Out On A Limb

Octopus hide in your sea garden
Two tentacles bit by a marlin  
Afraid to reach out 
though never a doubt
New limbs sprout, no better a bargain!

animallimerick

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I Am Anaya

Date: 6/18/2025 9:00:00 AM

Octopuses can regenerate their arms via epithelial and stem cells. When an octopus loses an arm, everything from nerve bundles to suckers are regenerated in a process called morphallaxis, where existing tissue is rearranged to allow for new tissue to grow. It takes about 130 days for the arm to grow back, and two to three days before the new limb is noticeable. Octopuses can regenerate entire arms, even though each arm has a mini brain and an extensive network of neurons--misfit animals

Sara Kendrick

Date: 6/18/2025 8:50:00 AM

Ahh!! Nice poem with an educational touch. I enjoyed reading it. Sara K

I Am Anaya
Date: 6/18/2025 9:01:00 AM

Tyvm Sara! xhugs

Jim Healey

Date: 6/15/2025 11:04:00 AM

Nicely done, Anaya. Congrats.

I Am Anaya
Date: 6/16/2025 9:31:00 AM

Tyvm, Jim!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/15/2025 10:20:00 AM

Nice to see this again. Congrats

I Am Anaya
Date: 6/15/2025 10:30:00 AM

Tyvm Andrea, hope your having a happy Father's Day~

CayCay Jennings

Date: 6/15/2025 9:26:00 AM

You delighted, entertained and educated me, I didn't know they regenerate body parts like lizards do. I hope you placed. My mind marinated the prompt, but nothing developed. Sweetie, I don't think anyone HEARS me about Dad's poem, my wish for you wasn't to read the poem so much as it was to read my comments in Paige's box, THEN my comments in Valsa George's box. I've tried so hard to share a miracle, but no one seems to hear what I write & I want you to know for it is incredible.

I Am Anaya
Date: 6/15/2025 10:32:00 AM

I hear you, dear poetess, you are very spiritual indeed! Keep writing with all of your courage and beautiful verses so real~

I Am Anaya
Date: 6/15/2025 10:12:00 AM

I had a realization just from the two lines you most poetically wrote, y e s the spirit lingers for a time in depth of the realms, my own partner relies on his own experience (a whisper, his father's) at a time. "My Octopus Teacher" is a lovely documentary (story) award winning, must see, it shows the relationship between the octopus and filmmaker, she is so smart. Have a nice Father's Day Cay Cay~