a 'four-legged' walk; their ability to learn and perform tricks has given them a role as the (misnamed) 'circus seal'.

Follow-up note: As is often the case, e.g. with bears or raccoons, feeding wild animals can result in untoward behaviour. On our subsequent two-week visit to California in early April 2022, we saw no such disreputable behavior by sea lions (but it must be admitted that we saw no sea lions, although we certainly heard them barking, particularly around the piers at Monterey). 

You can review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

any other date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, and select (by clicking) the month of your choice from 2020 or 2021. 

FEB 29b, singable satire: homage to Ed Burtynsky "VIEW OF EARTH"

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 29b/28c in previous years ...

2020: pandemic verse, Kermit's prediction (illustrated poem)
2021: reptiles, fived-lined skinks (illustrated) 
2022: singable satire, Palace of Malice (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Let's Do It (guest parody lyrics)

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five-lined skink

b) Today's Offering (Feb 29b, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "The Book of Love", 1999 by Monotones; best known cover by Peter Gabriel 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013.
PHOTOS: Edward Burtynsky website

With the recent book “Water” and film “Watermark”, Edward Burtynsky (“Manufactured Landscapes”) has used aerial photography to further document extensive degradation of our planet’s water-resource. As Burtynsky brings a Canadian sensitivity to the issue, I have used a few French words in these lyrics. eaux, water (pl) and haut, high, are pronounced as ‘oh’. autrui, others, and  ouïe, ouch!  rhyme with ‘see’.

VIEW OF EARTH  

(to the tune of "The Book of Love")

To view our Earth is disconcerting;

Dammed place may land up dry as bones;

With overuse and exponential

Expansion of industrial zones.

But,  eyes high I spy ......
Icefloes’ demise from polar seas;

And eaux-----oh those emotive

Haut-photos of Burty-ynsky’s!

Ice-caps dislodging, likely toasted;

Will flood the coastlines, raise the seas;

Less rain on heights, our food-stores threatened; 

Our stewardship’s a travesty.

Water-woes….. we owe to no one

Only ourselves, not autrui;
Ouïe! unwilling eyes we open

Edward’s lament-landscapes we see.

Parched Colorado River delta

Flow diverted – raise some herds –

Fish and amphibians find no shelter; 

Plundered profits, pain deferred.

Manufactured western suburbs,

Life floats on dwindling aquifers;

Next door the ancient ghostly remnants

Of cultures faltered, disappeared.

And drought------ no doubt about it

We’re drifting to that turn of things.

What clout .....   to save our offspring ?

 - Cherish each drop that wetting wrings.

Our leaders opt for obfuscation
A short-term outlook is obscene-

A final geologic  e - ra;

Warm welcome to Anthropocene !

And whoa! ….... those emotive

Views captured by Burty-ynsky!
Decry .…..... and why not try

Avoid our man-made destiny ?

(Rit.)
 The news from Earth is disconcerting………….

FEB 29, photo-collage: views from the Carolina lowcountry

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 29/28b in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, unusual wildlife (photo-collage)
2021: gun control verse, the hitman (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, moonshine whiskey (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, grift (poem)

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Giorgio (on the left) with
Pete the Plastic Pelican
in the Carolina lowcountry

b) Today's Offering (Feb 29, 2024): 

boardwalk at Shem Creek, Mt. Pleasant SC

Carolina anole, napping in our backyard

longleaf pine, re-establishing itself
on an old rice plantation

Carnival cruise

political perturbation

allee of moss-covered live oak trees,
 lining an old road at a rice plantation

pelican, skimming surface of the creek

a small boat tries to imitate the pelican

                                                  

 

FEB 28, OEDILFian limericks: W-I-P

   a) Reprise of material posted on February 28 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, disingenuous Don (poem)
2021: classic palindromes, Gnu dung. (illustrated poem) 
2022: Canadiana, snow-biota (illustrated poem)
2023: urban concerns, elevator reluctance (illustrated poem)

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a wildebeest (gnu)
photo:  B. Weinstock

b) Today's Offering (Feb 28, 2024): pending

FEB 27, defining opinion: honk

  a) Reprise of material posted on February 27 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 1 (wordplay maps)
2021: at heart, left ventricular ejection fraction (poem) 
2022: bar-fauna, medical watering-hole (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, T. Eliot's toilet. (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Feb 27, 2024): 

Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.