TOURISTS' PALINDROMIC GUIDE: The Old World #19-#24

This post represents a follow-up to these posts...
- Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #1
- Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #2
- Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #3

SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym), 2019. 
WORDPLAY LINK: Geographically focused concoctions are among the many palindromic treasures honored and displayed on this site. Check out the list of entries for "The Palindrome Suite". 
SONGLINK: Some readers will be delighted (others will continue to groan) at our collection of songs based on palindromic phrases -- check out the links shown on earlier blogposts.

Suomi' is the natives' name for 'Finland'

Addendum: Readers might also note that ...

Pool revile: Liverpool

Readers might note that there have been a few unfortunate omissions from the panels shown above, including ...  

Loop revile: Liverpool.

Do you still crave more palindromic fun? Click HERE for 'concluding remarks' about New-World and Old-World palindrome. 

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Viral Verse: PANDEMIC POETRY, parts #1 and #2

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 (3 stanzas --  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

(Note that the three stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

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UPROOTED VERSE: Poems about TREES, first growth

Sabal Palmettos
Shem Creek Park,
Mt Pleasant S.C.

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, December 2018. Today's verses have been published online at OEDILF.com., after approval in their rigorous editing format 
The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 120,000 carefully edited poems (Giorgio is proud to have contributed over 900 hundred by 2024). 
WORDPLAY LINK: The current post picks up on themes discussed in the earlier post "Sappy Verse". And, as still more verses about trees continue to be formulated after the present post was completed, you will find those as  a later blogpost.  

By the way, to find more limericks, or any other search target on either of these 2 blogs, use the SEARCH-FUNCTION found at the top of the right-hand margin.

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Aged street trees

Apple trees

Camphor laurels

Cassias (cinnamon trees)

Crepe myrtles

Gnarling 

Horsechestnut trees

Muir Woods

Norway maples, #1

(for continuation, see link below) 

Authors' Note: Our family pet for 14 years, George the Rabbit (Giorgio Coniglio in Italian) was an unpredictable and somewhat ornery soul. Talented and demanding (yes, he learned to do tricks), he did not care for traditional rabbit goodies like lettuce and carrots, but loved certain fruits including pears and apples. A small pile of apple twigs could keep him engaged for hours on end, and we were fortunate to have an apple tree growing near our back fence.

Authors' Note:  Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs noted for the aromatic oils found in their leaves and bark. 

  C. camphora, a tree important for production of camphoraceous oils in parts of Asia, was introduced into Australia as an ornamental in 1822. The hardy invaders have degraded the environment as they spread, clogging sewers, changing the composition of the soil, and taking over habitat from the eucalyptus on which koalas feed.

  You can read more about the camphor laurel infestation ravaging northern Australia HERE.

 

Addendum: Fall color, mid-Atlantic seaboard
photo kindly contributed by MMH

 

 

Under a Norway maple

EDITORIAL ADDENDUM (July 2021, updated):

Owing to hordes of avid readers beating down our door, a second installment has been made available. 
CLi/uCK HERE to view "More Limericks About Trees".

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Most of the key elements, such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres, also has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.