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

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MAR 15 (2024): AMBULATION, excursion #1 [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS
pre-amble
amble

climb
escape
falter
hasten

Authors' Note: The above verse is proposed as a companion verse to other submisions about ambulation. 

poetry lyrics:/  When folks amble, their effort is placed/ At revoking
 disruption and haste./ So meander or saunter/ As a casual jaunter./
 "Not to trot" is the mantra embraced,/ As you stroll at a lesiurely pace.  

Authors' Note:  Hot to trot is an intriguing established idiom, as reflected by its many tribute-verses, such as this one. Not to trot, a variant employed in the above verse's final line, has received considerably less attention.

Authors' Note:  Although the difference is no longer well demarcated, wiggling originally implied movement in place without forward momentum, as in squirm, twist or jiggle. Wriggling, like the directionally motivated activities crawling and tunnelling, may be the ambulatory technique to choose when escape from entrapment is needed.

poetry lyrics:/ Ambulation? You're rushed, in a hurry -- / Variations abound,

 so don't worry:/ Hustled, hastened and speeded,/ Streak or hurtle where needed,/

 By dint of a sprint or a scurry.  

If you have enjoyed rambling through these verses, you could venture to undertake a second outing; click HERE for part #2. 

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".

MAR 5 (2024): POETS' CORNER, third angle [5]

 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
 

   

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. 

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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.