American wordplay map: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N V-O-T-E-R-S, #2

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Aerial Chorus: WHAT'S UP?

CURRENT CONTENTS

Contrails and chemtrails
Eos 221 (Dawn's endless night)
Honk (geese in-formation)

 

Author's Note: In previous verses at OEDILF, there is a discussion of contrails, and of chemtrails. Conspiracy theories have been discussed at length with various interpretations, as seen here.

Author's Note: The asteroid known by astronomers as 221 Eos is apparently a large orbiting body with a diameter of over 100 km. It has a potential, should it strike the Earth, to bring about an extinction similar to that produced 60 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaur population.

  Like most heavenly bodies, this one was named after a figure from Greco-Roman mythology, Eos (Aurora), the Goddess of Dawn; the irony is apparent. Click HERE for another nonsensical poem about Aurora/Eos and learn more about the legend.

Author's Note: The author is thinking here of wild geese, like the Canada goose, taking a more favorable view than he did in an earlier verse that you can find HERE. The V-formation is characteristic of, but not unique to, flights of their flocks.

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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 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.

POETS' CORNER: third angle

 This blogpost is a continuation of verse from the collections 'POETS' CORNER', as posted on this blog March 5, 2022 (first angle), and March 5, 2023 (second angle). 

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

(first angle): addiction to limerick writing, authorly skill, blogosphere, bold faced/bald-faced, cans and can'ts (argumentatively), collaboration.

(second angle): creative writing, depressed limericist, doggerel ("brief sagas'), editorial balking, editorial state "Held", (the poet's) family.   

CURRENT CONTENTS (third angle)

Free verse
Gender-neutral language
inventiveness (palinkus)
Noun-verb contractions
Philosophy of limericks
Satirical doggerel

 

   

Authors' Note:  Avoidance of discriminatory gender-bias in language is an unassailable aim. 

   In the medical field, there are many terms which are problematic due to syllables that in written or spoken form make them seem suspect for such bias. Usually, however, this 'problem' is happenstance based on the incorporation of Greek root-words. Sometimes the level of comedy is reached, as in the near-homonym for the male possessive form in the term HYSterectomy' (surgical removal of the uterus). Other medical and non-medical terms with hidden gender-related messages as in the above verses are indicated by font colour.  

Authors' Note: In the above limerick verse, seven noun-verb contractions, each characteristically joining its two elements (a pronoun or noun, and a verb) with an apostrophe, are italicized in blue. But, don't be misled: other types of contractions also use the apostrophe, and these are flagged in red font. Aren't is of course a negative contraction, and one's is a possessive form. 

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, 'collaborative' refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.