Wednesday, 15 November 2023

DEFINING OPINIONS, fifth octet

 previous posted poems:

(first octet):
academically
birdlife
crepuscular
cruddy
diaphoretic
envision
expertise
hamuli
haunch
heinous
hoarding
holdout
hole#1
hole #2
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')



















photo courtesy of Uncommon Solutions
Florida; armadillos; travel destinations

























shoreline of Charleston Harbor,
cruiseship approaching in shipping lane




approachable 'wild' waterfowl,
an attraction at the Shem Creek boardwalk













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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
More to follow





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 "Bigger and bigger" in the above collection exemplifies nicely the echoic binomial.


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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