DEC 20 '25: Meet Our Panel of Contributing Palindromists [7]

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

Giorgio Coniglio

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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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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 the key elements, such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres, also has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

DEC 15 (2025): Avian Life: BIRDLORE, nestings #4 [5]

    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

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

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

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

CURRENT CONTENTS (nesting #4):

Toucans

Tufted tit(mouse) 

Turkey lovers 

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

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

                     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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As of March, 2026, 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.

DEC 10 (2025): NUMBERS and COUNTING, third set [4]

 

 This blogpost is a continuation of 'NUMBERS and COUNTING, as posted on this blog December 10, 2023 (first set),  and December 10, 2024 (second set).

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

(first set): zero, unity, twins, duals, trio, foursome (quartet)

(second set): pentagons, sextet, sevens (hebdo), octane, nine/ninety-nine. 

CURRENT CONTENTS: (third set -- Dec 10, 2025)
Digits (base ten)
Eleven
A dozen
Baker's dozen  

DEC 5 (2025) ONCOLOGY, second growths [3]

 

This blogpost represents continuation of earlier posts, entitled  'STAVING OFF NEOPLASIA: ONCOLOGY VERSES, first growths', displayed on December 5, 2024. 

prior posted poems (first growths) 
 benign tumors, malignant tumors, cancerophobia, Patt's adenoma image-guided biopsy.

CURRENT CONTENTS: (seond growths)

Hem-oncologists
Frei's syndrome (facial nerve palsy)

Hybrid PET-CT imaging for cancer

Authors' Note:   Absorption of rays by body tissues complicates the interpretation of medical imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In equipment development since the year 2000, 'hybrid' scanners combine the nuclear camera with a CT x-ray unit that provides maps of attenuation; this technique for correction of attenuation (known to workers in the field as A.C.), makes PET more accurate in the detection of cancer. A potential limitation, the much lower energy of the photons used for x-ray CT, turns out to have little degrading effect in practical usage.

   Moreover, anatomic localization of the lesion can be obtained at the same session, enabling techniques such as superposition of the ‘hot’ focus on a 3D anatomic body-map. This technique has been given  the difficult and somewhat redundant term ‘PET-CT’.

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 200 of these!) on medical/dental topics, updated to December 2024. 

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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.

NOV 15 (2025): Adventures of Leslie Moore: SUFFIXES (addendum #2) [4]

 

This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about 'SUFFIXES' as initially displayed on this blog on November 15, 2024 (addendum #1).

previous poetic posts

(addendum #1):atonelessness, categorically, fecklessness, gallingly, helpfully, loneliness.

CURRENT CONTENTS (addendum #2):

Loveliness

Meaningfully

Youthfulness

(linguistically -- 4 stanzas, a 'brief saga').

Authors' Note: The dove is often used a symbol of peace or pacifism; contrarily, the hawk is used as a symbol of those with a propensity for war or violence.

"An iron fist (hand) in a velvet glove" is a well-known idiom portraying hawks who hide behind a more dove-like appearance or demeanour.

Authors' Note: The Yiddish loanword bupkes literally means "beans", but is figuratively applied to items or concepts that are worthless.

NOV 10 (2025): HIGHER CONNECTIONS [5]

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Monarchs

Great chain of being

Haredim

Gnosticism

Wannabe autocrat

Authors' Note: Originally conceived by Plato and Aristotle as a construct to explain the universe, the Great Chain of Being, known in Latin as scala naturae, organized all beings and matter in a hierarchy, descending from heavenly powers through humans, animals, plants and minerals. 

   In medieval times, the concept was expanded as a rationale for the Divine Right of Kings, and to deny unapproved social mobility.

                                                                   final approval at OEDILF #122314, November 2023

Authors' Note:        (khah-ray-DEEM)
Various groups of strictly Orthodox or haredi Jews represent an expanding demographic in Israel, assembling in particular neighborhoods (such as the suburbs of Jerusalem) where they carry out their lifestyle, rejecting and disdaining the secular environment, preferring a world characterized by observance of laws derived from the Torah (Bible). Their traditional dress reflects the groups' roots in 19th century Ashkenazi religious communities in eastern Europe. The name (the plural noun form) originates from a biblical reference to those who tremble at the word of God.

With large families (averaging 7 children per female), these groups made up 4% of Israeli citizens in 1980, and 13% in 2021.

Authors' note: 

gnostic: adjective derived from the Greek noun gnosis; pertaining to or possessing spiritual knowledge or insight

Authors' Note:  Peer has two meanings that are in conflict with each other at times. (1) "equal in rank", the basis of the adjective peerless, meaning unparalleled in quality. (2) particularly in Britain, a member of the nobility, as in "peers and peeresses are members of the peerage". In this case, the wannabe imagines that all flatterers would be rewarded with aristocratic titles.

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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 the key elements, such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres, also has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.