Coagulation Verse: TO CLOT, OR NOT TO CLOT

WORDPLAY post #178

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2019. Thoughts about blood-clotting disorders and their treatment have been incited by current health issues affecting family and friends. 
Today's verses, having been recently submitted, are under review at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks. Giorgio can currently point to some 220 submissions accepted for publication (many of them have been reproduced on this blog for your enjoyment). Links to other medically-related posts here at "Edifying Nonsense" are given at the bottom of this post.

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. And medically related parody-lyrics can be found here. 

Learn more about hemophilia and its current treatment with hamster-derived biosynthetic proteins at Wikipedia.

Learn more about atrial fibrillation and its treatment at Wikipedia

GEOGRAPHIC PALINDROME COLLAGES: The Americas #2

WORDPLAY post #177
This post is a continuation of #175, Geographic Palindrome Collages: The Americas #1.

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2018. 
WORDPLAY LINK: The panels showing palindromic phrases derived from geography of the Americas were originally displayed on Wordplay posts on this blog during the interval from May through September 2018. Geographically focused concoctions are among the many palindromic treasures honored and displayed on this site. Check out the list of entries for "The Palindrome Suite" in the slide at the bottom of this post. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys, as well as other types of song on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. In addition, some readers will be delighted (others will continue to groan) at our collection of songs based on palindromic phrases -- see the bottom of this post.

For hotlinks, check out the blogpost "Hotlinks: More than One Thousand Palindromes", or see below...

Magical Advanced Palindromes (post #9)   
Palindromic Political Blurts by Ed the Derailed Liar (post #11) 
Satan and His Devilish Palindromes (post #12)
Prudery and Denial (post #13)
Romance, Lust and Prurience (post #14)
Canalindromes: A Bidirectional Trip through the Panama Canal (post #15)
A Review: Composing Your Own Palindromes (post #19)
Beyond the Classic Repertoire: GOOFY VARIANTS
post#20 ; post#29 ; post #40
Using Palindromes for  Spelling: True, false and Uncertain (post #42)   
Geographic Palindromes from the New World (post #65) 
Geographic Palindromes from the Old World (post #68) 
The Meaning of Life as Revealed In Palindromes: Definitions and Examples (post #109)
The Culinary World Explored with Palindromes (post #114)

PESTIFEROUS VERSE: Limericks About INSECT PESTS

WORDPLAY post #176

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2019. Some of the verses presented here have been published (a few are still under review) at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks. Giorgio can currently point to over 220 of his submissions accepted for publication (many of them have been reproduced on this blog for your enjoyment). 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. There is some intriguing connection between some of these verses about insects and the themes of the singable lyrics blogpost "Delights of the Garden".

Learn more about DEET at Wikipedia

Learn more about gnat repellents at Consumers Union's website.

Learn more about beer bugs (Glischrochilus spp.) at Wikipedia and at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture website. 

Learn more about the red imported fire ant (RIFA) at Wikipedia.

Link to "HOLESOME VERSE: Limericks About CLOTHING MOTHS"

GEOGRAPHIC PALINDROME COLLAGES: The Americas #1

WORDPLAY post #175

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2018. 
WORDPLAY LINK: The panels showing palindromic phrases derived from geography of the Americas were originally displayed on Wordplay posts on this blog during the interval from January through April 2018. Geographically focused concoctions are among the many palindromic treasures honored and displayed on this site. Check out the list of entries for "The Palindrome Suite" in the slide at the bottom of this post. 

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

In addition, some readers will be delighted (others will continue to groan) at our collection of songs based on palindromic phrases -- see the bottom of this post.

For hotlinks, check out the blogpost "Hotlinks: More than One Thousand Palindromes", or see below...

Magical Advanced Palindromes (post #9)   
Palindromic Political Blurts by Ed the Derailed Liar (post #11) 
Satan and His Devilish Palindromes (post #12)
Prudery and Denial (post #13)
Romance, Lust and Prurience (post #14)
Canalindromes: A Bidirectional Trip through the Panama Canal (post #15)
A Review: Composing Your Own Palindromes (post #19)
Beyond the Classic Repertoire: GOOFY VARIANTS
post#20 ; post#29 ; post #40
Using Palindromes for  Spelling: True, false and Uncertain (post #42)   
Geographic Palindromes from the New World (post #65) 
Geographic Palindromes from the Old World (post #68) 
The Meaning of Life as Revealed In Palindromes: Definitions and Examples (post #109)
The Culinary World Explored with Palindromes (post #114)

HELLENIC PAEAN: The AEGEAN (restaurant) CAT

WORDPLAY post #174

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2018. Today's story in limerick-verse form has been published  at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited submissions based on a standard limerick format. 
WORDPLAY LINK: The poetic insights inherent to this piece evolved during travels to Greece in October 2018. Aspects of the tourist experience in Crete, Athens and the Cycladic Islands are found in the posts...
"Verse for Excursions: Limericks about the Greek Isles", and 
"More Verse for Excursions: Crete and Athens".

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


γάτα: Greek for cat

FURTHER UPROOTED VERSE: More Limericks About TREES

WORDPLAY post #173

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2019. Some of the verses presented here have  been published (a few are still under review) at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks. 
WORDPLAY LINK: An earlier collection of illustrated poems on this theme was published as wordplay post #161 here. These arboreal posts also pick up on themes discussed in the earlier post "Sappy Verse", that has themes related to the Joyce Kilmer poem.
SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. There is some intriguing connection between some of these verses about trees and the themes of the singable lyrics blogpost "Delights of the Garden".

You can read more about the camphor laurel infestation in northern Australia here.

Palmettos, native trees growing along the southeastern

and Gulf coastlines of the United States, are also distributed

and planted in the temperate portions of the country further

west; their particular role in South Carolina is discussed in

verses in the post “Limericks About Trees”.

This poem about Lief the Norway maple can be seen as a companion piece to 'Norway maple (Acer platanoides)' on the blogpost 'Limericks about Trees'.

Fabric artwork kindly provided by Rebecca Hurwitz. Hotlink: beckyhurwitz.net;
And for more poetry and photos about fabric art, see this prior post.