DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #7

    This post is a continuation of 'DEFINING OPINIONS', as posted on this blog on July 15, 2020 (sextet#1), July 15, 2021 (sextet#2), July 15, 2022 (sextet#3), July 15, 2023 (sextet#4), July 15, 2024 (sextet#5), and July 15, 2025 (sextet#6).

previous poetic posts (note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" after 2025).

(sextet#1): academically, birdlife, boring, crepuscular, cruddy, decompose. 

(sextet#2): diaphoretic, envision, expertise, fester, hamuli, haunch.

(sextet#3): heinous, hoarding, hod, holdout, hole#1, hole#2

(sextet#4): holler, hollow, homogenized milk, hone, honey, honorifics.

(sextet#5): hooey, hoot, hopeful, hormones, hors d'oeuvres, hose.

(sextet#6): hostility, hot, hourly, housewife, humorless, inveigle.

CURRENT CONTENTS (sextet#7):
Limerick
Multiple Myeloma
Post-mortem exam
Quintessence
Smut

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NATIONAL (and multinational) Verse

CURRENT CONTENTS: (note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" after 2025).
Armenia

Greenland

Haiti

la Francophonie

Iceland

Panama (Canal Zone)

Canada (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

France (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

America (USA - 3 stanzas, a 'brief saga') 

Authors' Note:

neurasthenia: obsolete term from psychiatry, implying general debility attributed to exhaustion of the nervous system, as discussed here

Armenia, the first country in the world to adopt Christianity, has had disputes with its neighbors for most of its existence. The revered Mt. Ararat is now located geopolitically in Turkey, but is still considered a national symbol of Armenia, and dominates the view from the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Armenia's borders to the east and west currently remain closed owing to hostile relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Authors' Note: This verse, along with Canal Zone (to follow) and fifty-first (preceding) constitutes a trilogy of diplomatic nonsense.

As of 2024, Greenland, with population of 56,000, is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Authors' Note: The plight of Haiti, and some of its earlier history, are described in an OEDILF verse by speedysnail  

Authors' Note: Late in 2024, the incumbent US president turned his attention from Canada, a friendly neighbour that he had threatened with massive tariffs, dangling the possibility of a sort of "Anschluss".

His sudden announcement that "excessive" shipping fees across the Panama Canal were a matter of vital national US interest was accompanied by threats to retake control of the Canal Zone, a region that had been under sole Panamanian control since 1979.

The author of the above poem in his prior work acclaim had discussed the role of President Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.) in construction of the Panama Canal, therein revealing the neo-palindrome A man, a plan, if final — Panama.

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

(Note that the four 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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Reprehensible MODERN HISTORY: second set of unpleasantries

 

This blogpost is a collection of brief poems tainted with negative view of modern developments.   This post represents material from our first emanation on this topic, "reprehensible modern history",  part #1 (July 5, 2025). 

previous poetic postings (note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" after 2025).

(first set of unpleasantries): cantankerous leaders, clannishness. confederate states, Crimean war, democracy (18th C version), Emperor of Elba.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#2):

Franco-German (Cannes of Worms)

Italo-Turkish war

Sheep in Britain

Submarine warfare (Charleston SC)

Broken Arrow (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note:

nachbarlich (NAKH-bahr-likh): neighborly 

l'après-guerre (la-preh-GAYR): period immediately after the Second World War in France, approximately 1945-1948

Cannes (KAN): French town on the Côte d'Azur, famous for its luxury hotels and villas, and for its international film festival

Worms (VORMZ): German town (sometimes pronounced by anglophones as WUHRMZ) of about the same size as Cannes and Limerick, famed for its production of liebfraumilch 

Authors' Note: The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, 1911–1912, was among the neo-colonial adventures pushed by the European powers (Britain, France, Italy, etc.) who took advantage of the decline of Ottoman Turkey just before the outbreak of the First World War. The territories conquered by the Italians (most of current-day Libya and also the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea) remained under their control through the Second World War, with Mussolini's National Fascist party in power in the Kingdom of Italy for most of this period (1922–1943).

The treaty to end the conflict was named after the resort facility in Lausanne, Switzerland at which it was signed by the belligerents, becoming known as the Treaty of Ouchy (oo-SHEE).

SHEEP IN BRITAIN

'Til the 17th C, Britons reap

Productivity based in their sheep.

And then factories and mining

Brought about redefining. 

But the cost to change cloth isn't cheap.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

SUBMARINE WARFARE - didactic material

Charleston, South Carolina played a disproportionate role in the development and deployment of submarines in warfare. 

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WATERFOWL, seventh flocking

 

    This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about WATERFOWL' as posted on this blog on June 10, 2020 (flocking#1), June 10, 2021 (flocking#2), June 10, 2022 (flocking#3), June 10, 2023 (flocking#4), June 10, 2024 (flocking#5), and June 10, 2025 (flocking#6).

previous poetic posts

(flocking#1): American white ibis, anhinga, awkward great auk, birder, black-capped night heron, black skimmer. 

(flocking#2): brown pelican (Caribbean), brown pelican (revisited), Canada goose, double-crested cormorant, Egyptian goose, feral ducks. 

(flocking#3): flightless seabirds, gallinule (marsh hen), great blue heron, great egret, habitat, hooded merganser.

(flocking#4): juvenile night heron, laughing gull, little blue heron, loon, mallard duck, muscovy duck. 

(flocking#5): mute swan, oystercatcher, the "pelicatessen", pescatarian, roseate spoonbill, ruddy turnstone. 

(flocking#6): seabird feeders, snow goose, snowy egret, tricolored hern, trumpeter swan.

CURRENT CONTENTS (flocking#7):
Willets
Wood ducks
Wood storks
Yellow-crowned night herons
A loon's life (3 verses, a 'brief saga')
Cormorant rookery (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

   

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Poetic NON-SEQUITURS, fifth grouping

 This blogpost is a continuation of 'POETIC NON-SEQUITURS, as posted on this blog May 15, 2022 (first grouping), May 15, 2023 (second grouping, May 15, 2024 (third grouping), and May 15, 2025 (fourth grouping).

previous poetic posts

(first grouping): adolescence, almost Kosher, artistic weightlifting, bush plane, charity auction, close quarters.

(second grouping): cumulative songs, demolition, dishwasher, doggy bag, epistaxis, ESL. 

(third grouping): far-flung family, gavel (judge's), gifted children, greeting (Spanish), ground down, having the audacity.

(fourth grouping): hoggishly, horticultural, host and co-host, Hoyle,Edmond, latitude (changes), mallards at the swimming pool. 

CURRENT CONTENTS (fifth grouping)

Prodigious
Professor and Madman

Rebuttal
Secret life of plants
Talking heads
Victims of bullying

Authors' Note: "The Secret Life of Plants", 1973, was a controversial piece of 'non-fiction' that recounted controversial experiments that pointed to plant sentience and emotion. The book became the basis for a documentary film, and even inspired a music album by a well-known popular singer/musician in 1979. Considerable criticism arose from its then-trendy pseudoscientific claims based on non-replicable reports. Subsequently, aspects of how plants, including vegetable species, sense and react to environmental changes, have undergone more intense and sober investigation by academic botanists.

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