JAN (2020), submitted palindromes #1

 

  Each month, followers of this blog will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their bio-profiles are indicated in panels published HERE at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". 

Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s). Generally these random piles will be published on the 25th of each month.

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 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 their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog. 

Political palindromes, A - D

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. G.H. have prioritized poliical satire and wordplay on this blog since its inception in 2016. 
  Today's verses have also been published at OEDILF.com
(Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), an online humor dictionary website that has accumulated over 120,000 limericks, including over 900 that we have submitted (to date, i.e. December 2024, 820 have been finally published following their customary rigorous editing process). The OEDILFian code number for the completed submission is indicated at the bottom of each of our slides. 

Incidentally, artwork including photos, as well as the poetry are the creation of this blog's author-editors (i.e. Dr.G. and Giorgio) unless otherwise indicated.  With respect to the particular wordplay honoured here, the original 'inventors' of the classic palindromes have generally not been reported, and are best regarded as having been lost in the sands of time.

political palindromes, A - D

 These palindromes were selected to display the simplest type of palindrome construction. A word such as 'debut', that creates an alternate English word when the letters are read in reverse order, is sometimes waggishly referred to as a 'SEMORDNILAP'. In any case, full speed ahead (ignore the punctuation)!

These palindromic phrases have a hinge-point unpaired letter in the very middle, e.g. the "T in 'TRAIL' in the first example. The hingepoint is the only letter that is not reflected by its mate in the opposite wing of the structure; and the total number of letters in such examples is always odd (e.g. 9 letters for 'liar trail'). Again, the punctuation is to be downplayed.  

From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.

In a third format for palindromic phrases, the dividing point between the two symmetric wings is a space between repeated letters in the middle of a word. This format is shown above with a vertical line for obses|ses and op|position; as with the hingepoint single letter in the middle of a word (like the 'v' in uneven), there is considerable puzzlement in understanding how these phrases can be constructed. Remember, that in any case, you will do best to ignore any punctuation.

Authors' Note: Any collection of palindromes, such as the above assemblage, is likely to present a mix of the various architectural formats discussed so far. 

From this point, you can proceed forward only.
For FORWARD, proceed to the next set (E to G)of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES'. 

Author's Note: The palindromes in this series have mostly been concocted recently. Some of them had first been displayed in one of our blogposts in 2017. Note that the author believes that wordplay derivations such as palindromes and anagrams are not 'invented', but merely 'reported' by canny observers, and some of today's offerings have been copied from others' reports as well as from the blog-author's earlier work. 

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 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 their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

Danger-Filled Verses: DOMESTIC HAZARDS

WORDPLAY POST #202
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio and Dr. GH, August 2019. These verses have also been web-published at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 110,000 carefully edited limerick verses.

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other song formats on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

Learn more about this topic on the web at these sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/08/01/researchers-break-up-dirty-fatberg-problem-with-new-technique-to-treat-fats-oil-and-grease.html

Learn more about this topic on the web at these sites:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-241

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"LANGUAGE ROCK" : Chubby Checker's Singable Update of the Poem "THE CHAOS" by G.N.Trenité

WORDPLAY POST #32
PASTICHE-POETRY in SINGABLE FORMAT.

ORIGINAL POEM:   "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité , 1920. 

SONG LINK: See "post #79" on "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2015.

Original version of the poem "The Chaos"

“The Chaos” is a poem written by the Dutch writer and English-teacher Gerard Nolst Trenité as a comment on the difficulty of English pronunciation. The work was published by the author in various versions (of increasing length) over the period 1920 to 1944; it has frequently appeared unattributed with some re-editing.

NOTES ON THE UPDATING (per G.C.):
I have made changes quite liberally in the poem in adapting it, including 1) removing lines with dated language, 2) giving priority to American rather than British pronunciation,  3) changing the politically-incorrect context with the implied female character now serving as the language expert as well as the inspiration,  4) creating some thematic stanzas based on the subject matter of the targeted orthographic difficulties, and 5) adding a final stanza to emphasize the learner's problem of accenting the correct syllable.

Most importantly, the work has been made singable, including a touch of Caribbean lilt in relation to the ORIGINAL SONG, "Limbo Rock", as recorded, 1962, by Chubby Checker. See Giorgio's version of the song, "Chaos Talk" by clicking at the songlink.

Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenite, 1870-1946

LANGUAGE ROCK 
(Singable Revision of G.N.Trenite's "The Chaos")

Greatest creature God create -

Teacher, please enunciate.

Show how sounds should auscultate

Make my head to oscillate.

Heat up versions in your verse

Words like corpse, corps, horse, hoarse, hearse

Tear in eye, tear dress and worse

Tersely parse, or pierce your purse.

History of a billet-doux  -

Dizzy mystery to me, Sue

Why a busy quasi-poet

On excuse like me do dote

It's enough, you found in jiff

I'm not into petroglyphs,

Aural word-play that you wrote

Oar or ore, rose, rows my boat.

Fair seer, swear, I fear compare

Health, heard; here’s my heartfelt prayer,

Sword and Britain, sweaty mitt

Seems so foreign, how it's writ

'Bidded' better said then 'bade'?

Play-played, bad, pay-paid, laid plaid.

I'll be careful how I speak,

Like: brush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak.

Ballot matches not ballet,

Wallet, mallet (for croquet).

Blood and wood are not good food

Nor is mould like cowed or mooed.

Diet, dies, alive, grieve, live

Wounded, rounded, ivy, sieve

Privy, famous, clamor, damn!

Rhymes with private rhythm, clam.

Allow hallowed, said aloud

People, leopard, snowed, plowed, proud

Fatal channel and banal

Promise and surprise canal

Monkey, donkey, chalk, cork, jerk

Ask, grasp, wasp and work or shirk

Doctrine, asinine, pristine

Mouth, youth, southern, cleanse lens clean.

One, won, only, onion, owe

Two, canoe, too often throw
Four, fork, forty, flour, folk
Eight, weight, wait, faint, feint, weird, woke
No one, none, knot, nothing, love

Some, sum, chute, shone, subtle shove

Many maniacs meant amends

Few refined fiends find true friends.

Brother, older, bother both

Sister, cistern, system; oath!

Father, fatter, falter, fault

Mother, macho, mutter, malt

Daughter, laughter, draft and drought

Son, soup, shoulder, shouldn't shout

Niece and nephew, office, police

Lice, delicious, peace, release.

Winter, women, whine and dyne

Spring, sigh, singer, ginger, sign

Summer, comer, hymn and thyme

Autumn, fallow, chimp and climb

Whether, weather, ware and tare

Front, from, font, and fowl or fare

Mown, sewn, sod in Heaven – odd!

Even 'eye', I'm overawed.

   

Limbo guys like Gene and John

Dance all night with Jean and Dawn

Just like movies that you've seen

Guests lean back, view groovy scene

Choose loose clothes to cruise the show

Limbo, how low can you go?

Limber ladies – limbs can seize

Please don't freeze and squeeze your knees.

Accent's hard to get correct

As in current or connect

Segment, portrait they portray

Moray, banquet and filet.

Insight, inquest and intent

Recent recipe, cement

Exit or exist, exude

Concert and request - conclude!

Undiscovered Poem by John Keats: "LA BELLE PLAGE SANS JETSKI"

A POETIC SAGA:  previously unpublished.
POETIC PRECEDENT: The current poem seems to be a sequel to John Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci", 1819.   

La Belle Dame sans Merci
fantasy rendering, Kirikam:
after Sir John Dicksee

EDITORIAL REVISION: Giorgio Coniglio updated the formatting for this work, which was discovered  scribbled on a napkin in 2001.
SONGLINK: The original Keats' poem has been set to music in a pastiche found on our sister blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies"




LA BELLE PLAGE SANS JETSKI

(A Saga of Escape to Sarasota Bay from the Lake Erie Shoreline)

O what can ail thee, pale Canuck,
   Gulf-coast and condo visiting,
Where the seagrass thrives along the Bay,
   And Snowbirds sing ? 

O what can ail thee, pale Canuck,
  Jet-charter'd and still shov'ling sore ?
The pompano is on the grill, fresh-
  -Squozen juice U-pour.

I watched an ibis in the reeds,
  And anguish'd "Need I ne'er go North?'
When rang a lady-elf with her
  Clipboard and Porsche.

She drove me in her pager'd steed,
  Past time-shar'd mangroves, egrets soar;
And there I fill'd her travel-mug
  With Starbucks' pour.

We tour'd beachfront, boat-access too,
  Benz'd realtors, well-bronz'd were they all,
They chirp'd, 'La Belle Plage sans Jetski -
  Close to the Mall.' 

She drove me to Siesta Key.
  En route I daydream'd, drawbridge high'd,
November's permanent escape
  From the froze Lake-side.

And that is why few winter there,
  Valve-closed or Erie-watering,
Though the sludge is filtered from the Lake
  And no bugs sting.