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, although portions of it evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
July 12, 2021
JUL 12, insects: deer-and horse- flies
July 11, 2021
July 10, 2021
JUL 10, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'a dog... a pagoda'
July 9, 2021
JUL 9, wordplay maps: new world palindromes #49,50
July 8, 2021
JUL 8, to clot, or not: pulmonary embolism (lung clots)
You can view these verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'To Clot, or Not to Clot' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
July 7, 2021
JUL 7, spineless verse (invertebrates): gastropods
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy!
July 6, 2021
JUL 6, domestic hazards: general hazards
July 5, 2021
JUL 5, garden intruders: squirrels in the garden
urban-dwelling squirrel in a Canadian tree |
July 4, 2021
JUL 4, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' #4
Continuing from the posts of January 16, January 18, January 20, January 22, January 24, and January 27. You might note that there are now more than 200 anagrams in this collection. Who would have guessed?
July 3, 2021
JUl 3, sleek Greek prefixes: HYPER- and HYPO-
July 2, 2021
JUL 2, culinary verse: Nanaimo bars
July 1, 2021
June 30, 2021
June 29, 2021
June 28, 2021
JUN 28, classic palindrome: 'sex at noon taxes'
You can review a collection of illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
June 27, 2021
JUN 27, sleek Greek prefixes: CHIRO-
Clicking HERE will introduce you to our entire collection of verses about the Greek prefixes!
June 26, 2021
JUN 26, mammalian wildlife: the concupiscent rabbit
You can review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
June 25, 2021
JUN 25, wordplay maps: new world palindromes(#47,#48)
June 24, 2021
JUN 24, unusual sightings: Muskoka wildlife
June 23, 2021
JUN 23, funny bones: the prosthetic hipster
June 22, 2021
JUN 22, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'giving a shit'
June 21, 2021
JUN 21, reptiles: broad-headed skinks
another individual, spotted at Caw Caw Plantation |
June 20, 2021
JUN 20 (2021), singable satire: the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sings about canoeing "LOST COUNTRY"
Young canoeist in the bow, Sunset on Bass Lake, Ontario |
SONG-LYRIC UNDERPINNINGS: On our song-blog you can find an earlier concoction entitled "Canoeing Lesson (Canoe, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe)", based on the original song "I Do, etc." by ABBA, 1975. This earlier song also builds on Berton's concept of the relevance of canoeing to Canadian identity.
As is usually the case with song-lyrics, we have simultaneously provided suggested chords for ukulele, guitar or whatever-stringed-instruments for the parody and for the original lyrics on our music-buff site "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". Click HERE, if you want to access those.
A Canadian's someone who
CHORUS: Oh, lost country, now I'm paddlin' back
Now at heart our Rose did hate
Tryin' to make the boat go straight.
Paddlin' lessons were a battle
'Til some tricks she learned (don't tattle!)
In the stern she could discern
That instructors might well yearn
To teach Trudeau's stroke, fiddle-faddle
While she straddled their paddle.
Repeat CHORUS
JUN 20, to clot, or not: Virchow's triad
June 19, 2021
JUN 19, waterfowl: mallard ducks
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'.
June 18, 2021
JUN 18, palinku (poetic novelty): ponderings
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, 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 in English (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.