American wordplay map: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N V-O-T-E-R-S, #3

 

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APR 15 (2024): Progress in Poetry: TERMINAL EXCLAMATIONS: final call #1 [6]

 This blogpost will give you more understanding and some helpful examples related to a type of  limerick-variation indulged in by the authors. To see the whole spectrum of our efforts, you might want to take the time to review "A Corner of the Poet's World: LIMERICK VARIATIONS".

CURRENT CONTENTS

ANYTHING BUT!

CAN'T COMPLAIN!

DON'T TOUCH!

EGAD!

HOLY MOLY!

I'M SOLD!

 Authors' Note: This verse with its three patrons and a blustering bartender would fit in with other verses in the collection "Bar-Fauna"

 Authors' Note: The fabric artist's work is discussed in a photo-collage HERE.

 Authors' Note: The author apologizes that the above verse conjures a nightmare of sado-masochistic behavior. It must be admitted, however, that the sensitive dominatrix and the vengeful masochist do not fit the stereotypes (see the relevant poem by SheilaB.) 

Also, from a poetic standpoint, as the verse incorporates an "extra" B-rhyming couplet in its middle, it would be classified as an internal limerrhoid rather than as a limerick. 

Egad, no bondage! and Egad, a bad age! are found in lists of classic palindromic phrases.

                                       

Authors' Note: Our protagonist, presumably a Canadian snowbird in the Carolina lowcountry, can take little comfort in the higher values of Fahrenheit than Celsius temperatures. The temperature is what it is; only the describing numbers differ, although they are precisely related. It is noted that below -40 degrees, the ascribed Celsius number is higher (but not warmer) than Fahrenheit.

The above verse was written on a brisk January morning when the temperature in degrees was -12C (10F) in Toronto, -10C (14F) in Atlanta, and 11C (52F) in Miami.

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APR 10 (2024): Collected "LIMERRHOIDS" (oversized limericks with C-rhyme extensions)

EXPLANATORY INTRODUCTION 

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 apocryphal 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 that earlier post, we displayed our work on the limerrhoid as disciples of O'Malley. We used as illustrative examples 7-line verses entitled "Hoggishly", "Grift", "Helicobacter pylori" and "Edmond Hoyle", as well as 9-line verses entitled "Cleaning Services" and "The Hoarder". To our surprise, we  prevailed over skeptical critics and editors at the collaborative on-line website OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), with progress through their rigorous editing process, and eventual publication.

   The outlines cumulated below allow you to see that we have followed up this earlier work with further verses characterized by having C-rhyme extension and generally 7 lines (occasionally 8 or 9) per stanza. The individual verses can be more readily seen, i.e. with larger font, and are accompanied by authors' notes as blog posts on the searchable companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".  

More 7-line verses of the "limerrhoid"-type that have been recently concocted are grouped for you in another collection HERE.

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APR 10 (2024): DEATH and the afterlife #1 [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Cardiac arrest

Decease in the crease

Dining in Heaven

End-of-life care

Garbage in Heaven

Giving up the ghost

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note:   Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the major cause of sudden otherwise-unexplained death.  This emergency demands chest compression as well as other resuscitative maneuvers by trained lay standers-by, ambulance workers and emergency room staff. Unfortunately, the ultimate success rate of such resuscitative measures in this setting remains quite low. 

Authors' Note: In hockey, an assist is recognition awarded to a player who passes the puck to the goal-scorer at a key point in play. A sudden death system for resolving the winner in games tied at the end of regulation play has generally been used in organized hockey since its inception. The (goal) crease is an area demarcated by colored ice directly in front of the goal line where the goalie (goalkeeper) is not to be interfered with by attackers.

Although professional hockey has been the undisputed domain of males, more and more women are participating in Canada's national sport as amateurs and international competitors.

 Authors' Note: In this verse, the authors fantasize that a throw-away free tabloid in Heaven, providing a list of scheduled events, would be named for the "heavenly host". To learn more about this grouping of celestial beings, refer to our verse in the collection "Creative Anachronisms" by clicking HERE.

Authors' Note: My partner's sweet apple pie is 'to die for', and so is the strawberry pie pictured above..

Authors' Note: In some jurisdictions, all deaths in a long-term nursing facility must be reported to the office of the coroner.

Authors' Note: You may have gathered that the editors think that Heaven is a bureaucracy-ridden place. So, of course, as a resident there you may have to fill out a lot of documentation to obtain permission to import Earthworms and related paraphernalia.

 

Authors' Note: My partner's sweet apple pie is 'to die for', and so is the strawberry pie pictured above..

The editors have been besieged with requests for more poems on this topic, so you can proceed, if you like, to "Death and the Afterlife #2".

APR 5 (2024): REVERSING VERSE, classic wordplay, palindromes #5

 

    This post is a continuation of 'CLASSIC BIDIRECTIONAL WORDPLAY', as posted on this blog on April 5, 2020 (palindromes#1), April 5, 2021 (palindromes#2), April 5, 2022 (palindromes#3), and April 5, 2023 (palindromes#4).  

previous poetic posts

(palindromes#1): A dim 'No' from Ida. A man, a plan, a canal... A Santa at NASA. A Toyota's a Toyota. Able ere Elba. An igloo!Cool, Gina! 

(palindromes#2): Dennis sinned. Do geese see God? Dogma: I am God. Drawn onward. Emil's lime.

(palindromes#3): h, h, h, h, h, h.

(palindromes#4):  Flee to me, remote elf. Gnu dung. Go hang a salami... Lonely Tylenol. Madam, I'm Adam. Mix a maxim. 

CURRENT CONTENTS (#5):

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.

Never odd or even.
No 'D', no 'L' -- London.
No left felon.
No lemon, no melon.

No sir, prison.

Authors' Note: Apparently a few felons are politicians, and vice versa.

For more "classic palindromes", please proceed to the sixth bidirectional journey by clicking  HERE.