Poems About Avian Life: BIRDLORE, nesting #4

    This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about 'LANDBIRDS', as posted on this blog on December 15, 2022 (nesting#1), December 15, 2023 (nesting #2), and December 15, 2024 (nesting #3).

previous poetic posts

(nesting #1): American goldfinches, birdfeeders, bird droppings, boat-tailed grackles, California scrub-jays, cattle egrets

(nesting #2) cedar waxwings, dawn chorus, de-snooding (domestic turkeys), eagles and eaglets, eastern towhees, house finches

(nesting #3): northern cardinals, pigeons, red-tailed hawks, red-winged blackbirds, robins, toucans.

CURRENT CONTENTS (nesting #4):

Tufted tit(mouse) 

Turkey lovers 

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

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

CURRENT CONTENTS (#4):

                     this verse has been approved for publication at OEDILF #128209

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. 

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

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "DOMESTIC TURKEY" by proceeding to our blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE. 

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

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "AVIAN DIGESTION" by proceeding to our blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE (link under construction)

(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". 

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Meet Our Panel of Contributing Palindromists

Meet The Panel of Submitting Palindromists for the “Anals of Nonsense”

Giorgio Coniglio

2 min read

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Nov 29, 2025

(inner workings of the editorial office)

INTRODUCTION:

Following the birth of the “Anals of Nonsense” (more formally known as “Daily Illustrated Nonsense”), editors were struck by the frequency with which members of the writing public submitted unsolicited lists of palindromic phrases, apparently hoping for publication of this material. The vast majority of this doggerel was submitted by six rather prolific contributors, and we have offered each of them an honorary but reversible position as “Assistant Editor for Palindromes”. We spent some time tabulating their outpourings, and came up with these summaries that we hope will provide some insight into their predilections and their personalities.

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Don’s Ho

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Sarah Palindrome

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Melonia

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Ed, the Derailed Liar

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Hal Lelujah

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Terse Reverse

In a more defined protocol, we have asked each of these contributors, at intervals, to respond to a particular classic palindrome. Medium readers will be among the first to see these astounding results — stay tuned!

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PATIENTS and their MALADIES, part #5

 

 This post is a continuation of 'PATIENTS and their MALADIES, as posted on this blog August 15, 2021 (part#1),  August 15, 2022 (part #2),  August 15, 2023 (part #3), and August 15, 2024 (part #4).

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

(part#1): amblyopia, bph (benign prostatic hypertrophy), brain symptoms (post-concussion), common cold, Conn's syndrome (aldosterone excess), claudication.

(part#2): diabetes insipidus, dyspareunia, eye discharge, flu-like symptoms, ganglion cysts, gluten sensitivity.

(part #3): Graves disease, gynophobia, hemorrhoids, hemiplegia, hives, hoarding disorder.

(part #4): knee effusion, lichen sclerosus, male infertility, nervous bladder, -omas, pica.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#5)
polyps, colonic
vitreous detachment

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BINOMIAL EXPRESSIONS, fourth set of examples

 

   This post is a continuation of a collection of verses dealing with the grammatic device of 'BINOMIALS' derived from individual poems posted on 'Daily Illustrated Nonsense'. These collections, usually involving six entities each, have been grouped for display here on August 5, 2022 (first set of examples), August 5, 2023 (second set), and August 5, 2024 (third set). 

Editors' Note:  Before proceeding to these displays of short verses, readers might benefit from reviewing an earlier post entitled Edification about Word-Pairs: "The Binomials", A Linguistic Lesson.

titles of previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" after January, 2024).

(first set): betwixt and between, bigger and bigger, birds and bees, bump and grind, by hook or by crook, down and out.  

(second set): far and wide (hives), first and last, flora and fauna, flotsam and jetsam, food and drink, hale and hearty.

(third set): hem and haw, here and there, high and dry, hug and kiss, poop and scoop,  publish or perish.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#4)

Right or wrong

Sin and redemption

Echoic binomials (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Healthy, wealthy and wise (a trinomial)

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 . 

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "Echoic Binomials" by proceeding to our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE.

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DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #6

    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), and July 15, 2024 (sextet#5).

previous poetic posts:previous poetic posts (note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" in slide format since January, 2024).

(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.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#6):
Hostility
Hot
Hourly
Housewife
Humorless
Inveigle

(For continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note:   As the hour is one of the most commonly used measure of time, fitting well with the time-frame of daily human activities, it is used more often in a general than in a scientific or precise sense. Examples of this usage include the appointed hour and happy hour. The derived adverb hourly shares this attribute.

For more "defining opinions", please proceed to the seventh sextet by clicking  HERE.

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Reprehensible MODERN HISTORY: first 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 posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of January, 2024).

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Cantankerous leaders

Clannishness

Confederate states (US)

Crimean War

Democracy (18th century version)

Emperor of Elba

Authors' Note: More than 150 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the role of the Confederacy continues to generate high emotions.

Further enlightenment on this topic can be obtained by viewing a post entitled "Able Ere Elba". Click HERE.

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).

SUBMARINE WARFARE - didactic material

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

You can read all about this in three informative blogposts on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (here, here, and here), or you could enjoy a song about nuclear submarines during the Cold War by clicking HERE.  

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

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CURRENT CONTENTS:
Cantankerous leaders

Clannishness

Confederate states

Crimean War

Democracy (18th century version)

Emperor of Elba

Franco-German (Cannes of Worms)

Italo-Turkish war

Submarine warfare (Charleston SC)

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

  

Authors' Note: More than 150 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the role of the Confederacy continues to generate high emotions.

Further enlightenment on this topic can be obtained by viewing a post entitled "Able Ere Elba". Click HERE.

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