OCT 24, pill-poppin' verse: simethicone for abdominal bloating

a) Reprise of material posted on October 24 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Mimico Creek (photo-collage)

2021: binomial phrases, hug and kiss (poem)

2022: patients and maladies, post-traumatic symptoms (poem)

2023: decorative touches, Lowcountry Scene (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 24, 2024):

Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. With coalescence of the offending small bubbles, the gas is dispersed by flatulence and belching.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 

OCT 23, background-subtracted couples, 2

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 23 in previous years ...

2020: gruesome verse, untimely demise (illustrated poem)  
2021: gruesome verse, two horrific quandaries (illustrated poems)

2022: Toronto oases, Rouge National Park (photo-collage) 
2023: doctors and practices, neighborhood analyst (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 23, 2024):

See the earlier post of October 2 for an introduction to this topic. Note that all the original photos, as well as the processed versions, were obtained with the camera of Giorgio's i-phone 13. 

equine figures

turtles

pigs

kitchen-fish

trumpeter swans

frogs

Halloween personalities

mounted police

OCT 22, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvres

  a) Reprise of material posted on October 22 in previous years ...

2020: old world palindromes, #1 (wordplay maps)  
2021: Toronto oases, city halls (photo-collage)

2022: saving the planet, phosphate detergents (illustrated poem) 
2023: postal places, Deseronto, ON (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 22, 2024):

Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection 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.

OCT 21, philosophical ponderings, "me and my shadow"

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 21 in previous years ...

2020: insects, beer bugs (illustrated poem)  
2021: Toronto ravines, Moore Park (photo-collage)

2022: hellenophilia, Cretan gorges (illustrated poem) 
2023: decorative touches, diptych, abstract (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 21, 2024):

me and my shadow 

OCT 20, singable satire: "CARNIVAL OF CHARLESTON"

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Rhyming Binomials M to Z (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Star-Nosed Mole (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Ballad of Giuliani 2 (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), The Pain of Lust (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 20, 2024): 

PARODY LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Carnival of Venice", traditional song

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014.
PHOTOS of the concert "Carnival of Venice", Charleston SC, by Uncommon Solutions

Coverage of the inciting event by the Charleston "Post and Courier" can be found online.

THE CARNIVAL OF CHARLESTON

 (to the tune of "the Carnival of Venice")


Your rickshaw ride in Charleston
Can't explore that magic town;
The driver's only licensed
A: pick-up;  B: set you down.

Official guides in Charleston
Have to pass exams and train; 
Rapt carriage-tour riders and foot-group
Can't block ante-bellum lanes.

Charleston's famous "Rainbow Row"

A pedicab lurks at your lodgings,
Marks you for a heinous crime;

A sleazy eager historian
Who is keen to sell his time. 

To stamp out these nasty infractions,
Wired police devised a sting
Attired for entrapment as tourists
Massive fines recordings bring.

a rickshaw driver cruises for customers

Few hours in scenic Charleston ?
Cruise-lined there by Carnival,
Snubbed by snobby South-of-Broad big-shots?
Don't treat 'Rick Shaw' as a pal.

If cruising past Fort Sumter
And re-boarding is a must,
Steer clear of Rick's tempting discussions - 
It might be a tourist bust.

a colleague of Rick Shaw, at work

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor,
as proposed in an early painting

Concert of Venetian music; 
a Charleston visitor admires the sets

 

OCT 19, duplication: fuddy-duddy

 

a) Reprise of material posted on October 19 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Taylor Creek (photo-collage)  
2021: Carolina lowcountry, wildlife revisited 1 (photo-collage)

2022: Canadiana, seniors' hockey (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, abstract graphic (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: 

(FUD-ee-dud-ee, or as a possibility here, fud-ee-DUD-ee); another example of a (re)duplication.

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other  SHORT VERSES  in which we have dealt with specific reduplications. 

If interested, readers can also discover three fairly lengthy PATTER-SONGS about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon. These songs form an important part of our cycle of 9 songs about "Word Pairs".

OCT 18, pinkos (forward thinkers): vegetarianism

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

2020: waterfowl, Caribbean brown pelicans (illustrated poem folio)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the 'cock' (poem) 
2022: reprehensible history, submarine warfare #3 (didactic collage)
2023: Toronto oases, on a golden pond (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 18, 2024):

Authors' Note: The authors, Ontario anapestrians, have not eaten meat in two decades. The restaurant scene in Ontario, as in some other world-wide destinations, has gradually become more hospitable to vegan and vegetarian preferences, such as Theresa's and the authors'. This development can be attributed in part to our influx of newcomers from south and east Asia. Meat-eaters can still be readily accommodated, however.

You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

You can review all the poems in our collection "Pinkos: forward thinkers" by clicking HERE.

OCT 17, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 4/7

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

2020: palinku, fruits #1 (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, identity (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, restaurants  (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, ethics (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 17, 2024): 

  In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. 

  Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the "palinku" is a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its earlier English-language forerunners, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence  (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards). 

  To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome, generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem, has been color-coded. Readers will note that we have been publishing verses of this type on the 17th of each month.

  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 16, news update: a new unity

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

2020: anagrams, US scramble-towns 11 (wordplay maps)
2021: anagrams, Canadian scramble-towns 9 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, bunkie (illustrated poem)
2023: terminal exclamation, YIKES! (limerick variation)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 16, 2024):

OCT 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #28

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

2020: pandemic poetry, preventive cocktails (illustrated poem) 
2021: neologism, personal, POTUSA, abuelita latina (poem)

2022: Toronto ravines, mysterious lower East Don (photo-collage)
2023: decorative touches, Carolina lowcountry scenes (fabric art)

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 b) Today's Offering (Oct 15, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month 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 14, US postal places: Green Bay, WI

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Humber River Valley, 1 (photo-collage) 
2021: literature survey course, The Raven, Poe's epic poem

 (illustrated poem)

2022: doctors and practices, retiring dermatologist (poem)
2023: Toronto ravines, Humber River Valley, 3 (photo-collage)

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 b) Today's Offering (Oct 14, 2024): 

Authors' Note: WI is the official abbreviation for the American state of Wisconsin, in which the city of Green Bay, population 110,000, is situated. Founded in 1634 as a French trading post, this settlement on the northern part of Lake Michigan was known in its earlier days as La Baie Verte. Today it is best known as the home of the football team "Green Bay Packers"; activities of the city's priesthood are described in the poem Holy Communion by OEDILFian contributor Chuck Folkers.

 

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OCT 13, barely believable: bears up close!

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

2020: mammalian wildlife, beavers, Rod the sculptor (poem)
2021: mammalian wildlife, batty idioms (illustrated poem)
2022: numbers, baker's dozen, bark mitzvah (poem)
2023: decorative touches, Ontario Lakeland Scene (fabric art) 

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fabric art, R.C.H.

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 13, 2024): 

  Apparently, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is in many circumstances, less territorial, less aggressive, and less dangerous to humans than its relatives, members of the physically similar subspecies, the grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). 

  In Alaska, coastal brown bears, especially those growing up in national parks near the southern coast, become tolerant of the presence of humans, as shown by these photos from an expedition there, as recently obtained and kindly offered for viewing here by my wildlife-photographer buddy Bill Wingfield. 

photos by Dr. William Wingfield,
Lake Clark National Park,
Alaska, August 2024.
Thanks, Bill , and Happy BD!

OCT 12, portraits of couples: skeletal spectres

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

2020: Toronto ravines, salmon run on the Humber (photo-collage)
2021: portraits of couples, loons (poem) 
2022: singular plurals, pluralia tantum, rural plurals (poem)
2023: portraits of couples, mute swans (photo folio)

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jumping salmon

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 12, 2024):  

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.