Phylum Poems

The Hoof Choice

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Written: November 07, 2023
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Am I condoning a state of affluence?
In recent desultory decadence
Have I drawn a swan dive of choice?
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Mnemonics

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What a strange word is mnemonic
far easier to say than to write or spell!
It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead
But after you get over that it makes sense
to use phase...

I Know a Place

...To phylum Ocimum basilicum belongs basil,
Into genus, Corylus included the plant hazel;
If purslanes, cattails, chickweeds, and wild carrots have their base,
Why can't I, in the universe vast, hav...

Arkham Asylum

...Founded by Amadeus Arkham for his dearest mother,
Whose illness, like Schizophrenia, brain sphere did smother;
An imaginary psychiatric clinic unique,
Curing cursed criminals, of their psyche and ...

Zaffre Azure Chimera

...on hyaloid shade phylum
of zaffre azure
swish
soulful scrutinize
apodictic vinculum
magniloquent 

wandering of wispy whooshes
wrapping wisps of weird warbles
shrivel olive trees...

The White Ghost Orchid

...So rare a sovereign reigns above the rest,
such glory, rarely glimpsed by subjects bound.
The White Ghost orchid dons her courtly vest.

Her vanity, a lesser would detest,
she stands with highes...

Taxonomic Rank

...taxonomic rank
lions tigers cats oh my
phylum and class

mammal of course 
categorization
above my head...

Monkey-Ape Conference: Fable

...Being the clan’s chosen representative
Dad Chimpanzee prepares himself with fervor’s zest
ready to attend this significant event
exposing creature’s welfare development
over centuries aga...

Maybe They Complained Too Soon

...When you carried your dreams in your heart
Little did you know that they were to be crushed in the start
Your body shook the whole world when washed ashore
The innocence in your cute face and the ...

Long Nosed Earthy Bookworm Knows Bout Angler Saxon

...Long nosed earthy bookworm knows 'bout Angler Saxon

Shell yours truly share hook line
and sinker, regarding how I nearly
fell prey to off fish shill
doom for umpteenth time?

Ya haint got no ...

Arthropodocene

...After human self-destruction ends the Anthropocene
will creepy crawlers build the Arthropodocene?
With rising levels of CO2 and methane 
and temperature rising to profane,
will those of poikiloth...

Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets

...Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size cal...

How Can You Be a Writer

...How can you be a writer? You don’t know anything.
I know.
I mean, really, can you even do a math problem?
No.
I’ll bet you do not know what a phylum is.
I do, but I cannot explain it.
Have you ...

Aye Am the Questioning Sort

...The more I learn, the more
     I realize how little I know…
which insightful, gutsy,
     entrancing, catchy apothegm

     attributed to Socrates by way of Plato
subsequently self ranking mys...

Think Spring

...Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous ex...

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