verse in honour of Dr. JJ, whose love of life included comedy, wordplay, and the music of poetry ... ; he had provided the dog-pics a few months ago for a post here.
Dr. JJ, 1946 |
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.
verse in honour of Dr. JJ, whose love of life included comedy, wordplay, and the music of poetry ... ; he had provided the dog-pics a few months ago for a post here.
Dr. JJ, 1946 |
blog-post in honour of Dr. JJ, whose love of life included comedy and the outdoor life ...
We had never personally seen a wild turkey previously, in our South Carolina suburban subdivision (or anywhere else, for that matter). Yesterday changed all that !
We do have some other poetic thoughts and photos on the subject of turkeys to share with readers:
"The domestic turkey: a brief saga". Click HERE.
"Wild gay turkeys: True-and-faux photos." Click HERE.
"Desnooding turkeys: Role of the Mohel (Birdlore)." Click HERE.
Incidental Photo:
Dr. JJ (left), with his younger bro |
verse in honour of Dr. JJ, whose love of life included comedy and the music of poetry ...
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). Some of the palindromes exploited here are found in the classic repertoire of such wordplay, part are variants on these classics, and a part derive entirely from the distorted mental processes of the authors.
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.
palinku |
palinku |
Algonquin fishing expedition, 1952, Dr. JJ on reader's right |
verse in honour of Dr. JJ, whose love of life included comedy and the music of poetry ...
If you liked this submission, you might want to refer to our entire collection of verses about human and animal denizens of bars, pubs and other watering-holes. Click HERE.
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Authors' Note:
oy gevalt (oy-guh-VULT): phrase borrowed from Yiddish; an exclamation expressing shock, surprise or disapproval
schadenfreude (SHA-den-froi-duh, or as here, sha-den-FROI-duh): loanword from German; taking delight in others' misfortune
You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
JJ, spoofing with youngest bro, 1970 |
This blogpost honours 'Dr. JJ', whose love of life encompassed humour, musical parody, and even medical politics ...
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele an guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Mergerwocky" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
Dr JJ, in tub at reader's left, 1947 |
To review our poetic effusion about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
Incidental Photo:
JJ with family,2020, at his summer cottage (photo courtesy BF) |