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

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

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@ MAY 25 (2025) singable satire: 'SKITTISH DOLL'

MAY 15 (2025): Poetic NON-SEQUITURS, fourth grouping [6]

 This blogpost is a continuation of 'POETIC NON-SEQUITURS, as posted on this blog May 15, 2022 (first grouping),  May 15, 2023 (second grouping), and May 15, 2024 (third grouping).

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

(first grouping): adolescence, almost Kosher, artistic weightlifting, bush plane, charity auction, close quarters. 

(second grouping): cumulative songs, demolition, dishwasher, doggy bag, epistaxis, ESL. 

(third grouping): far-flung family, gavel (judge's), gifted children, greeting (Spanish), ground down, having the audacity.

CURRENT CONTENTS:  (#4 -- May 15, 2025)

Hoggishly

Horticultural

Host and co-host
Hoyle, Edmond
Latitude (changes in)
Mallards at the swimming-pool

Authors' Note:

arrangement of florists: proposed collective noun for this occupational grouping.

Authors' Note: 

according to Hoyle: an idiom alluding to Edmond Hoyle's books as the ultimate authority on the rules of social games, particularly cardgames such as whist

There are few verifiable details of the early life of Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769). As a tutor in parlour games, he published A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist at the age of 70. Other books of rules followed, primarily involving card games, but also chess and probability theory. Hoyle died at age 97 in London, England, prior to the popularization of today's most common games such as poker and contract bridge. 

Authors' Note: The 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett contained a song of the same title, as well as his most popular hit "Margaritaville".

With holiday season travel plans, and snowbirds' escapes to more appealing climes disrupted by the severe December weather in the winter of 2022, J.B.'s advice has more relevance. And the authors express gratitude to their female partner who has made arrangements for the appropriate seasonal migration.

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MAY 10 (2025): URBAN CONCERNS, part #2 [4]

CURRENT CONTENTS: (#2 -- October 15, 2024) 
In the distance
Old conservatory
Pre-stressed concrete
School districts and real estate

                                     

Authors' Note: We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free! Renovations are proceeding in the central palm-court, but the lateral greenhouse galleries remain open. 

You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Ontario cactuses, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.

 

Authors' Note: Surveillance of tension cables in pre-stressed concrete is an arduous process, but is essential in older buildings, particularly in parking garages, although apartment towers may also be at risk. Sampling by drilling into the slabs only allows assessment of whether cables have failed, i.e. are broken, and are no longer under tension. Since the 1980s, the development of occlusive plastic fittings at attachment points has apparently reduced the possibility of corrosion due to moisture, a major cause of failure.

The author concedes a lack of professional knowledge concerning this problem. Please consult a structural engineer.

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