FEB 10 (2023):True-and-Faux photos: PORTRAITS of COUPLES #3

prior post (1st group)

introduction

domestic turkeys

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armadillos

Aurora and Cephalus

basset hounds

black swans 

black-crowned night herons

black-necked swans 

broad-headed skinks 

bros

prior post (2nd group)

Canada geese 

chickens 

deer

dogpark figures 

domestic geese 1(Paris) 

domestic geese 2(Toronto) 

emus 

family - Canada geese

feral domestic ducks 

frogs 

CURRENT CONTENTS

gemsboks

goats

gorillas

g(i)roomed dogs

gulls (European herring)

Harris hawks 
hippos
horses
house finches

for continuation to the fourth group, follow the link below.

A short time after competing this series on Couples in the animal world, I rediscovered some old song-lyrics I had written for "Pairs", the introductory parody-song for a series about Word-Pairs, (based on the BeeGees' "Words"). It's a bit tangential, but you might like to review it here.

We know that you are itching to review more of this photo-portfolio. So, you can do just that by clicking the 4th group HERE. 

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To resume your review of the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. 

As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

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.

FEB 5 (2023): TORONTO sites and sights [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS

Commuting by rail

Conservatory (Allan Gardens) 

Toronto ravines

Floating Islands (Brickworks)

Riverdale Farm

Yonge Street

More Toronto ravines. See photo-collages dated September 10, 2020, September 15, 2020, October 5, 2020, October 10, 2020. 

Crother Woods

Glen Stewart Park

Humber Bay Park

Authors' Note: We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free!

You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Ontario cactuses, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.

To learn more about Toronto Ravines, see the exciting three previous posts entitled "Hikes, Bikes and Likes: TORONTO RAVINES" #1, #2, and #3.

If your crank is turned (to turn a phrase) by the photographic and poetic material you have been viewing here, you might risk proceeding to a related post entitled "Ontario Nostalgia".

turtles sunning on a floating island
(exceptionally warm day) 

Authors' Note:  The first Lieutenant-Governor of the province Of Upper Canada (Ontario), Sir John Simcoe, sought routes leading northward from his new 

provincial capital at Toronto, away from the U.S. border.

  In 1793, he designed a road, naming it for the British Minister of War, Sir George Yonge, who was also an expert on Roman roads. Yonge Street passes from Lake Ontario north to Lake Simcoe, where it merges into Highway 11, a rural road that extends 1900 km (1200 mi) northwest to the border with the American state of Minnesota.

  Sir George, fifth Baronet of Escot, had served as Lord of the Admiralty and master of the mint, and governor of the Cape Colony, but died penniless and heirless, Yonge Street being his only legacy.

 

  Prior to 1999, the Guinness Book of Records mistakenly conflated Yonge Street with Highway 11, and described it as 'the world's longest street’.  

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As of March, 2026, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

Most of these key elements of our work are assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

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

Wordplay maps: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S in Canada (anagrams #5-8)

 

For more wordplay maps on this topic, click HERE.

To return to the original post, i.e. maps #1-4, click HERE.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

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As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

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.

The frontier of doggerel: PALINKUs (palindrome-enriched haiku verses) from the year 2022

A continuation of our previous posts summarizing the introductory phase of this new poetic concoction....

Go back to review palinkus from the year 2020 by clicking HERE, and  for the year 2021 by clicking HERE.

An additional point: Where do the original palindromes come from?

The majority are in the 'classic repertoire' of this constrained but nonsensical form of writing. The authors are proud to report that they have apparently concocted at least some of the remainder. 

prior posted poems (2021)

canals

fruits #2

gender-roles

hats

identity

Kansas (KS)

partying #3

partying #4

ponderings

potatoes

sweet treats #1

Xmas scandal

CURRENT CONTENTS, posted 2022

Canadiana

conformity

Dennis's ongoing sin

evil

invective

lust indulged

magic palindromes

Paris (France and ON)

restaurants #1

schoolboy humor #1

sports

timidity

for continuation, see the link below.

Authors' Note: The continually widening circle of Dennis's sins is indicated by these recently discovered palindromes ...

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Enid and Edna sinned. 

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Eve, Enid and Edna sinned.

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Eva, Dave, Enid and Edna sinned.

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Eva, Dana, Ana, Dave, Enid and Edna sinned.

Authors' Note: The enhanced second slide in the above pair shows the poetic content in the form of only two palindromic phrases -- these are both 'magical palindromes'; indeed they are lengthy, but they allow the synthesis of ideas that would not otherwise be possible with regular paindromes. You can get up to speed on this intriguing wordplay variation by clicking HERE.   

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You can continue this astounding journey, exploring our new poetic form. Click below for the next yearly collection of posted palinkus (one each month), as available on this blog-site.

2023

  

(Alternatively, you could proceed to our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", where we have in a more casual manner, published these terse verses one-at-a-time, usually on the 17th day of each month.)

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

To resume your review of the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. 

As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

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.

Review of 'brief sagas' from 2022

 

 A NOTE from the EDITORS: 

 As readers may have gathered, these blogs highlight several types of light, wistful and humorous reflections on current life, chief among them  short verses using the limerick format, more or less (see the blogpost "Limerick Variations"). But on occasion, we feel the urge to continue important themes through several stanzas worth of poetic ideas. So in this post, we highlight the previous years' offerings of 'lengthier' poems of at least 15 lines or 3 stanzas. We have been publishing these at the rate of once a month on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", but as they are found mixed with shorter verses of 5 lines, i.e. standard limericks, or even 3 lines --palinku (palindromic haiku), you might have failed to notice and review them in their entirety. 

  This summary gives you a second chance to explore these lengthier creations that contain as many as 6 stanzas -- hardly lengthy enough to be considered a genuine saga, but we hope reflecting the authors' sagacity.  

  The compressed mode in which our 'sagas' are displayed may enhance your appreciation of the range of topics covered; if you prefer to enjoy the details in a larger and more readable font, you can quickly access the posts on this blog devoted uniquely to their stanza-by-stanza display (as well as notes, related photos and videos), by entering their title into the search lines provided. And from there, you can, of course, explore further to enjoy the multitude of shorter verses.  

CURRENT CONTENTS (from 2022)

Anglo-Latin                      Apr

Attribution: Ogden Nash Feb

Bequest                           Mar

Beri-beri                          Sep

Canada                            Jun

Careers                            Jul

Drug development          Jan

Echoic binomials             May

Hemianopsia                   Dec

Mar-a-lago                       Aug

Metabolic delirium          Oct

Palindrome workshop     Nov

 

For the curious reader's convenience, we have sorted our treasury of 'brief sagas' by the year of publication on this blog. Altogether, you will find more than 40 whimsical poems, that cover about 800 lines of verse. 

Click below, and enjoy!
2020
2021
2022

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As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

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.