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.
December 15, 2021
DEC 15, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto's Distillery District
December 14, 2021
DEC 14, funny bones: alignment
December 13, 2021
DEC 13, poetry of healthcare: Canadian healthcare
December 12, 2021
DEC 12, American satire: anniversary reminiscence
Authors' Note: If you were going to sing a limerick, this modified 6-line verse (a 'limerrhoid'?) would be a particularly good one to sing to the tune of Gershwin's 'Anniversary Song'. Readers are invited to check out the possibilities for singing limerick verses with a variety of tunes on a blogpost on "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
Otherwise, in verse form, we hope that you enjoyed this submission. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
December 11, 2021
DEC 11, neologism (personal): dyscoprotaxis (my favorite one)
December 10, 2021
DEC 10, a brief saga (birdlore): avian digestion
We still have a long way to go on this educational journey before reaching SheilaB's poem 'Cloaca'. Stay tuned!
December 9, 2021
DEC 9, spineless verse (invertebrates): California mussels
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.
December 8, 2021
DEC 8, American satire: corruption
December 7, 2021
DEC 7, waterfowl: great auks
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'. (Or, if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums).
December 6, 2021
DEC 6, numbers: sextet (6)
December 5, 2021
DEC 5, culinary verse: gnudi (Tuscan appetizers)
Find the collection of illustrated poems dealing with these issues on the post 'Culinary Verse' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
December 4, 2021
DEC 4, mammalian wildlife: buffalo (American bison)
December 3, 2021
DEC 3, reprehensible modern history: Turco-Italian war
December 2, 2021
DEC 2, hellenophilia: Heraklia
December 1, 2021
DEC 1, domestic hazards: gutter-cleaning
November 30, 2021
NOV 30: binomial phrases: fixed order
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and look over the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
November 29, 2021
NOV 29, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'Pan's panama hat'
You can review the whole collection of our illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Panama palindrome parodies' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
November 28, 2021
NOV 28, American satire: Arizona (AZ) 'fraudit'
November 27, 2021
NOV 27, curtained verse: complimentarily
November 26, 2021
NOV 26, death and the afterlife: heavenly pie
Authors' Note: Our partners' scrumptious apple pie is to die for, and so is the incredible strawberry pie pictured above.
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
Incidental Photo:
At a downtown department-store
(Holiday season window display)
At a downtown department-store
(Holiday season window display)