NATIONAL (and multinational) Verse

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Armenia

Greenland

Haiti

la Francophonie

Iceland

Panama (Canal Zone)

Canada (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

France (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

America (USA - 3 verses, a 'brief saga') 

Authors' Note:

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Armenia, the first country in the world to adopt Christianity, has had disputes with its neighbors for most of its existence. The revered Mt. Ararat is now located geopolitically in Turkey, but is still considered a national symbol of Armenia, and dominates the view from the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Armenia's borders to the east and west currently remain closed owing to hostile relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Authors' Note: This verse, along with Canal Zone (to follow) and fifty-first (preceding) constitutes a trilogy of diplomatic nonsense.

As of 2024, Greenland, with population of 56,000, is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Authors' Note: The plight of Haiti, and some of its earlier history, are described in an OEDILF verse by speedysnail  

Authors' Note: Late in 2024, the incumbent US president turned his attention from Canada, a friendly neighbour that he had threatened with massive tariffs, dangling the possibility of a sort of "Anschluss".

His sudden announcement that "excessive" shipping fees across the Panama Canal were a matter of vital national US interest was accompanied by threats to retake control of the Canal Zone, a region that had been under sole Panamanian control since 1979.

The author of the above poem in his prior work acclaim had discussed the role of President Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.) in construction of the Panama Canal, therein revealing the neo-palindrome A man, a plan, if final — Panama.

(Note that the four verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.)

Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in a more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

(Note that the four verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

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