A Different Angle: POETS' CORNER, part #2

This post is a continuation of a collection of verses as initiated on Jul 15, 2021. 

prior poetic posts (part #1)

addiction to limerick writing 

authorly skill

blogosphere

bold-faced / bald-faced

cans and can'ts (argumentively)

collaboration

creative writing (decompose)

depressed limericist

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Doggerel (brief sagas)

Editorial balking

Editorial state: "Held"

(The poet's) Family

Free verse

Gender-neutral language

Inventiveness (palinkus)

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 This verse bypasses the requirement at OEDILF for 'definition', in favor of the more reasonable targets of 'exemplification' and 'entertainment'. The author points out hesitatingly that 17 prior 'balk-verses' in OEDILF's data-base (as of 2022) altogether provide minimal definition of the many meanings of this puzzling word.

Authors' Note:

Held:  (at OEDILF ...) A state of workshopping selected by an author to shield their submission from discussion until further self-editing makes it suitable to return to the 'Tentative' state as an openb target for collegial comment. 

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary and related website whose contributors have been making their way for 20 years through the alphabet to define the meaning(s) of each word in the English language. Its highly polished verses are the reult of a collaborative editing process. In its 20 years of existence, it has progressed fromn A- to Ik-.  

Authors' Note:  Avoidance of discriminatory gender-bias in language is an unassailable aim. 

   In the medical field, there are many terms which are problematic due to syllables that in written or spoken form make them seem suspect for such bias. Usually, however, this 'problem' is happenstance based on the incorporation of Greek root-words. Sometimes the level of comedy is reached, as in the near-homonym for the male possessive form in the term HYSterectomy' (surgical removal of the uterus). Other medical and non-medical terms with hidden gender-related messages as in the above verses are indicated by font colour.  

OVERLAPPING THEMES:

To access more of this poetic cornucopia, you can proceed onward to the collection  'Poets' Corner #3' (February 2023, 4+ poems) ...

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