You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
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.
May 3, 2020
MAY 3, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#17,#18)
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
May 2, 2020
MAY 2, savoir-faire: French loanwords
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.
May 1, 2020
MAY 1, pandemic poetry: HB to me (birthday confinement)
April 30, 2020
APR 30, exotic destination: Nome, Alaska
April 29, 2020
APR 29, a brief saga: Claire's celerity
April 28, 2020
APR 28, insects: mosquitoes
April 27, 2020
APR 27, Carolina lowcountry: chainsaw sculpture
April 26, 2020
APR 26, trees: gnarling
April 25, 2020
APR 25, Carolina lowcountry: further spring excursions
mallard drake |
mute swan, Middleton Place |
a green anole; one of E.T.'s relations? |
cycling under Spanish moss |
April 24, 2020
APR 24, scopes of medicine: endoscopic spectrum
April 23, 2020
APR 23, wordplay maps, new world palindromes (#15,#16)
April 22, 2020
APR 22, boating: kayaking at Shem Creek
Start of the 'maiden voyage', 2015 (archival photo per RCH) |
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. |