Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
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.
April 14, 2024
APR 14, defining opinion: haunch
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
April 13, 2024
APR 13, geysers: second-hand geyser
a) reprise from 2020
APR 13, geysers: second-hand geyser
b)
April 12, 2024
APR 12, patients and their maladies: the common cold
a) reprise from April 2024:
APR 12, patients and maladies: the common cold
April 11, 2024
APR 11, waterfowl: snowy egrets
a) reprise from 2020
APR 11, waterfowl: snowy egrets
b) additional birdie-pic
April 10, 2024
APR 10 (2024), singable satire: Julie Andrew sings "JEUX-DE-MOTS" from the musical "The Sound of Homonyms"
PARODY-LYRICS, continuing from our prior blog-post of December 10, 2023.
Père (pair) -- for two adopting Dads
Frère (fray-er)-- a nearly worn-out Bro
Soeur (sewer) -- big Sis with mouth that's bad
Chat (shah) -- our middle-Eastern cat
Tante (taunt) -- Ma's sibling who's a tease
Bébé (bay-BAY) -- Brest is where he's at:
Partie (par-TEE)/part of our famille (fa-MEE).
Mère, père, frère, soeur, chat, tante, famille !
April 9, 2024
APR 9, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#13,#14)
a) reprise from April 2020
APR 10, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#13,#14)
April 8, 2024
APR 8, poets' corner: gender-neutral language
a) reprise from 2020
APR 7, gender neutral language
April 7, 2024
APR 7, limerick variations: lengthy limericks (the 6th line)
a) reprise from 2020
APR 8, limerick variations: lengthy limericks - the 6th line
April 6, 2024
April 5, 2024
APR 5, poetic non-sequitur: close quarters
a) reprise from April 2020
non-sequitur: close quarters
Authors' Note: Claustrophobe and its variants, claustrophobic and claustrophobia have been defined in other verses at OEDILF.
Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But, should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
b)
Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But, should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
April 4, 2024
APR 4, pandemic poetry: stay-at-home orders
a) reprise from April, 2020
APR 4, pandemic poetry: 'stay-at-home'
April 3, 2024
APR 3, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 3 additional verses
In this post, we continue with our 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).
And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes') which you can review by clicking HERE.
\April 2, 2024
APR 2, magical palindromes: examples #16 - #20
a) reprise from April, 2020
APR 2, magical palindromes: examples #16 to #20
April 1, 2024
APR 1, defining opinion: hole #2
March 31, 2024
MAR 31, lowcountry excursion: Brookgreen Gardens, SC
visit to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina |
"The Saint James Triad", bronze sculpture 1997, Richard McDermott Miller |
"Torse de Femme", limestone sculpture 1989, David Klass |
"Time and the Fates of Man", bronze 1939, Paul Manship |
visitor admiring Spanish moss |
a quiet, floral corner |
"Pegasus", granite 1954, Laura Gardin Fraser |
"Girl with Squirrel", Sylvia Shaw Judson |
"Diana of the Chase", bronze 1922, Anna Hyatt Huntington |