APR 18, photo-collage: this week's Carolina lowcountry wildlife

a) Reprise of material posted on April 18 in previous years ...

2020: scopes of medicine, endoscopic spectrum (poem)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: toxic vignette, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: magic canal palindrome, A man, a plan .. Paris (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 18, 2024): 

green anole, on backyard fence

Henrietta, the sociable great egret,
at Shem Creek boardwalk

"Blue-tailed skink",
 the origin of that common name is obvious here;
(juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks
 have a similar appearance)

jellyfish, recently washed ashore,
Sullivan's Island, SC

a weight-lifting skink

foraging nocturnal opossum
 captured in our porch light 

Henrietta watching kayakers

"Hop to it" (on one leg),
peculiar habit of many shorebirds

African iris
(floral break from all the fauna)

pelican flight

Editor's Note: More photos on this topic can be found on a later posting HERE.

APR 17, palinku (poetic novety): diapers

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

2020: haiku,continued, nuclear cardiology (poems)
2021: palinku, canals (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Paris, France and Ontario (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, London, UK and Ontario (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 17, 2024): 

 

APR 16, Greek philosophers: Plato

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

2020: classic palindrome, Do geese see God? (poem)
2021: portrait of couples, gembok, highly giroomed dogs (photo-shoots) 
2022: funny bones, pelvic fractures (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, winding down (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 16, 2024): 

 further edification 

web-photo
Plato (portrait bust)
sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E.

APR 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #10

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

2020: Charleston garden, Japanese yew (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, no lemon, no melon (wordplay maps) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, pluff mud (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials U (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 15, 2024): 

 r 

APR 14, ambulatory verse: lurk (ambulation lacking)

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

2020: anagram swarm, very stable genius, #5 (wordplay)
2021: Panama palindrome spoof, A man, a potato ...  (wordplay) 
2022: mythed opportunities, prophet Elijah (poem)
2023: Toronto ravines, Brickworks spring awakening (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 14, 2024): 

  You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.

APR 13, Olympic sports -- skateboarding

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

2020: geysers, second-hand geyser (poem)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: braincheck, bitemporal hemianopsia (poem)
2023: patients and maladies, aldosterone excess (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 13, 2024): 

Olympic sport

skateboarding

APR 12, Olympic sport -- unspecified

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

2020: patients and maladies, the common cold (poem)
2021: funny bones, fractured wrist (illustrated poem)
2022: mammalian wildlife, resurgent sea otters (photo-collage)
2023: signs of confusion, fifth collection (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 12, 2024): 

Olympic sport

  

APR 10 (2024), W-I-P

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 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: Charleston garden, Japanese yew (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, no lemon, no melon (wordplay maps) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, pluff mud (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials U (wordplay)

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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: Charleston garden, Japanese yew (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, no lemon, no melon (wordplay maps) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, pluff mud (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials U (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 7, 2024): 

bOlympic 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 Giorgio's froglegs (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, more freom 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): 

 You can access more 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. 

APR 4r, pandemic poetry: stay-at-home orders

 

a) reprise from April, 2020

APR 4, pandemic poetry: 'stay-at-home'

Thank goodness this is over. You can review these illustrated verses,  and this unpleasant era in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pandemic Poetry' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".

 Canadian commuter-train take on this issue

 

b) Olympic sport, 2024

sport climing

APR 3, homophonous verse: self-indulgence

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 2r, magical palindromes: examples #16 - #20

 

a) reprise from April, 2020

APR 2, magical palindromes: examples #16 to #20

 

You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE; then, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.

b) Olympic sport, 2024 

weightlifting

APR 1, defining opinion: hole #2

 

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