February 10, 2022

FEB 10, a brief saga (inspired by Ogden Nash): 'the gnat and the nit'


verse in honour of 'Dr. JJ', whose love of life included comedy, satire and the music of poetry ...



The gnu photo illustrating this verse was kindly provided to the editors by Barry Weinstock. But you already knew that, if you had read the prior blogpost about 'gnu dung'. 















  
Readers might want to proceed to our post on "Edifying Nonsense", where we display a few of Nash's (verified) limericks. Click HERE.


 For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary iLimerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format proceed in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year. 
  Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. In this particular case, the two final stanzas of the poem were added later as a blog-specific addendum to the verses A to C.

To access the next 'brief saga' in this series (March 2022), proceed to 'Bequest'.
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (January 2022), back up to 'Drug Development'.








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