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.
November 14, 2023
NOV 14r, pandemic poetry: social distancing
November 13, 2023
NOV 13, terminal (poetic) exclamation: KERPLUNK!
November 12, 2023
NOV 12r-, Toronto ravines: art installations
reprise from November 2020
November 11, 2023
NOV 11, poetic non-sequitur: hoggishly
The collections of short verses entitled "Non-Sequiturs" on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contain 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.
November 10, 2023
November 9, 2023
NOV 9r, bi-lyrical limerick: 'a poet and his bros'
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 10, bi-lyrical limerick: 'a poet and his bros'
November 8, 2023
NOV 8, postal places, Canada: Goose Bay and Gander, NL
Gander, population 12,000, located on the island north of the capital of St. John's, had been founded in the 1930s as a refuelling stop for the expanding number of commercial transatlantic flights. It recently became famous as the recipient town for diverted passenger aircraft during the 9/11 debacle.
The town of Goose Bay, population 8000, now administratively known as Happy Valley - Goose Bay, is the largest settlement in the icy northern portion of the province. Founded in 1941, it was selected for its potential as a military airbase, and served that function throughout World War Two.
A terse story about "dangerous": A recent novice visitor from France, flying overnight to Toronto, sleepily noted the key towns on the plane's route-map, and wondered why "Danger" was prominently displayed near the country's east coast.
November 7, 2023
NOV 7, submitted palindromes, targeted: "A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL -- PANAMA"
November 6, 2023
NOV 6r, waterfowl, gallinules
a) reprise from September 2020
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'.
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'.
November 5, 2023
NOV 5, Toronto excursion: down by the Lake
November 4, 2023
November 3, 2023
NOV 3r, American satire: conspiracy theories
a) reprise from November 3, 2020
NOV 3, American satire(3): conspiracy theories
November 2, 2023
NOV 2r, magical palindromes: more from Paris
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 2, magical palindromes: more from Paris
November 1, 2023
NOV 1, objectionable adjectives: horrible
Authors' Note: Horrible (like its close cousins terrible and frightful) has become a difficult term to define. Originally meaning full of horror, or capable of engendering horror, it can now be applied in two opposing directions.
Grisly, [D]gruesome. they're [E9] terribly [A7]gorable.
Critics, [D]reading at [D7]night,
Can't a[G]void taking [Gm]fright --
With Thanks[E9]giving-fest sweeter than [A7]honey.
Critics [D]won't be an[D7]noyed;
They'll de[G]light, over[Gm]joyed
At my [D]verse they'll term [A7]"horribly [D]funny".
October 30, 2023
OCT 30, singable satire: Julie Andrews sings "EWE-YEW-YOU" (the English homonym medley)
PARODY-LYRICS
October 29, 2023
OCT 29, duplication: hocus-pocus
October 28, 2023
OCT 28r, death and the afterlife: ghostbusting equipment
October 27, 2023
OCT 27r, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023.
October 26, 2023
OCT 26, gruesome verse: hidey-hole
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
October 25, 2023
OCT 25, gruesome verse: horripilation (goose bumps)
Authors' Note: Goose bumps or goose pimples are a common transient physiological change produced by stimulation of the skin's small and widely distributed arrector pili, tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle. Their appearance may be provoked by physical conditions (such as a cold environment) or emotional factors, including embarassment, a sexual turn-on, or fear. The latter, accompanied by profound anxiety (the heebie-jeebies), and "hair standing on end" (piloerection or horripilation) is a reaction scaled down from that found in the animal kingdom, e.g. porcupines throwing their quills to put off predators.
Heebie-jeebies is gramatically another of those appealing (re) duplications, like helter-skelter and hocus-pocus, and represents a topic appropriate for discussion on Hallowe'en.
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.