MAR 15 (2025) AMBULATION, excursion #2 [6]

    This post is a continuing collection of poems about 'AMBULATION', as posted on this blog on Mar 5, 2024 (excursion #1).

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

(excursion #1): pre-amble, amble, climb, escape, falter, hasten. 

CURRENT CONTENTS (March 5, 2025)

Hike

Hop to it

Hover

Lurk

Reverse

Scamper (seduction)

poetry lyrics:/ Ambulation? Appraising the hike./ Terrain skaters and dancers
 don't like./ Rocky beach, cliffside paths,/ Jungly thickets (no grass)./
 "Boots will suit such adventure!" touts Mike.

poetry lyrics:/ Ambulation? The hop (let's review it):/ Miming bunnies,

 small tots love to do it./ (Hind-leg push, airborne flop/ Then regroup with each stop)./

 Grownups, pressed, choose this gait/ When they're gonna be late;/

 All digressions they drop, and hop to it.

Authors' Note: 

do a 180: a colloquialism for reversing direction deriving from half the number of degrees in a complete circle; here, as elsewhere, voiced as one-eighty

The author, an old palindromist, finds it appropriate to mention in the context of 'doing a 180', a few palindromic phrases that use the verb reverse. These include:

Codes reverse, Doc; Noses reverse, son; Dikes reverse, kid; 

Drawer: sides reversed is ... reward; and the very dark 

Nooses reverse soon. 

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MAR 10 (2025): The frontier of doggerel: PALINKUs from 2024

A continuation of our previous posts summarizing the introductory phase of this new poetic concoction....

Go back to review palinkus from the year 2020 by clicking HERE, and the for the year 2021 by clicking HERE.

prior posted poems (2023)

denial

drinks

ethics

European capitals

family life

meat-eating

pets

reliable transport

restaurants #2

reversal

schoolboy humor #2

sweet treats #2

CURRENT CONTENTS (2024, January to August) 

denial #2

denial #3

diapers

London (UK and ON)

lust deferred

Paris (France and ON)

precepts

restaurants #3

veggies #2

You can continue this astounding journey, exploring our new poetic form. Click below for novel applications of the palinku format:

spelling with palinkus (2022)

presidential palinkus (2024)

 Alternatively, you could proceed to our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", where we have in a more casual manner, published these terse verses one-at-a-time, usually on the 17th day of each month. 

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MAR 5 (2025): POETS" CORNER: fourth angle [4]

 

 This blogpost is a continuation of verse from the collections 'POETS' CORNER', as posted on this blog March 5, 2022 (first angle), March 5, 2023 (second angle), and March 5, 2024 (third angle). 

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

(first angle): addiction to limerick writing, authorly skill, blogosphere, bold faced/bald-faced, cans and can'ts (argumentatively), collaboration.

(second angle): creative writing, depressed limericist, doggerel ("brief sagas'), editorial balking, editorial state "Held", (the poet's) family.   

(third angle): free verse, gender-neutral language, inventiveness, noun-verb contractions, philosophy of limericks.

CURRENT CONTENTS (fourth angle)

Satirical doggerel

Subtle editorial bullying
Summary
Wit's end

 

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, 'collaborative' refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

 

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FEB 15 (2025): HERPETOLOGIC (reptilian) VERSE#3, third slither [5]

 

 This post is a continuation of the collection of poems 'REPTILES' as displayed on this blog February 15, 2023 (slither #1), and February 15, 2024 (slither #2).

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

(first slither): amphisbaenians, autotomy, beneficial snakes, broad-headed skinks, brown anoles.

(second slither): Carolina anoles, crocodilians, eastern glass lizards, eviction notice, fence lizards, five-lined skinks. 

CURRENT CONTENTS (#3)
Geckos (on the ceiling)
Gila monsters
Going green
Herpetophobes
Leaping lizards

Authors' Note: A profusion of tiny setae (filament-hairs) on the lizards' palm-pads, as shown by electron microscopy, explain the gecko's unusual gravity-defying mobility.

Authors' Note: Gila monsters are found in southern California, Arizona and northern Mexico. They should enjoy ongoing changes in our climate.

green anole, appearing gray, climbing down fencepost

same anole, 2 minutes later

Authors' Note: 

ophidiophobia: an extreme or incapacitating fear of snakes

herpetophobia: a similar anxiety disorder extending to all reptiles

The reptilian suborder Serpentes was previously known as Ophidia, a term derived from ophis, Greek for 'snake'. 

Authors' Note:  'Leapin' Lizards' was a classic idiom used to express surprise, long before it was suspected that birds had evolved from reptiles!

Nature-lovers , academic herpetologists, wordplay enthusiasts, wildlife photographers, Giorgio's relatives, and just everyday folks have united in their demand for more verses on this topic!

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FEB 10 (2025): Progress in Poetry: "LIMERRHOIDS" (C-rhyme extension)

 We're hoping with this blogpost to provide you with more understanding and some helpful examples related to a type of  limerick-variation indulged in by the authors. To see the whole spectrum of our efforts, you might want to take the time to review "A Corner of the Poet's World: LIMERICK VARIATIONS".

Note that "limerrhoid" is a neologism, i.e. a concocted word invented by the authors for an extended limerick verse; it has no genuine medical significance, although it sounds as if it should. And, before you proceed to learn about limerrhoids, you might want to review the simpler concept of extended 7-line limericks that result from the incorporation of "extra" pairs of lines with A-or B-rhymes, usually at the end of the stanza. We do also indulge in these less sophisticated entities, and we have collected them for you; click HERE for "Run-On Limericks".   

Authors' Note: an apocryphal tale. The authors offer their apologies to any extant persons in Ireland or elsewhere named Seamus O'Malley, or their descendants.

The above verse also appears in the blogged collection of  'Poetic Non-Sequiturs', aand at OEDILF #125808. 

The above verse also appears in the blogged collection of verse "Pandemic Poetry", and on OEDILF at #124900.

Further collections of "limerrhoid" verses by the authors, using an extended limerick format, have been compiled for readers; click HERE. 

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