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'.
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.
February 19, 2023
FEB 19, waterfowl: feral 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'.
February 18, 2023
FEB 18, Canadiana: Canadian moose
Authors' Note: This verse was inspired by a character in a verse by Chris J. Strolin who railed against the use of the incorrect term 'Canadian goose'.
In fact, when Bruce was insightfully contemplating the introduction of moose into suitable environment in Newfoundland (NEW-found-land), the island was a separate British colony. As railway building had recently opened the island's interior, it was hoped that hunters would be attracted in search of a species in decline in the US and parts of Canada.In 1904, four eastern moose from New Brunswick (that subspecies is known as Alces alces americana) had been set loose on the island. Ultimately Newfoundland, including its burgeoning population of moose, joined the Canadian confederation in 1949.
The rest is history, eh? Newfoundland now (2023) has the densest population of moose in North America, accounting for 150,000 of the continent's million remaining large ungulates.
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
February 17, 2023
FEB 17, defining opinion: hot
February 16, 2023
FEB 16, mythed opportunities: Leda and the swan
Authors' Note: King T. refers to Sparta's King Tyndareus, husband of Leda. These characters in the story of "Leda and the Swan" were presumably mortal. However, relevant accounts, as depicted in literature and representative art, vary as to the mortal status of the couple's famous offspring (the twins Helen and Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux were hatched as human babies from the oversized eggs.)
"Leda and the Swan" a subtle rendition with the swan at her feet; unspecified British sculptor, Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto. |
"Leda and the Swan", bronze sculpture, Bruno Piccirilli, 1945, displayed at Brookgreen Gardens, SC |
February 15, 2023
FEB 15, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#7,#8)
a) reprise from February, 2020
FEB 15, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#7,#8)
February 14, 2023
FEB 14, poetic non-sequitur: decolletage (+ Val's Day)
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
February 13, 2023
Feb 13, homophonous verse: identity rhymes
February 12, 2023
FEB 12, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial
February 11, 2023
FEB 11, garden intruders: common moles
a) reprise from February, 2020
FEB 11, garden intruders: common (eastern) moles
February 10, 2023
FEB 10, a brief saga: Newfoundland potato famine of 1846 - 8
Back in Ireland, landlords took advantage, and bought tickets to encourage resourceless tenants to emigrate; their arrival in Canada was anticipated charitably by the public and by local governments, often despite low potential for contribution to the economy. But in fact, many refugees were sick ("ship's fever" often equated to dysentery or typhus) on arrival or shortly afterward; in the summer of 1847, an estimated 20,000 died in typhus epidemics that ravaged Montreal and Quebec, as well as settlements in New Brunswick and Ontario. The longer term effect on health and other services was devastating for these relatively small recipient towns.
Online Sources:
Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia
Newfoundland Potato Famine - Wikipedia
History of Irish immigration to Canada - Irish PostFebruary 9, 2023
FEB 9, exemplification: ablauts and verb past-tenses
Authors' Note: Ablaut (AHB-lowt) is a linguistic term, derived from German, for a vowel transition resulting in a change in word meaning. Such changes are the basis of the simple past tense and the past participle in a substantial proportion of irregular English verbs, as exemplified in the second verse. Further discussion is found here, here, here, and elsewhere.
To review our whole collection of "exemplary exemplifications", click HERE.
February 8, 2023
FEB 8, inspired by Ogden Nash: anapestic rehash of "the purist"
February 7, 2023
FEB 7, at heart: hypertension
February 6, 2023
FEB 6, objectionable adjectives: histonomical
The role of histonomy, if any, as well as that of its adjectival derivatives, is considerably less certain.
You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight verses) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.
February 5, 2023
FEB 5, higher connections: wannabe autocrat
February 4, 2023
FEB 4, (re)duplication: hubba-hubba
rubba: rubber (American slang for condom), with typical non-rhotic pronunciation
February 3, 2023
FEB 3, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife
reprise from February (leap year) 2020:
FEB 29, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife
February 2, 2023
FEB 2, palinku (poetic novelty): drinks
(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
February 1, 2023
FEB 1, spineless verse (invertebrates): geohelminths
January 31, 2023
JAN 31, doctors and their practices: neighbourhood analyst (capsaicin)
January 30, 2023
January 29, 2023
JAN 29, signs of confusion: second collection
This post is the second in a series of 5. You can attempt to get all of this straight by reviewing the collection in the previous post of November 15, 2022 :
toplessness? |
as a child, I believed that 'Pickering' was an abbreviation for 'pickled herring'. I guess I was wrong |
This post is the second in a series of 5. You can push onwards and review the collections in these subsequent posts ...