MAR 10, a brief singable saga: Walrus and Carpenter (lowcountry version)

ORIGINAL POEM/STORY: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a poem recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice in chapter 4 of Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871.

POETRY-LYRICS: The third verse of the satire was originally composed as a limerick based roughly on the Lewis Carroll poem and submitted to OEDILF, an online humour dictionary, by Giorgio Coniglio in 2018. Giorgio subsequently expanded the poem to the current 6 verses.

PARODY-SONGLINK: These verses were originally conceived as poetic lyrics. However, they can, like almost all limericks, be easily sung using  certain well-known tunes; in this case, Carole King's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?".  

Click HERE to access ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany the song ("Walrus and Carpenter", lowcountry version) on your favorite instrument.

But, if you are interested only in the lyrics, continue with the presentation that follows ...  

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other  and other general offerings.    

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog, proceed to 'Claire's celerity' (words and nonsense).

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to 'Chemainus, British Columbia '.  

 

MAR 9, trees: hearts-of-palm (peach palm)

Authors' Note: re HEARTS-OF-PALM

  The domesticated form of the peach palm or palmito, offers an ecologically attractive solution to the puzzle of how to harvest the delicacy, hearts of palm. The young trees of this agriculturally superior species (farmed in Costa Rica, Brazil and other tropical Latin American countries), unlike closely related species, grow thornless and produce many suckers which can be harvested without harm to the main tree. 

  In contrast, the chief native of the USA, sabal palmetto or cabbage-palm, undergoes a lethal injury with harvesting.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

MAR 8, wordplay maps: sister-cities anagrams (7-9)

MAR 7, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #2

You can review an amazing number of anagrams based on this book title on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. There are two posts to view:  ’A Very Stable Genius': Theme and Variations (97 anagrams), and 

'A Very Stable Genius': additional funky anagrams

MAR 6, American satire: political anagrams

Author's Note:   Generally, anagrams give results which are bizarre, unexpected and somewhat random, like "fake news". At least to his current detractors, there may appear to be a compelling stories hidden in these anagrams (italicized) of the name of the 45th U.S. President, but in fact the possible links are coincidental. It should be remembered that composers of wordplay, such as anagrams and palindromes, do not 'invent' the material, but only report it.

We hope that you enjoyed these verses. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!  

MAR 5, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#9,#10)

You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE! 

MAR 4, magical palindromes: examples #11 to #15

TO ENLARGE any slide or stand-alone photo on this blog, just click on it. To reverse the process, and return to this standard view, find the little 'x' in the upper right corner of the black field and click there.

You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense", HERE.

If you are still interested, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.

MAR 3, Carolina lowcountry: sunset excursion

MAR 2, exotic destination: LaBelle, Florida (swamp-cabbage festival)

photo courtesy of Uncommon Solutions

Other verses about 'Exotic Travel Destinations' can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.                                               Click HERE.

MAR 1, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #1

You can review an amazing number of anagrams based on this book title on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. There are two posts to view:  ’A Very Stable Genius': Theme and Variations (97 anagrams), and 

'A Very Stable Genius': additional funky anagrams

FEB 29, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife

a dock-coyote

Pete the Plastic Pelican

lawn unicorn, Mt. Pleasant, SC

a flock of flamingos

FEB 28, American satire: Disingenuous Don

Author's Note: Rex Tillerson, formerly a petroleum-industry executive, served for just over a year as Secretary of State under the contentious 45th president. Tillerson disagreed with his chief on a number of issues, the press reporting that Tillerson had referred to his boss as a "moron". Although this report was denied, Tillerson was publicly challenged by his leader to an IQ contest, and then was summarily fired in March 2018.

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!  

FEB 27, a brief saga: sabal palmetto trees

Authors' Note: Sabal palmettos, native trees growing along the southeastern and Gulf coastlines of the United States, are also distributed and planted in the temperate portions of the country further west.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

FEB 26, the Charleston garden: garden-tour docent

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Poetry Praising the Charleston Garden' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!