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 (#7):
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 (flocking#1), June 10, 2021 (flocking#2), June 10, 2022 (flocking#3), June 10, 2023 (flocking#4), June 10, 2024 (flocking#5), and June 10, 2025 (flocking#6).

previous poetic posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

CURRENT CONTENTS (#7):
Willets
Wood ducks
Wood storks
Yellow-crowned night herons
A loon's life (3 verses, a 'brief saga')
Cormorant rookery (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

   

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BIDIRECTIONAL: classic wordplay, palindromes#7

 

    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), April 5, 2023 (palindromes#4), April 5, 2024 (palindromes#5), and April 5, 2025 (palindromes#6).

previous poetic posts

(palindromes#1): Able ere Elba. A Santa at NASA. 

(palindromes#2): d, e, e, f, h, h.

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

(palindromes#4): h, h, h, h, h, h.

(palindromes#5): Mix a maxim. Mr Owl ate my metal worm. Never odd or even. No 'D' no 'L' -- London. No left felon. No lemon, no melon.

(palindromes#6): No sir, prison. No 'X' in 'Nixon'. Racecar. Saw- and see- lines. Sex at noon taxes. sex of foxes. Step on no pets.  

CURRENT CONTENTS (#7):

T. Eliot's toilet
To idiot:
Too hot to hoot
UFO tofu
Yreka bakery
Zeus sees Suez

Authors' Note:

Sir; a plan, if final — Paris.

  In December 2015, the United States, under President Barack Obama, became a part of the Paris Accord, an international convention to mitigate the effects of climate change by curtailing production of greenhouse gases.

  In June 2017, President Donald Trump, whose personal business depended in large part on the construction and operation of golf-resorts, proceeded to withdraw from the treaty.

  Immediately after his inauguration in January 2021, President Joe Biden took measures to rejoin the accord.

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Anthropomorphic and Human BAR-FAUNA, second round

 

 This post is a continuation of 'BAR-FAUNA, as posted on this blog January 15, 2025 (part#1).

previous poetic posts
(first round) ark's bar, FUBAR/snafu), Gary the gator, Hamlet's ghostly dream, lack of enlightment, lizards' lair.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#2)

Loon's flight

Medical watering hole

Monster-bar 
Mule

Organic bar 
Sober October 
Underground bar

Authors' Note: dietary: (DYE-eh-t'ree, as here, or DYE-uh-tay-ree): a hospital department best known for producing meal trays to be distributed to in-patients.

 This verse is dedicated to the proposition that bars located near hospitals may be viewing-places of partiular interest. And yes! Dr. Korn is likely the medical centre's sole specialist-practitioner in his area of interest.

Authors' Note:  The golem, an entity from Jewish folklore, is likely the least well-known of the supernatural beings participating in this story. Made entirely of inanimate matter, e.g. mud or clay, this sizable being can classically be either a victim or villain, and connote hope or despair. In more recent popular culture, it refers to any crude automaton devised by a sorcerer.

Although she apparently has few close friends, “Nessie” is a nickname for Scotland’s famed Loch Ness monster.

Authors' Note: A mule, formerly known as a buck, makes a wonderful mixed drink on a very hot day. Its key ingredients are ginger beer (ideally the opaque soapy extract bottled in the Caribbean), citrus juice (most often freshly squeezed lime), and a variety of liquors. In the concoction’s most common form, the Moscow mule, vodka is used as the source of alcohol.

 

Author's Note: This verse, borrowed from OEDILF, deals with seasonal underage drinking on the Canadian prairies; click HERE.