Poetic NON-SEQUITURS #3

 This blogpost is a continuation of material developed for prior blog-posts, each grouping a collection of verses, entitled "Poetic Non-Sequiturs #1" and "Poetic NON-SEQUITURS #2". 

previous posted poems (#1)
almost kosher

autophagia

bush plane

charity auction

close quarters

cumulative songs

demolition

dishwasher

previous posted poems (#2)

doggy bag

epistaxis

ESL (W-I-P)

far-flung family

gavel (judge's)

gifted children

having the audacity

hoggishly

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Horticultural

Host and co-host

Hoyle, Edmond

Latitude (changes in)

Obstruction of justice

Old prospector

Professor and Madman

Secret life of plants

Victims of bullying

Author's Note: 

arrangement of florists: proposed collective noun for this occupational grouping.

Authors' Note: 

according to Hoyle: an idiom alluding to Edmond Hoyle's books as the ultimate authority on the rules of social games, particularly cardgames such as whist

There are few verifiable details of the early life of Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769). As a tutor in parlour games, he published A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist at the age of 70. Other books of rules followed, primarily involving card games, but also chess and probability theory. Hoyle died at age 97 in London, England, prior to the popularization of today's most common games such as poker and contract bridge. 

Authors' Note: The 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett contained a song of the same title, as well as his most popular hit "Margaritaville".

With holiday season travel plans, and snowbirds' escapes to more appealing climes disrupted by the severe December weather in the winter of 2022, J.B.'s advice has more relevance. And the authors express gratitude to their female partner who has made arrangements for the appropriate seasonal migration.

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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Poems About Avian Life: BIRDLORE, part #3

 previous poetic posts

(part #1)
American goldfinches
birdfeeders
bird droppings
California scrub-jays
cattle egrets
cedar waxwings
dawn chorus
de-snooding (domestic turkeys)

(part #2)

eagles and eaglets

eastern towhees

house finches

pigeons

red-tailed hawks

red-winged blackbirds

robins

toucans

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Tufted tit(mouse)

Turkey lovers 

Avian digestion (6 verses; a 'brief saga')

Domestic turkeys (3 verses; a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: The tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, a small cute bird that inhabits the eastern part of North America is named for the crest of feathers on his head, and for old English words for "little bird". Other species of Baeopholus are found in North America, and there are related genera of songbirds known as "titmice" in Europe. The archaic suffix "-mouse" currently adds little to the description of this perky visitor, so he is often known simply as a "tufted tit".

Check out a brief video (live photo) of the tufted titmouse HERE. 

 

(Ed. note) If you enjoyed these illustrated verses about landbirds, you might also want to work your way through our collection of some forty illustrated short poems about waterfowl. Proceed to "Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl", here on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

ADDITIONAL PHOTO-COLLAGES: 

Turkey in our Subdivision, Mt. Pleasant SC

Turkey on the Roof, Berkeley CA

"Portraits of Couples": domestic turkeys, domestic French geese, Harris hawks, emus, toucans.

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More Collected "LIMERRHOIDS" (oversized limericks with C-rhyme extensions)

 The contentious concept of extending limerick verses by adding a pair of C-line rhymes (and occasionally even D-line rhymes) to the standard A- and B-line rhymes was introduced by the prophetic work of Irish limericist Seamus O'Malley, as discussed in a blogpost HERE. 

  To assist readers' further understanding of this issue, the extension results in an elegant non-standard 7-line verse, which we have called a "LIMERRHOID". One should take care, however, as not all 7-line limericks are the result of applying O'Malley's modification. Care must be taken not to confuse this process with the less rigorous addition of extra A- or B-rhyme lines, that result in a "Run-On Limerick".

  In a follow-up post, HERE, we displayed our earlier work on the limerrhoid as disciples of O'Malley. Much to our surprise, we have prevailed over skeptical critics and editors at the collaborative website OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), with  completion of their rigorous editing process, and online publication of most of the limerrhoids in this earlier opus. 

  In the current post, we are displaying some of our more recent work on limerrhoids on a variety of topics. For the most part , these have not yet (February 2024) completed the process of rigorous multi-editor review at OEDILF, but we will note below as developments occur.   

final approval for poetry publication at the OEDILF collaborative writing site:

(at time of compilation, Feb 2024):    Zeus see Suez  (classic palindrome)

                                                       malignant tumors (oncologic verse)

Mar 2024:   distant (urban issues)

                  anachronistically (creative anachronisms)

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