Sunday, 10 August 2025

AUG 10, 2025: CANADIANA #6 [6]

 


Following on with our penchant for all things Canadian, this post is a continuation of a collection of verses displayed here on August 10, 2020 (national anthems #1), August 10, 2021 (national anthems #2), August 10, 2022 (national anthems #3), August 10, 2023 (national anthems #4), and August 10, 2024 (national anthems #5).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

(national anthems #1): Canadian spellings, speech borrowings, Canadian weather, Toronto/Buffalonian.

(national anthems #2): compassionate use, overwintering waterfowl, seniors hockey, joual, Canadian moose.

(national anthems #3): Kim Jong Un's visit, snow-biota, Canadian Thanksgiving, Haida Gwaii, prairie home.

(national anthems #4): Mounties, Nanaimo bars, founding cultures, crept and leapt, Newfoundland potato famine.

(national anthems #5): z,z,z,z,z.


CURRENT CONTENTS: (#6) 

Nanaimo bars
Founding cultures (Canadian origins)
Crept and leapt
Don-tinental unification -- 'fifty-first'
Newfoundland potato famine (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')
Chemainus, BC (6 stanzas,  'brief saga')
related sagas -- Canada ("national verse")




Authors' Note:  The Canadian author regrets the unapologetic tone of this diatribe (see borrow). He does point out, however, that the verse constitutes a trio of timely diplomatic nonsense along with Panama Canal Zone and Greenland.

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