American wordplay map with versification: I-N-C-I-T-E-D A R-I-O-T

 

DEFINING OPINIONS, fifth octet (in progress)

 previous posted poems:

(first octet):
academically
birdlife

bupkes

crepuscular

cruddy

diaphoretic

envision

expertise

(second octet);

hamuli 

haunch
heinous

hoarding

hod

holdout

hole#1

hole #2

(third octet):

holler

hollow

homogenized milk

hone

honey

honk

honorifics

hooey

(fourth octet):

hoot

hopeful

hormones

hors d'oeuvre

hose

hostility

hot

hourly

CURRENT CONTENTS

Housewife

Humorless

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EXOTIC TRAVEL DESTINATIONS, part #2

 

previously posted poems (part #1)

air travel

Cappadocia, Turkey

Chania, Crete

Congolese hippodromes

discount fares to Australia

Ford Ord national monument

Haifa (Holyland)

Hawai'i, US and Haida Gwaii, Canada

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Iceland

Labelle, Florida

Micronesia

Mt. Pleasant, S. Carolina

Nome, Alaska

Swiss Alps

Chemainus, BC (6 verses, a 'brief saga')

photo courtesy of Uncommon Solutions

shoreline of Charleston Harbor,
cruiseship approaching in shipping lane

approachable 'wild' waterfowl,
an attraction at the Shem Creek boardwalk

(Note that the six 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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BINOMIAL EXPRESSIONS, part #3

 

previously posted poems

(part #1 - December 5, 2021)

hale and hearty

hug and kiss

food and drink 

first and last

sin and redemption

down and out

betwixt and between

hem and haw

(part #2 - August 5, 2023) 

flotsam and jetsam

by hook or by crook

poop and scoop

bump and grind

birds and bees

flora and fauna

publish or perish

high and dry

CURRENT CONTENTS

Here and there

Echoic binomials (3 verses, a 'brief saga' )

Healthy, wealthy and wise (a trinomial)

SONG-LINK

More to follow

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

 "Bigger and bigger" in the above collection exemplifies nicely the echoic binomial.

And, it doesn't take too much imagination to guess that the whole enterprise can be extended on occasion to three parallel words (nouns, verbs or adjective).

SONG-LINK

Some musically inclined readers might enjoy a song for which Giorgio took the lyrics for the poem "Echoic Binomials", and adjusted them to fit with the melody of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?".  If interested, click here for "Again and Again". 

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