A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- 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.
April 21, 2020
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: star-nosed mole
April 20, 2020
APR 20, singable satire: Frank Sinatra sings "MY BLUE SIT-ON"
She’s plump but petite,
Where I strap on My Blue Heaven.
Boat-ramp to launch My Blue Heaven.
Could have a fishin’-pole, small ice-chest on a tidal ‘crick’
And she won’t swamp in wake or surf – that’s quite a trick.
Shem Creek, SC foreground: sit-on kayak background: trawlers |
Where scupper-holes drain
Skip’s feeling no pain
Secure in his new blue sit-on.
I’ve got my cellphone in a baggy, I’m not gab-repressed
So while I’m damp and floating, I’ll 'yack-yack or text.
When my darling calls
That evening is nigh
I’ll be docking My Blue Heaven.
A neat gift for me
Just turned seventy.
I’m happy with My Blue Heaven,
Just so happy in My Blue Heaven.
April 19, 2020
APR 19, curtained verse: business agenda
April 18, 2020
APR 18, magical canal palindromes: 'A man, a plan, ... Paris'
April 17, 2020
APR 17, Ontario nostalgia: across the Great Lakes
April 16, 2020
APR 16, classic palindrome: 'Do geese see God?'
web-photo Plato (portrait bust) sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E. |
April 15, 2020
APR 15, the Charleston garden: Japanese yew
April 14, 2020
APR 14, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #5/#6
April 13, 2020
APR 13, geysers: second-hand geyser
April 12, 2020
APR 12, patients and maladies: the common cold
April 11, 2020
APR 11, waterfowl: snowy egrets
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'.
April 10, 2020
APR 10, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#13,#14)
April 9, 2020
APR 9, American satire: results of DT's first impeachment trial (birds'-eye view)
Reprise, originally posted February 9 and 10, 2020.
Authors' Note: Readers might want to check out prior posts, including that of Feb 9, entitled "Anagrammatic tribute to a Senator", and those of January 1, 9, 10 and 11, dealing with great egrets. The photos of birds were obtained from Giorgio Coniglio's personal collection, whereas those of political leaders were obtained from readily available online sources.
We hope that you enjoyed this playful photo-art. You can find 30 more submissions, mostly poetic on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
April 8, 2020
APR 8, limerick variations: the 6th line ("addendum-icitis")
April 7, 2020
APR 7, poets' corner: gender-neutral language
April 6, 2020
APR 6, etymology: 'lagoon'
April 5, 2020
APR 5, poetic non-sequitur: close quarters
April 4, 2020
APR 4, pandemic poetry: 'stay-at-home'
April 3, 2020
APR 3, wordplay maps: sister-cities anagrams (10-12)
April 2, 2020
APR 2, magical palindromes: examples #16 to #20
April 1, 2020
APR 1, bottom line of medical humor: diarrhea
The authors regret that there are no appropriate images to accompany this verse.