You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over seventeen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), 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.
January 9, 2022
JAN 9, curtained verse: come and go
You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
January 8, 2022
JAN 8, doctors and their practices: waiting-room journal 'Stitches'
You can view additional informative verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'DOCTORS and their PRACTICES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.
January 7, 2022
January 6, 2022
JAN 6, American satire: 'The Legacy' (free verse)
January 5, 2022
JAN 5, life in Palindrome Valley: local cuisine
You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
January 4, 2022
JAN 4, garden intruders: lantana
January 3, 2022
JAN 3, poetry of healthcare: Lewis Carroll's 'the Valgus and the Carbuncle'
You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection 'Poetry of Healthcare' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE ! (or if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
January 2, 2022
JAN 2, etymology: 'dollar'
January 1, 2022
JAN 1, insects: toothpick grasshoppers
You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE ! (or if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
SUPPLEMNENTAL PHOTO: locust swarm
December 30, 2021
DEC 30, singable satire: Canadian public school reunion: "IN DAYS OF YORE"
PARODY-LYRICS
lyrics by Vladimir Radian 1997.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013, updated 2015, 2017, and 2018.
(FURTHER SONGS ON THE SAME THEME: For other nostalgic takes on Canada's national hymns, you can view (and sing along with) ...
(January 2015) Flight of the Loonie
You can also view these lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Canadian Reunion".
CANADIAN
As baby-boomers, second-gen,
More recent play: ere Y-2-K,
Ann Murray sings Maple Leaf Gardens February, 2013 |
So flourished a new pluralist "Leaf"
By songwright Vlad Radian.
Its fabled British glory tamed,
No heaven or hegemony;
Olympic Closing half-time showed,
While "O (Canada)" did Ceremonies.
Its reassembled mission clear,
A newfound "Feuille" quite clever --
Anne Murray sang, The Gardens closed:
The Maple Leafs forever.
Reprise:
* an ancient maple, that presumably had inspired
December 29, 2021
DEC 29, curtained verse: orchestral pecking-order
December 28, 2021
DEC 28, patients and their maladies: non-tumorous '-oma's,
December 27, 2021
DEC 27, binomial phrases: fossil words
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 !
December 26, 2021
DEC 26, reptiles: geckos (on ceiling)
December 25, 2021
DEC 25, personal and family history: a brief personal bio xxxxxxxxxxxxx Nate
That's my older brother in 1945 holding Dad's photo; (lower left). I wasn't quite on the scene, yet! |
Mom and Dad with their offspring, 50th anniversary celebration |
seasonal gourmet feast, 2021: (a dual-mode family celebration) Xmas lunch in the Carolina lowcountry |
December 24, 2021
DEC 24, classic palindrome: 'a Santa at NASA'
December 23, 2021
DEC 23, variant Nantucket limerick: zoophile from Nanoose
December 22, 2021
DEC 22, planet-saving verse: shorebird council's demand
ruddy turnstone at a narrow Carolina beach-strip littered with oyster-shells. This bird is a long distance migrator, roosting in the high Arctic. |
shorebird, seen near Toronto lakeshore: killdeer? |
turnstones (running), and oystercatcher |
December 21, 2021
DEC 21, Carolina lowcountry: delicious December days
Editor's Note: As old age and aversion to cold weather have descended, we spend time whenever we can in the Carolina low-country. It is a cliché to say that winter is shorter in more southerly places, but that sometimes means that there are days when winter rages back in central Canada, but is not in evidence down here in lotus-land. On this particular day we learned from our weather-app that it would be snowy back home in Toronto, but would be a short-sleeve day in coastal Carolina.
Pelicans perched at creekside awaiting the returning fishers |
Tranquility near the center of suburban action |
Geometric restored oyster-bed at the Pitt St. Bridge park, Arthur Ravenel Bridge in background |
American white ibises in the marsh |
white ibis in flight |
cormorants on dock |
toothpick grasshopper on papyrus leaf |