HAPPY BIRTHDAY, P.E.H !!!
a) reprise from December 23, 2020
HAVE a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON !!!
b) Seasonal photo:
seasonal lighting at City Hall |
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.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, P.E.H !!!
HAVE a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON !!!
b) Seasonal photo:
seasonal lighting at City Hall |
a) reprise from December 2020:
b) recent birdie-pic
software-enhanced photo (January 2024)
You can review illustrated verses like these in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
b) current birdie-pic
northern cardinal |
C. Eijkman 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology discovery of anti-neuritic factor (B1): commemorative stamp |
In this post, we will 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.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
Authors' Note: Gamophobia is an irrational fear of getting married, or of interpersonal commitment. Gamophobic individuals, or gamophobes, whatever their political views, are people who harbour such neurotic anxieties.
The slogan "better red than dead" was mentioned in a book that British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in 1961, in the face of a potential East-West nuclear confrontation; it was subsequently adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organization that Russell helped found. The slogan has been used in both directions, with hardline rightwingers sometimes proclaiming "Better dead then red".
Also, a related disorder, gynophobia, is discussed in another of our intriguing and informative verses.
You can review all the poems in our collection "Pinkos: forward thinkers" by clicking HERE.
a) reprise from December 2020