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!

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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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FEB 5 (2025): Spineless Verse, OTHER INVERTEBRATES [6]

Re Arthropods (invertebrates): 

We had hived off verses about INSECTS, the most prevalent spineless creatures, and that poetic endeavour is gathered in separate blogposts that you can get into HERE. So, follow the links, and enjoy. 

But there were lots of leftover interactions with various other groups of arthropods that you can read about in today's post. As usual, the illustrative photos were taken, unless otherwise specified, on Giorgio's i-phone-7 camera. The verses and supportive notes are derived from poems submitted to and edited on the collaborative humour-dictionary site, OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). 

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Centipedes

California mussels

Dew worms

Gastropods (slugs and snails)

Chelipods

Ghost crabs

 

RELATED VERSE:

Authors' Note: Intestinal parasites belonging to the phylum Nematoda are transmitted primarily through contaminated soil; they include members of these worm-families that produce systemic human disease: roundworms, whipworms, hookworms. A related group, the threadworms, cause disease primarily among pets.

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@ JAN 25 (2025) singable satire: 'BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC'

JAN 15 (2025): Anthropomorphic and Human BAR-FAUNA, second round [6]

 

 This post is a continuation of 'BAR-FAUNA, as posted on this blog January 15, 2024 (part#1).

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

(first round) ark's bar, FUBAR/snafu), Gary the gator, Hamlet's ghostly dream, lack of enlightment, lizards' lair.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#2)

Medical watering hole

Monster-bar 
Mule (beasts of burden)

Organic bar 
Slyly

Sober October 

Authors' Note: dietary: (DYE-eh-t'ree, as here, or DYE-uh-tay-ree): a hospital department best known for producing meal trays to be distributed to in-patients.

 This verse is dedicated to the proposition that bars located near hospitals may be viewing-places of partiular interest. And yes! Dr. Korn is likely the medical centre's sole specialist-practitioner in his area of interest.

Authors' Note:  The golem, an entity from Jewish folklore, is likely the least well-known of the supernatural beings participating in this story. Made entirely of inanimate matter, e.g. mud or clay, this sizable being can classically be either a victim or villain, and connotes hope or despair. In more recent popular culture, it refers to any crude automaton devised by a sorcerer.

Although she apparently has few close friends, “Nessie” is a nickname for Scotland’s famed Loch Ness monster.

Authors' Note: A mule, formerly known as a buck, makes a wonderful mixed drink on a very hot day. Its key ingredients are ginger beer (ideally the opaque soapy extract bottled in the Caribbean), citrus juice (most often freshly squeezed lime), and a variety of liquors. In the concoction’s most common form, the Moscow mule, vodka is used as the source of alcohol.

 

Author's Note: This verse, borrowed from OEDILF, deals with seasonal underage drinking on the Canadian prairies; click HERE.

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