JAN 15, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: NATURAL WORLD / ENVIRONMENT ("Mother Nature's Voice")

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U.P. !!!

tri-colored heron

tri-colored heron, immature

1) Here's a list of links to collections of intriguing POEMS, usually accompanied by illustrations, on nature and the environment that can be found in posts on this blog. The shorter 'terse verses' of 1 or 2 stanzas are enumerated; the titles of additional longer poems with 3 stanzas or more ('brief sagas') are noted specifically in this tabulation.

 For the larger collections, grouped in multiple sets, you can follow further links at the bottom of the primary post to proceed from 'part #1' to the next set on that topic.

Amphibians                          8

Birdlore       #1                    8

                    #2                     8                         

                    #3                     2 + "Avian Digestion"; "Domestic Turkeys"

The Charleston garden           7

Garden intruders                 8

Geysers                                5

Insects      #1                       8

                  #2                      8 

                  #3                      3 + "Clothes Moths"

Invertebrates, other                      6

Mammalian wildlife #1        8

                                #2        8

                                 #3        7 + "Aegean Cat"

Planet-saving verse  #1       8

                                   #2       6 + "Walrus and Carpenter"

Reptiles                  #1         8

                                #2         8

                               #3         4

Trees    #1                          8

             #2                           6 + "Palmetto Trees"

Waterfowl     #1                  8

                      #2                   8

                      #3                  8

                       #4                  8

                       #5                  8 + "Cormorant Rookery"; "Life as a Loon" 

SUMMARY OF POETRY-POSTS RELATED TO NATURE/the ENVIRONMENT:

 In these 26 collections, we have accumulated 190 of our poems, of average length 6+ lines each, along with plenty of explanatory notes and illustrative photos; mulling over this assemblage of twelve hundred lines of doggerel might be a good way to fill a dull winter evening. Join the party!  

2) Here's a list of links to  PARODY SONG-LYRICS about nature and the environment found in posts on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 In some cases the original tune used for the song-base of the satire might not be obvious to the reader, so we have listed them all below. 

Carolina Winter Morning           "Carolina in the Morning"

Coach the Nestlings

                                                      "Teach Your Children"  

Dietary Notes                             "Mairzy Doats"

Downside                                    "Both Sides Now"

Global Roasting can be set aside      "Chestnuts Roasting ..."

Pen of Rabbits                            "Men of Harlech"

Polyvinyl for Millenia                  "Carolina in the Morning"

Red Basket Fungus                     "We Three Kings"

Star-Nosed Mole                         "Heart and Soul"

Three Bears in our Hot-Tub        "Three Coins in the Fountain" 

Tiptoe Through Ripe Berries       "Tiptoe through the Tulips"

View of Earth                               "Book of Love"

Yew-phoric                                  "Hot Blooded"

Zombie Cockroach                       "Boney Fingers"

3) Here's a list of links to PHOTO-COLLAGES dealing with nature and the environment, as  featured in posts in the archives of "Daily Edifying Nonsense". (Each "composite" displays 5-11 photos)

American white ibis

anoles in the Carolina suburbs

backyard broad-headed skinks

brown pelicans

bunnies on the trail

Canada geese

Carolina lowcountry miscellany

crepuscular rendez-vous

egrets (mixed) vying at the spillway

elephant seals: a peek

great blue herons at Toronto's Don Valley

great egrets, sunny Toronto afternoon

green anole pole-dancer 

mute swans

lowcountry hunting: action-photos of great egrets

photo-analysis: flight of the great blue heron

resurgent sea otters

snowy egrets

talking heads, avian, mammalian, and other

Swan Lake / Iris Gardens: tranquil views

Swan Lake / Iris Gardens: action photos

trumpeter swans

wildlife of the Carolina lowcountry (1 and 2)

 

JAN 10, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: CANADIAN TOPICS ("Canuck ruckus")

see also this previous post  

1) Here's a list of links to collections of intriguing POEMS on Canadian-related topics that can be found in posts on this blog. The shorter 'terse verses' of 1 or 2 stanzas are enumerated; the titles of additional longer poems with 3 stanzas or more ('brief sagas') are noted specifically in this tabulation.

 For the larger collections, grouped in multiple sets, you can follow further links at the bottom of the primary post to proceed from 'part #1' to the next set on that topic.

Canadiana   #1                        8

                    #2                         8                         

                    #3                         4 + "Newfoundland Potato Famine"

                                                   + "Chemainus, B.C."

Captain R's Rhotic Mission      4

Ontario Nostalgia                          9         

Postal places, Canada             7

Stand on Guard                       7

Toront-oases  (verse)               7

SUMMARY OF POETRY POSTS RELATED TO CANADA: In these 8 collections, we have accumulated more than 50 poems related to the Canadian experience, of average length 6+ lines each, along with plenty of explanatory notes and illustrative photos; mulling over this assemblage of 300 lines of verse might be a good way to fill a dull winter evening. Join the party!  

2) Here's a list of links to PARODY SONG-LYRICS about Canada found in posts on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 In some cases the original tune used for the song-base of the satire might not be obvious to the reader, so we have listed them all below. 

An Alien Heading South                     "Englishman in New York"

       (a pair-ody)                                            + "Mr. Spaceman"

Big Rob Rehab Clinic                          "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 

Canada Day 2017 (sesquicentennial)      "The Limerick Song"

Canoeing Lesson (canoe, x5)                 "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"

Flight of the Loonie                               "O Canada"

FOP-Shop Wine                                     "Red Red Wine"

In Days of York (school reunion)           "The Maple Leaf Forever"

Lost Country                                         "Lost River"

Nifty Ways to Leave Your Mukluks      "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover"  

Off-Patent Drug #19                           "Love Potion Number Nine"

Prattle of New Orleans                       "The Battle of New Orleans"

Something to Groan About                  "Something to Sing About"

Suburbs' Guy                                        "Jambalaya"

The Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum               "The Maple Leaf Forever"     

Thunder Bay                                         "Istanbul (not Constanstinople)"

Trailerparky                                         "Greensleeves" 

TTC Voices                                           "New River Train"

Vancouver's Isle                                 "Black Velvet Band"             

Verse!                                                   "Up!" (Shania Twain) 

3) Here's a list of links to WORDPLAY-DISPLAYS based on anagrams (letter scrambles) for key phrases dealing with Canadian issues, as  featured in posts in the archives of this blog -- "Edifying Nonsense".

Each of the enumerated posts consist of a collection of slides; the number of posts is displayed for each topic-based collection.

Scramble-Towns of Eastern Canada   5 posts, 17 wordplay maps, 75 anagrams

Anagram-Maps, R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S  6 posts, 21 wordplay maps, 300 anagrams

                                                    

4) Here's a list of links to PHOTO-COLLAGES dealing with Canadian issues, as  featured in posts in the archives of "Daily Edifying Nonsense". (Each "composite" displays 4-11 photos)

TORONT-OASES

architectural art-installations

art-installations in the parks (2 composites)

autumn at  the Lakefront

Bloored birds

Brickworks (3 composites)

Casa Loma

City Halls

Conservatory (Allan Gardens)

deluge (celestial intervention)

golden pond (High Park)

High Park and its Zoo (2 composites)

Humber Bay

Leslie Street Spit (4 composites)

Lishman's sculptures

Riverdale Farm   (2 composites)

Rouge National Park

salmon run on the Humber

Scarborough Bluffs  (2 composites)

spring back: neighborhood

stormy Ashbridge's Bay

Toronto Islands (3 composites)

Toronto Zoo (2 composites)

unusual sightings (Toronto wildlife)

urban farm portraits

waterfront biking (autumn)

wildlife at the Brickworks

TORONTO RAVINE PARKS

Hikes, Bikes and Likes (31 composites)

ONTARI-OASES

Fall colour tour (4 composites)

Muskoka waterfowl

Niagara Falls

Niagara River hiking

unusual sightings (Ontario wildlife)

SEA to SEA

arrival by air, BC

Cirque du Soleil's "Echo" (3 postings)

guided beach-tour, Vancouver Island, BC

Long Lake, Nanaimo, BC

murals of Chemainus, BC

Whistler, BC

JAN 5,, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: MEDICAL and HEALTH ISSUES ("Professionally Profound")

1) Here's a list of links to collections of intriguing POEMS on medical/dental topics that can be found in posts on this blog. 

 The number after each topic indicates the number of poems found in the collection.  For the larger collections, grouped in multiple sets, you can follow further links at the bottom of the primary post to proceed from 'part #1' to the next set on that topic.

  

Bottom Line of Medical Humour           9 

BJNasic Medical Science                           9 

Cardiologic Tracings: AT HEART #1     8

                                                     #2     4

Clot, or Not to Clot                                5

Dental Feelings                                    11 

Diagnostic Imaging                               7

Doctors and their Practices #1            8

                                             #2             7

Funny Bones    #1                                 8

                         #2                                 9

Handbook: Medical Testing Statistics  6 

Oncology Verses                                   8

Organic Brain Poetry                           8 

Pandemic Poetry   #1                           8      

                              #2                           6 

Parasites                                               7

Patients and their Maladies  #1          8

                                               #2          8

                                               #3          9

Pill-Popping Poetry                              5 

Poetry of Healthcare                            4

The Scopes of Modern Medicine          6

Sleek Greek Prefixes  #1                     8

                                    #2                      4

STD Poetry                                            7

Toxic Vignettes                                                  7  

SUMMARY OF MEDICAL/DENTAL POETRY POSTS: In these 28 collections, we have accumulated over 200 of our poems, of average length 6+ lines each, along with plenty of explanatory notes and illustrative photos; mulling over this outpouring of 1,300 lines of doggerel-verse might be a good way to fill dull winter evenings. Join the party!  

2) Here's a list of links to PARODY SONG-LYRICS on medical/dental topics  found in posts on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 In some cases the original tune used for the song-base of the satire might not be obvious to the reader, so we have listed them all below. 

Adenoma, a pair-ody                      "Mona Lisa" + "Buona Sera"

Avitaminoses                                "The Twelve Days of Christmas"

Flaking Out is What They Do        "Breaking up is Hard to Do"

Mel and His Hernia                        "Me and My Shadow"

Mergerwocky                                 "House of the Rising Sun"

Prostate Cancer                             "Love and Marriage"

Reflux Romp                                  "Java Jive"

R-I-C-E                                           "Y-M-C-A"

The Uniqueness of Nuclear           "The Elements" 

Under My Own Steam #1/#2       "I've Been Everywhere"

Where Has Neurosyphylis Gone?  "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

 3) Here's a list of links to "BRIEF SAGAS", (poems consisting of three or more limerick stanzas) on medical/dental topics  that can be found on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". These entities are  also enumerated with the shorter limerick poems (one or two stanzas), tabulated in the first section of this summary. 

 As all limerick verses can be readily arranged to be sung (to several different melodies), readers have the option to consider them as poems (links to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" are provided here), or as accompanied song-lyrics (follow the further links with each individual entry). 

Beri-beri

Drug Development

Fluoridation

A Gram of Prevention

Hemianopsia

Metabolic Delirium

Methylated Spirits

Radiation Exposure

Squid in the Time o Covid

Word on G.E.R.D.

Workplace Pollution