OCT 8r, OEDILFian limericks: haiku poetry, 2

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

2020: Ontario nostalgia, stormy Ashbridge's Bay (photo-collage)
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, moeurs of Nantucket  (illustrated poem) 
2022: poets' corner, editorial balking (poem)
2023: decorative touches, kimono (fabric art)

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Ashbridge's Bay

b) Today's Offering (Oct 8, 2024): 

OCT 7, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 3/7

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

2020: Toronto oases, Leslie Street Spit, 1 and 2 (photo-collage)  
2021: waterfowl, hooded merganser (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, meticulous archivist (poem)
2023: Toronto oases, Leslie Street Spit, 3 and 4 (photo-collage)

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view of Toronto,
from 'the spit'

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 7, 2024): 

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

OCT 6, curtained verse: braless

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

2020: political palindromes, OOO (wordplay)  
2021: death and afterlife, [sic] to death (poem)

2022: duplication, helter-skelter (illustrated poem) 
2023: trinomial phrases, healthy, wealthy and wise (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 6, 2024): 

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post! 

 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'.

OCT 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #27

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

a) Review of material posted on October 5 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, sunset, with shrimpboats (photo)
2021: insects, computer bugs (illustrated poem) 
2022: inspired by Ogden Nash, a sloth in a slough (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Was it a rat I saw? (wordplay)

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shrimpboats at sunset 

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 5, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month (more recently buoyed up by additional postings on the 5th and 15th) you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

OCT 4, poets' corner: argumentively (the Cans and the Can'ts)

 a) Review of material posted on October 4 in prior years ...

2020: classic palindromes, 'saw' and 'see' lines, ... (illustrated poem) 
2021: numbers, quartets, foursomes (illustrated poem)
2022: variant Nantucket limerick, lad from Salinas (illustrated poem)

2023: signs of confusion, 5th collection (photo-collage)

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a sign of confusion

b) Today's Offering (Oct 4, 2024): 

 You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE. 

OCT 3, waterfowl: white ibis (photo-collage)

 a) Review of material posted on October 3 in prior years ...

2020: magic palindromes, A man, ... à Paris. (wordplay) 
2021: oncologic verses, benign tumors, a guidebook (poem)
2022: bar-fauna, Gary the (alli)gator (illustrated poem)

2023: invertebrates, dew worms (illustrated poem)

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Gary, the gator

b) Today's Offering (Oct 3, 2024): 

You might want to start by reviewing the 2020 illustrated poem "American white ibises". Click HERE.

 

white ibis trio,
crepuscular view (return to pond)

Immature form (under two years)
showing chocolate-brown body color

 

OCT 2, portraits of couples: background-subtracted format

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

2020: Greek prefixes, chrono- (poem)
2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 7 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Italian loanwords, ciao (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Gaudi bench (fabric art)

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Gaudi bench

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 2, 2024):  

   Birds, and occasionally other types of animal, may exhibit paired behavior that often seems to reflect the human proclivity for sharing among two mates of different gender. Photographs of these moments, often intimate, are only available for certain species, but are highly prized. We have tried to capture this state of pairing in a series of over 30 blogposts entitled "Portraits of Couples" (you can find these assembled into collections on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense".)  

   We wondered whether a recent technical advance, automated background subtraction, targeted principally at single human subjects, might be of value in highlighting some representations of shared experiences in the biosphere as well as with humans. The software renderings below (the original photos were all taken by Giorgio) show some of our results. It seems that the technique is not bothered too much by the presence of two heads, but only works if the two bodies are touching. And, as with single bird photos, there is the danger that some dangly body parts, such as legs, claws, horns and beaks may be unwittingly amputated by the software.  

        

Canada geese

horses

domestic geese

emus

pigeons 

mallard ducks

mute swans

chickens

broad-headed skinks

brown pelicans

emus

bros

  

bros

OCT 1, excursions: autumn biking around Toronto's waterfront

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 1 in prior years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 39 (wordplay maps)
2021: STD-poetry, tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis) (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, more snowy egrets, (photo-collage)
2023: chemical states, US, western (wordplay maps)

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snowy egret, hunting

b) Today's Offering (Oct 1, 2024): 

view from the Leslie Street Spit

trumpeter swans

rose hips

milkweed

purple asters

clean fill for a future beach

one of many ponds on the spit

at the western beaches

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colorful kayaks

SEP 30, singable satire: a lament -- "WHERE HAS NEUROPHYLIS GONE?"

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 30 in prior years ...

2020: insects, yellow jackets (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Yogi Berra's wisdom (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, Postcard to Chubby Checker (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Broken Arrow (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

Pete Seeger, "America's tuning fork"

ORIGINAL SONG: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger 1960, additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson, also recorded by Kingston Trio in 1962, and later by Peter, Paul and Mary, Marlene Dietrich, etc. Check out the YouTube videos by Seeger here, and by the Kingston Trio here.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.

WHERE HAS NEUROSYPHILIS GONE?

(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")

Where is early Alzheimer’s?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes

Weren’t some medications tried?

Functions slid and patients died;

Care system’s overburdened - 

When will we ever  learn?

Where has neurosyphilis gone,

Headstones fading?

Textbooks say it filled asylums

Long time ago.

Where Trep. pallidum would lurk,

Course of Penicillin works,

One thing we clearly learned,

One thing we clearly learned.

Where is all the Wernicke’s

encephalopathy?

Confabulating, filling wards

I saw it long ago.

Malnourished boozers off the road

Saved by whopping thiamine load

Another thing we’ve learned, 

A useful thing we’ve learned.

Hypothyroid mania?

 - Hormone treatment

Tots doomed by leukodystrophy?

 - Lorenzo’s oil

Polio? Almost gone, my son

- Vaccinated everyone.

Perhaps, few things we’ve learned,

I guess few things we’ve learned.

Where’s dementia research gone?

Some fills graveyards

Prod choline receptors? – seems not

Helpful in long term. 

Inhibit amyloid?

Doesn’t fill the treatment void.

Where’s that key thing to learn? 

Where’s that key thing to learn?

  

Where've Alzheimer's patients gone ?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes.

Weren’t “preventive measures” done?

Gone to graveyards every one;

Care-system's overburdened - 

I hope someday we’ll learn.