AUG 4, Carolina lowcountry, day's end in historic Charleston

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AUG 3, mammalian wildlife: ersatz coyotes

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to C.H.!

a) reprise from 2020

AUG 3, mammalian wildlife: ersatz coyotes

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b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

AUG 2, Carolina lowcountry: beach at Sullivan's Island

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AUG 1, ballet at Toronto's Harbourfront: still photos

Here are the NBC dancers warming up.

A great venue,
 just lakeside of Toronto's renowned CN Tower! 

The programme, "Sharing the Stage"
included other innovative groups, like this West African-troupe.

Nearby, the Rogers' Dome (home of the BlueJays),
 lit up as evening comes on.

A pas-de-deux from "Evernew" 

 

For "action clips" from these performances, click HERE.

JUL 31, American satire (prolongation): felony

 

Author's Note: The above verse could be seen as a companion piece to the author's 'felon'. Check that one out HERE.

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

JUL 30 (2023), singable satire: W-I-P

JUL 29, Toronto ravines: Cedarvale

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUL 30, Toronto ravines: Cedarvale Ravine

 

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b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUL 28, insects: DEET insect repellent

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUL 28, insects: insect repellents (DEET)

 

Authors' Note: The full name of the chemical is in fact N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUL 27, Carolina lowcountry: sundown at Shem Creek

 

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JUL 26, magical canal palindromes: far-flung venues

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUL 26, magical canal palindrome --  more far-flung venues

 

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b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUL 25, homophonous verse: bypassed glitches

 

Authors' Note: Of course, the concept that bribes would be of benefit to authors submitting to OEDILF is patently nonsensical. There are a certain number of identity rhymes that appear in the database of edited verses there. The prosaic explanation, however, is that these bypassed initial glitches, being rather subtle in comparison with other flaws, are often under-observed and overlooked.

JUL 24, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto ravines (poem)

 

a) reprise from 2020

JUL 24, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto ravines (poem)

Authors' Note:  Glacial can be pronounced with either 2 or 3 syllables. Here, the word has the meaning of 'produced by, or related to a glacier’. 

  Geologists tell us that during the Wisconsin glaciation, the ice-sheet scooped out soft rock and pushed the piled-up debris, sand and gravel, southward towards Lake Iroquois, the precursor of Lake Ontario. Twelve thousand years ago, with the ending of the ice-age, meltwater from the Laurentide Glacier eroded the channels that became the basis of Toronto's system of ravines.

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You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about the good old days in Ontario by checking the post 'Ontario Nostalgia' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials

JUL 23, Carolina lowcountry: various suburban wildlife

fawn in Mt Pleasant subdivision

realistic guard-alligator (concrete)

well-camouflaged crab on stony path

juvenile black-crown night-heron

young green anole

Anerican green tree frog

 

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JUL 22, patients and their maladies: nervous bladder

 

Authors' Note: Final requests have also been discussed here by speedysnail.

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JUL 21, terminal (poetic) exclamation: KA-POW!

Authors' Note: 

Ka-pow! (variant kerpow!): comic-book type interjection for a noise emitted when a blow is landed in a fight (often involving a super-hero)

Line 6: occasionally used sixth line of a limerick, unheard of in the early days of the modality, finding some currency among modern authors. See our poem on  "Addendum-icitis" HERE. 

The limericks written by Edward Lear and his contemporaries a century ago often included repetition of the poem's key word at the end of the final line.

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