MORE IMMERSIBLE VERSE: Additional Illustrated Limericks About WATERFOWL, Jun '19

WORDPLAY POST #172  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2019, a continuation of post #169. 

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited poems, including two hundred or so by Giorgio. The present collection of verses, recently submitted to OEDILF and still under review, represents a bird-brained continuation of earlier work on the same subject. 

Readers who enjoy our collections of verses describing the natural world around them with illustrative images and text, might also enjoy these recent blog-offerings...

Verses about Geysers, Sep '18
Verses about Frogs, Jan '19
Verses about Trees, Mar '19
Verses about Reptiles, May '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #1), May '19

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted, embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone. Following submission of the poems to OEDILF, the slides collages we present here were formatted using Powerpoint software on a vintage 2000-era PC computer. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking, and OEDILF has no involvement in the pictorial portion of this presentation. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other song formats on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. And, if you would like to sing some of the poetry about birds presented here, you can find some of these verses in singable format (with ukulele chords displayed) by following this link. 

The author is indebted to Bill Wingfield for the idea for this poem.

IMMERSIBLE VERSE: Limericks About WATERFOWL, May '19

WORDPLAY POST #169 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2019. Today's verses have been published (a few remain under review) at OEDILF.com. The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited poems (Giorgio is proud to have contributed almost 300). 
Readers who enjoy our collections of verses describing the natural world around them with illustrative images and text, might also enjoy these recent offerings...

Verses about Geysers, Sep '18
Verses about Frogs, Jan '19
Verses about Trees, Mar '19
Verses about Reptiles, May '19

PHOTOS: I am indebted to Bill Wingfield for providing the wonderful photo of the wood stork in flight. Unless otherwise noted, embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone, then formatted using ancient Powerpoint software. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other song formats on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. And, if you would like to sing some of the poetry about birds presented here, you can find some of these verses in singable format (with ukulele chords displayed) by following this link.  

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

So, please follow this link!... 

Enthralling WORDPLAY May '19 #1

WORDPLAY post #168
Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, occasional verse, etc. 

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

Review the entire collection of anagram-town names (based on 

P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S) here.

HOT LINK to NEW WORLD PALINDROMES - complete series

HERPETOLOGIC VERSE: Limericks About REPTILES (no snakes)*, May '19

WORDPLAY post #166            
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, April 2019. The involved verses are under review, or have have been web-published at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited poems. Thanks are due to OEDILF contributing-editor MikeAq who kindly provided a number of verses in the present collection.

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted, embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone, then formatted using ancient Powerpoint software. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other song formats on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

BACKGROUND:  "herpetology" - the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians. Interested readers should also refer to our blog-post #150, "Limericks About Frogs". Readers should note that snakes have been omitted from this poetic idyll owing to the marked aversion by the editor's life-partner. 

Copyright 2013, MikeAq

See this earlier post for Giorgio's rehash of Ogden Nash's verse (The Purist) about the important differences between crocodiles and alligators.

Copyright 2014, MikeAq

Copyright 2018, MikeAq

Read more about the invasive species, brown anole (Anolis sagrei) here.