silver maple in Toronto park; large broken-off limb |
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".
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.
silver maple in Toronto park; large broken-off limb |
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'.
Authors' Note:
à propos: in regard
outré: inappropriately eccentric in behaviour or appearance, or exceeding the limits of propriety
sans doute (sahn DOOT): certainly, without doubt
paraph (PA-ruhf): confirmatory mark after a signature, derived more remotely from the French term paraphe
nonpareil: a paragon, one who has no equal
Although the word nonpareil has been used in English, often pronounced as non-pah-REHL, since the 16th century, one must adopt the snobbier French pronunciation (non-pah-RAY) for the verse to rhyme.
Despite its status as a longstanding valuable English descriptor, unique retains a Gallic sound, which is frankly ... unique.
mallard drake |
mute swan, Middleton Place |
a green anole; one of E.T.'s relations? |
cycling under Spanish moss |
Start of the 'maiden voyage', 2015 (archival photo per RCH) |