Since 2016 Giorgio Coniglio, registered pseudonym and editor-in-chief, has been bundling collections of POETRY, WORDPLAY and PHOTOGRAPHY, seasoned with humour and parody, with the sole aim of entertaining YOU with presentations at the rate of 4 times per month. The related blog "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE" sends out items from these collections in somewhat random order one-at-a-time.
Monday, 20 November 2023
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
DEFINING OPINIONS, fifth octet
previous posted poems:
(first octet):academically
birdlife
crepuscular
cruddy
diaphoretic
envision
expertise
hamuli
(second octet);
haunch
heinous
heinous
hoarding
holdout
hole#1
hole #2
(third octet):
holler
hollow
homogenized milk
hone
honey
honk
honorifics
hooey
(fourth octet):
hoot
hopeful
Hormones
hors d'oeuvre
hose
hostility
hot
hourly
CURRENT CONTENTS
Housewife
Humorless
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Friday, 10 November 2023
EXOTIC TRAVEL DESTINATIONS, part #2
previously posted poems (part #1)
air travel
Cappadocia, Turkey
Chania, Crete
Congolese hippodromes
discount fares to Australia
Ford Ord national monument
Haifa (Holyland)
Hawai'i, US and Haida Gwaii, Canada
CURRENT CONTENTS:
Iceland
Labelle, Florida
Micronesia
Mt. Pleasant, S. Carolina
Nome, Alaska
Swiss Alps
Chemainus, BC (6 verses, a 'brief saga')
(Note that the six verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.)
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Sunday, 5 November 2023
BINOMIAL EXPRESSIONS, part #3
previously posted poems
(part #1 - December 5, 2021)
hale and hearty
hug and kiss
food and drink
first and last
sin and redemption
down and out
betwixt and between
hem and haw
(part #2 - August 5, 2023)
flotsam and jetsam
by hook or by crook
poop and scoop
bump and grind
birds and bees
flora and fauna
publish or perish
high and dry
CURRENT CONTENTS
Here and there
Echoic binomials (3 verses, a 'brief saga' )
Healthy, wealthy and wise (a trinomial)
SONG-LINK
(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.)
"Bigger and bigger" in the above collection exemplifies nicely the echoic binomial.
More to follow
And, it doesn't take too much imagination to guess that the whole enterprise can be extended on occasion to three parallel words (nouns, verbs or adjective).
SONG-LINK
Some musically inclined readers might enjoy a song for which Giorgio took the lyrics for the poem "Echoic Binomials", and adjusted them to fit with the melody of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?". If interested, click here for "Again and Again".
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