@ JUN 25 (2025), singable satire: "CONSTANTINOPOLIS", the seer of Byzantion

JUN 15 (2025): PLANET-SAVING VERSE, folio #2 (not before we need it) [5]

 

 This post is a continuation of the collection of poems 'PLANET-SAVING VERSE (not before we need it') as displayed on this blog June 15, 2024).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" since January 2024).

(first folio): beach foam, 'clean' coal, compostables, drought, enzootic ending.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#2)

Fur-farming

Invasive species

Koi (invasive fish)

Phosphate detergents

Shorebird Council.

Authors' Note: The Amur carp, Cyprinus rubrofuscus, is a long-lived freshwater fish native to extensive areas of Eastern Asia. Centered in the Niigata prefecture of Japan, breeders have taken advantage since 1820 of genetic variability in the color of fish-scales to produce variants in a variety of remarkable decorative colors that may be further enhanced by selection and cross-breeding. Nishikigoi ('brocaded carp'), less formally referred to as koi ('carp'), have been recently pursued further as a hobby and as a commercial interest in various Asian countries.

On every continent, koi populations have 'escaped' and become established as invasive intruders in freshwater ponds and streams (where their color eventually reverts to that of undomesticated Amur carp). As koi characteristically alter the environment, increasing the turbidity of freshwater bodies, native species have been displaced.

Authors' Note: 

Detergent is a Latin-derived term for a product that 'wipes away' dirt.

You might be interested to review our recent post about the dishwasher as a domestic appliance.

 An illustrated verse about a specific project to restore the shoreline can be found HERE. 

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JUN 10 (2025): WATERFOWL, sixth flocking [6]

 

    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), and June 10, 2024 (flocking#5).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

(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.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#6):
Seabird feeders
Snow Goose
Snowy Egrets
Swans
Tricolored (Louisiana) herons
Trumpeter swans

Bird-watchers, academic ornithologists, wordplay enthusiasts, wildlife photographers, Giorgio's relatives, and just everyday folks have united in their demand for still more illustrated doggerel on this topic!

For more illustrated poems about waterfowl, please proceed to the seventh flocking by clicking HERE.

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