Wednesday 20 May 2020

MAY 20 (2020), political palindromes, N- P

 

Glitch Notice: The first palindrome should read: Biden One dib. 





Oddly, you have reached a set of palindromes designated by the letter 'P', (left lower corner), and you can't go forwards, i.e. there are no more.

To go BACKWARDS, return to the previous set ('O') on September 13, 2020.

OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST ('A') on this topic


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A few further examples, unused in the panels displayed so far ...

No, worse! Panders to idiots, rednapes. Row on!  

'Nit up' -- sides reversed is -- 'Putin'. 

Nip in if I pull up. Pull up if I nip in.

Golf, par, sin-net, pant. Nap, tennis, rap, flog.

"I" on a rap - paranoia.

S,W,E,N (x?) of Fox News.

Star? Come Don. No Democrats.

Elba? Rudy, "Baby, durable!"


Friday 15 May 2020

HERPETOLOGIC VERSE: More REPTILES

A continuation of a previous post on this topic 
   

 Readers who enjoy poetry describing the natural world around them with illustrative images and informative text, might also enjoy these blog-offerings, each a collage of verses on a wider topic...

Verses about Geysers, Sep '18
Verses about Frogs, Jan '19
Verses about Trees, Apr '19
Verses about Reptiles, Jun '19
Verses about Waterfowl, June '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #2), July '19
Verses about Trees (part #2), Aug '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #3), Apr '20
Verses about Reptiles, (part #2), May '20, as above.
AND, continuing into the future ...
Verses about Waterfowl (part #4 - Loons), Aug '20.
Verses about Waterfowl (part #5), Dec '20. 

The earlier post about reptiles in June 2019 included the following illustrated verses:



        
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, April 2019. Today's verses are under review, or have have been finally accepted for web-publication at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 105,000 carefully edited poems. 

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted, embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone, then formatted using  Powerpoint software. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking. 

BACKGROUND:  "herpetology" - the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians. Readers should note that snakes have intentionally been given short shrift in this poetic idyll owing to the marked aversion by the editor's life-partner.

previous poems posted (original collection)
amphisbaenians
autotomy
beneficial snakes
broad-headed skinks
brown anoles
Carolina anoles
crocodilians

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Eastern glass lizards
Eviction notice
Fence lizards
Five-lined skinks
Geckos (on the ceiling)
Gila monsters
Going green





















Authors' Note: A profusion of tiny setae (filament-hairs) on the lizards' palm-pads, as shown by electron microscopy, explain the gecko's unusual gravity-defying mobility.




Gila monsters are found in southern California, Arizona and northern Mexico. They should enjoy ongoing changes in our climate.








green anole, appearing gray, climbing down fencepost


same anole, 2 minutes later



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Sunday 10 May 2020

Viral Verse: PANDEMIC POETRY


SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio and Dr. GH, March and April, 2020. Many of this group of terse verses has also been posted on Facebook, and most have also appeared individually as entries on our blog 'Daily Illustrated Nonsense' since March 2020.
Hello! I'm your social 
distancing trainer!






GOING VIRAL!


CURRENT CONTENTS:
Cetacean advice
Cleaning services
COVID confinement
Down the street
Do your own dishes (D.Y.O.D.)
The Infirm
Kermit's prediction
March sadness
Mother's day
Social distancing
Stay-at-home orders
What's not to like?
Back to normal
Frontline workers
Squid in the time of COVID (a 'brief saga')




Authors' Note:

cetacean: pertaining to whales, dolphins or porpoises



Authors' Note: This verse, inspired by OEDILF editor MikeAq's experience with housecleaning during the COVID-19 era, imagines the broad spectrum of protective measures needed in the corporate or institutional setting.



Authors' Note: 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us!







Authors' Note

B.Y.O.B.  bring your own booze (bottle)
D.Y.O.D.  do your own dishes, an analogous motto proposed for software-enhanced 'remote get-togethers' via internet
potlatch:  a ceremonial West Coast aboriginal feast, at which highly valued possessions are given away to enhance the host’s prestige
Zoom: software for interactive on-line meetings


































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Tuesday 5 May 2020

Inspired by OGDEN NASH: a) "The Purist", and other works








 Authors' NoteThe above verse represents an anapestic rehash of the story, originally told in rhyming couplets, of Ogden Nash's well-known ten-line work "The Purist". (The anapest is the basic unit of poetic meter in which each 'foot' has the pattern da-da-DA.)    









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