shapeless darkness erupts in blinding form for an instant
Lightning Strike [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Leopard, Darjeeling Zoo
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The Skepticism-less Skeptic [Limerick]
The philosopher, René Descartes, said, "I'll doubt everything, just to start." but once he "proved" God, what are the odds, the wheels rolled off his skeptical cart.
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Astronomical Fail [Limerick]
The astronomer Francesco Sizzi worked himself into a tizzy: "More rocks in space? There're seven holes in a face! Pssh! Galileo calls himself scientist, but is he?"
Note: When Galileo suggested Jupiter had moons, Sizzi summarily rejected the idea based on the “rationale” that there couldn’t be more than seven natural satellites because there are seven holes in a mammal’s head, seven days in a week, and [somehow] seven metals… ergo, seven astronomical bodies, maximum.
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Winter Landscape [Haiku]
snowy mountains stand above a trickling stream, too cold to drip
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DAILY PHOTO: Elephant Calf
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Ancestral Mathematics Limerick
A scholar who loved precise specificity was asked about his exact ethnicity. "That very much depends how far back one extends: I'm seven-eighths Brit, but all Kenyan - for simplicity."
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Strangler Fig Limerick
There was a man who lived in the jungle -oh! A fig took root in the roof of his bungalow. 'Twas a spotless hut, 'til the door grew shut, and the place was overcome by a fungal growth.
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Gothic Church Ruins [Haiku]
gothic cathedral: vault crumbled, floors moss green; nature reclaims
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DAILY PHOTO: Inanimate Camel Art
