Three Cheers for the Tardigrade

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6/8/2025 for Out on a Lim Poetry Contest sponsored by Joseph May

Of all creatures in the animal parade, there's but one that each habitat does pervade. It can live any place - Antarctica or space. Three cheers for the adaptable tardigrade!

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 6/8/2025 8:15:00 PM

I've a bit about these hardy creatures in science magazines. "Fas-kin-a-tin" -- as Popeye used to say to Olive.

David Crandall
Date: 6/8/2025 8:27:00 PM

The old popeye cartoons - classics! Ah-guh-guh-guh-guh!

Tom Woody

Date: 6/8/2025 1:58:00 PM

They're cute buggers. Not

David Crandall
Date: 6/8/2025 7:54:00 PM

I go back and forth when it comes to their cuteness. I rhymed space and place, and for a minute, I was going to rhyme face, maybe by saying "he doesn't have a face", and then I started questioning, do they or do they not have faces. This is one of the rare times I did some research, going to Wikipedia. I still could decide whether they have faces or not.