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.
October 22, 2023
OCT 22, postal places, Canada: Deseronto, ON
October 21, 2023
OCT 21, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia) (DTr)
reprise from October 2020
OCT 31, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia)
October 20, 2023
OCT 20 (2023), singable satire: Leonard Cohen sings "DANTE VIEWS the PAIN OF LUST" (Canto 5b)
ORIGINAL POEM: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.
ORIGINAL SONG: "Dance Me To The End Of Love", Leonard Cohen, 1984.
Inferno Canto#5b:
had letched
Buffeted like winter starlings by the smiting wind
Classical and literary lovers felled by Lust
Cleopatra, Semiramis, figures he knew well,
Tossing on the winds of Hell
Tossing on the winds of Hell.
Dante feels great pity for a thousand tortured shades
Time-out from their endless flight
Dante felt the pain of lust.
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina Cai...
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Cai..
Gianciotto ( or Giovanni the lame) - disparaging nickname for Giovanni Malatesta
Caina - a pit in the lowest ring of Hell reserved for those who have committed treachery and violence against family members (named after Cain, Abraham's son)
October 19, 2023
OCT 19, gruesome verse: dispatch (DTq)
a) reprise from October 2021
b) Decorative Touches
October 18, 2023
OCT 18, waterfowl stills: on a golden pond (DTp)
A continuation from a post of September 19, capturing views from a gorgeous day at summer's end:
ducks on duckweed |
October 17, 2023
OCT 17, terminal (poetic) exclamation: YIKES!
October 16, 2023
OCT 16, poetic non-sequitur: dishwasher (appliance)
slow uptake of the residential dishwasher (photos per televised documentary) |
inside a current domestic dishwasher |
October 15, 2023
OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails (DTo)
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pandemic Poetry' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
October 14, 2023
OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber river valley (DTn)
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber River Valley (photocollages #1-#3)
October 13, 2023
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: beavers (DTm)
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: beavers (Rod the rodent)
b) Decorative Touches
fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks
October 12, 2023
OCT 12, dental feelings (sentimental verse): amalgam
Authors' Note: Although standard dental amalgam is an alloy of mercury and silver, routine removal of these fillings is not routinely recommended. Ask your dentist.
October 11, 2023
OCT 11, Ontario nostalgia: stormy Ashbridge's Bay
reprise from October 2020
Ontario nostalgia: stormy Ashbridge's Bay (Lake Ontario waterfront at Toronto)
October 10, 2023
OCT 10 (2023), singable satire: Julie Andrews sings "EWE-YEW-YOU" (the English homonym medley)
PARODY-LYRICS