APR 11, waterfowl, more snowy egrets

a) Reprise of material posted on April 11 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, snowy egrets (illustrated poem)
2021: Palindrome Valley, duplicitous signpost (illustrated poem) 
2022: exotic destination, Fort Ord Nat'l Monument (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, pictures day #6 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 11, 2024): 

 recent birdie-pics

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'

APR 10 (2024), reprise + W-I-P

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

2020: wordplay, Claire's celerity (illustrated poem  - 'brief saga'))
2021: gun control, bipolar illness (illustrated poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: classic languages, Anglo-Latin and -Greek (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: hellenophilia, Dodecanese Islands, (illustrated poem - 'brief saga')

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 10, 2024): 

APR 9, Olympic sport -- hurdles, track and field

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

2020: new world palindromes, #13 (wordplay)
2021: defining opinion, housewife (poem)
2022: excursions, windy SF peninsula (photo-collage)
2023: special event, Easter parade (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 9, 2024): 

Olympic sport

track, hurdles (400 m)

APR 8, Olympic sport -- volleyball

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

2020: limerick variations, the sixth line (poem)
2021: American satire, tweetstorm (poem) 
2022: numbers and counting, octane (poem)
2023: poets' corner, rhotic-poet school (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 8, 2024): 

Olympic sport

  

volleyball

     

APR 7, Olympic sport-- long jump

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

2020: poets' corner, gender-neutral language (poem)
2021: classic palindrome, lonely Tylenol (illustrated poem) 
2022: California excursion, Point Lobos (photo-collage)
2023: binomial phrases, here and there (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 7, 2024): 

Olympic sport

track and field, long jump

  

APR 6, Olympic sport --- kayak racing

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

2020: etymology, lagoon (illustrated poem)
2021: amphibians, Giorgio's froglegs (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, more from Swan Lake (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, demolition day #5 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 6, 2024): 

Olympic sport

kayaking, singles

 

APR 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #9

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

2020: non-sequitur, close quarters (poem) 

2021: trees, Leif, the Norway maple (illustrated bilingual poem) 
2022: excursion Ca, Pinnacles National Park (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pictures demolition, day #4 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 5, 2024): 

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APR 4, Olympic sport -- sport climbing

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

2020: pandemic poetry, stay-at-home orders (illustrated poem)
2021: old world palindromes, #19 (wordplay) 
2022: California excursions, Monterey and Carmel (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pictures day #3 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 4, 2024): 

 

 Olympic sport

sport climbing

APR 3, homophonous verse: self-indulgence

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 10-12 (wordplay)
2021: waterfowl, wood ducks (illustrated poem) 
2022: birdlore (Berkeley), turkey on the roof (photo-collage)
2023: ambulatory verse, strut (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 3, 2024): 

 

You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables --  in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE. 

APR 2, Olympic sport -- weightlifting

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

2020: magic palindromes, examples #16 - 20 (wordplay)
2021: Canadiana, Sorry! (apologetic poem) 
2022: California excursions, SF Bay wildlife (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pictures day #1 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 2, 2024): 

 

 Olympic sport

weightlifting

APR 1, defining opinion: hole #2

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

2020: bottom line of medical humor, diarrhea (poem)
2021: reptiles, reptile fantasy (illustrated poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, cerebral metastases (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials, R (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 1, 2024): 

 

 

Our blogposts "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" show collections 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, and then following the links.

MAR 30, singable satire: James Taylor sings "BABY JAMES SUITE"

 

SATIRICAL (and wistful) LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Sweet Baby James",  by James Taylor. The song was presumably composed during a winter car-trip that Taylor made from Boston to North Carolina for the christening of Baby James, his nephew, and the first of a new generation in the Taylor family.   

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013 (despite its name it contains only a single song). It was added to Giorgio's original blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as his fourteenth parody-song.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Baby James Suite" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

BABY JAMES SUITE

(to the tune of "Sweet Baby James") 

A young lonely ranch-hand takes shape in James’ mind 

As he slows behind snow-ploughs, quick-naps at a Daze-Inn;

Then he steers through clear traffic, babe-nephew to christen,

And blows past green road-signs to North Carolin’.

  

While musing o’er hues in his faux-cowboy’s scarf

Far-off plays this tune which we all know as fine,

A choir, disembodied, seems mainly to laugh,

And he ponders, horse-powering across the state line

As the moon starts her upward incline.

Slow-down for road construction,

Day-dreaming beer and old flames.

Surgical blues aren’t the colors to choose -

We’re glad he must have stopped for caffeine:

Deep Greens/Blues,
fiber-art, courtesy  R.C.H.

His fans adore Sweet Baby James.

Now the Great Lakes on Monday were dreary with snow,
And so per my e-mails were D.C. and Boston;

Lord, their Dad’s prone to SAD by account of our offspring,

Most worklife behind me, a few winter months to go.

There’s an earworm that plays when I’m stuck in the sigh-way

 A sad song contrived on a drive by “JT”,

A song we’ll escape where old fogeys retire,

We’ll unsaddle that song and its two puzzling themes

When we take to our place near the sea.

So Ciao, frozen char from the Arctic

Hey there! fresh flounder and grits.

The earworm is shared by a workmate named Shaun

Who helps shake me out of my sad fits:

We’re both great fans of Sweet Baby James.

MAR 29, Carolina lowcountry: early spring in coastal Carolina

 

MAR 28, poetic non-sequitur: autophagia

Authors' Note:

 -some (SOHM, sometimes ZOHM): Greek suffix for an 

intracellular body, or organelle, e.g. chromosome or lysosome

-phagia, or -phagy: Greek suffix for eating, or consumption

lysis: term of Greek origin for destruction or disintegration

lysosome: cellular organelle adapted to the destruction of extracellular material which has been internalized

autophagosome: membranous organelle that entraps targeted intracellular components, later merging with lysosomes for degradation and recycling of these components; their role in cell defence and in disease causation is under investigation

 And, HERE's a verse about autophagia explaining use of the term to describe a rare and gruesome phenomenon. 

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.

MAR 27, special events: visit to Brookgreen Gardens, SC

The largest sculpture garden in the United States, Brookgreen Gardens  was founded in 1931; it has on display some 1500 outdoor sculptures in an incredible natural setting located at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. 

visit to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina

"The Saint James Triad", bronze sculpture 1997,
Richard McDermott Miller 

"Torse de Femme", limestone sculpture 1989,
David Klass

"Time and the Fates of Man", bronze 1939,
Paul Manship

visitor admiring Spanish moss

a quiet, floral corner

"Pegasus", granite 1954,
Laura Gardin Fraser

"Girl with Squirrel", 
Sylvia Shaw Judson

"Diana of the Chase", bronze 1922,
Anna Hyatt Huntington

Other Brookgreen Gardens statuary has been used to illustrate a number of verses and song-lyrics on this blog-site. Interested readers might want to review. ..

"Egad! No bondage!" verse, Terminal (poetic) exclamation  

"Three Bears in our Hot-Tub", parody-song lyrics 

"Leda and the Swan", verse, Mythed opportunities

"Aurora and Tithonus", verse, Mythed opportunities.

MAR 26, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC

Authors' Note: BC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of British Columbia in which the resort-municipality of Whistler, permanent population 14,000, is located. Two million tourists visit Whistler annually for winter alpine sports, and for the summer pastimes of hiking and mountain biking.

Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.

 

You can read more about the hoary marmot in another of our verses HERE.

At one swell foop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

 

MAR 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #8

 

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.