HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JMH!!!
a) reprise from February 2020
FEB 4, trees: Muir Woods
b) current birdie-pic
Carolina chickadee |
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 to JMH!!!
b) current birdie-pic
Carolina chickadee |
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.
IN CELEBRATION OF A PALINDROMIC DAY -- 02/02/2020
(With many thanks to my good friend, Eric K., for his reminder about this important occasion.)
Authors' Note:
You can review verses on this topic in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE.
a) reprise from 2020
Giorgio (on the left) with Pete the Plastic Pelican |
Other Canadian retirees |
At the harbor, Mt. Pleasant SC |
Lunch: Heron-herring? No! That's a great egret with a shrimp |
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison, and recorded by the Beatles for their 1968 album "The Beatles".George Harrison |
a) reprise from January 2020
JAN 29, magical palindromes: introductory poem and examples #1 to #5
bluebird repeatedly trying to fly through the dining-room window |
a) reprise from January 2020
Learn more about these limerick variations as described by their "inventors" and perpetrators HERE !
Readers can find a collection of even more of these variant verses by clicking HERE !
a) reprise from January 2020
a) reprise from January 2020
Authors' Note: Our protagonist, presumably a Canadian snowbird, can take little comfort in the higher values of Fahrenheit than Celsius temperatures in the reasonably livable range. The temperature is what it is; only the describing numbers differ, although they are precisely related as defined in PGS's conversion. And below -40 degrees, Celsius is higher (but not warmer) than Fahrenheit.
The above verse was written on a brisk January morning when the temperature in degrees was -12C (10F) in Toronto, -10C (14F) in Atlanta, and 11C (52F) in Miami.You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as it evolves on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE.
Birds along the south Atlantic coast of the US, like this goldfinch, don't seem to mind. Perhaps they know that it's going to warm up shortly! (At 10:30, it's already up to 31F!)
goldfinch |
Incidental additional poetry:
Robert Burns |