DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #7

    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), July 15, 2024 (sextet#5), and July 15, 2025 (sextet#6).

previous poetic posts

(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.

(sextet#6): hostility, hot, hourly, housewife, humorless, inveigle.

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Limerick
Multiple Myeloma
Post-mortem exam
Quintessence
Smut

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WATERFOWL, seventh flocking

 

    This post is a continuation of a collection of verses about WATERFOWL', as posted on this blog on June 10, 2020 (sextet#1), June 10, 2021 (sextet#2), June 10, 2022 (sextet#3), June 10, 2023 (sextet#4), June 10, 2024 (sextet#5), and June 1o, 2025 (sextet#6).

previous poetic posts

(sextet#1): American white ibis, anhinga, awkward great auk, birder, black-capped night heron, black skimmer. 

(sextet#2): brown pelican (Caribbean), brown pelican (revisited), Canada goose, double-crested cormorant, Egyptian goose, feral ducks. 

(sextet#3): flightless seabirds, gallinule (marsh hen), great blue heron, great egret, habitat, hooded merganser.

(sextet#4): juvenile night heron, laughing gull, little blue heron, loon, mallard duck, muscovy duck. 

t#5): mute swan, oystercatcher, the "pelicatessen", pescatarian, roseate spoonbill, ruddy turnstone. 

(sextet#6): seabird feeders, snow goose, snowy egret, tricolored hern, trumpeter swan.

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Wood duck

Wood stork

Yellow capped night heron

Feb 28, 2026: EDITORIAL NOTICE

 

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Regrettably, for the same reasons, further regular posting of new material on the current topic-based blog ("Edifying Nonsense") will also be drawing to a close , with sporadic exceptions. There will be some polishing and rearranging going on in the background (we have a few 'postholes' to fill in). Hence, it may still be worth your while to return and explore, to satisfy your yearning for funky humor and erudition. Thanks for your indulgence!

As time goes on, our creative impulses will be directed primarily at the song-lyric blog "Silly Songs and Satire". It already offers almost 200 songs with parody-lyrics, and accompanying chord suggestions for stringed instruments such as ukulele. 

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