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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · 9d

A Chem Week verse, from Scarborough four--
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme--
Theme varies slightly given the score,
For Mole Day mention, via quick rhyme.

#NationalChemistryWeek #MoleDay #ACS_NCW
#TheHiddenLifeOfSpices #AndHerbs

Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · 23d

A science-art phrase diagnostic
Will center a compound base-caustic;
Attention un-wavers
On limelight’s behavior,
As trips the light koniaphostic.

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#Limelight #SciArt #Limericks #SciencePoetry

Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · May 25

Observed in a day’s late through-farin’;
Impressive, a bird’s state (due sharin’):
With water-rush weathered
In stature quite feathered,
A sudden surprise… great blue heron!

#LimerickSunday

A great blue heron stands in a nearby creek.

A great blue heron spreads its wings while standing in rushing waters.

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · May 21

A cardinal’s hue, vivid-winging
As rainstorm sets branches to swinging;
Soon, blue skies aplenty
On day one-and-twenty
In back-and-forth-steps of May’s springing.

#SpringConstants #Limericks

A small red cardinal is visible in the center of trees in the midst of a rainstorm. (This limerick takes poetic license in alluding to Hooke’s Law, used in physical science to define the movement of a spring via a “spring constant,” to reference the reliably back-and-forth nature of the changes in May’s spring weather.)

Blue skies are already visible on the opposite horizon, reinforcing the theme of dramatic weather changes as a constant aspect of this season. (This limerick takes poetic license in alluding to Hooke’s Law, used in physical science to define the movement of a spring via a “spring constant,” to reference the reliably back-and-forth nature of the changes in May’s spring weather.)

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · May 20

To celebrate day metrologic
With global theme, STEM-philosophic,
This May marks attention
To Metre Convention
As sesquicentennial topic!

#WorldMetrologyDay #Limericks

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · May 4

Merits May Fourth an ode systematic
To far galaxy’s guide enigmatic,
Whose shifts anastrophic
With themes philosophic
Will invert lines to fame cinematic.

#LimerickSunday #Yoda
#MayThe4thBeWithYou

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 30

The month’s new-complete contribution
Re: concepts, reactions, allusions;
A break from spring’s stressing:
Chem-terms, verse-addressing,
In welcome routine’s resolution.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #NaPoWriMo2025

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 29

Acidic-environment feature:
Oft-stable reactant’s chem-cleaver.
The process provides
Alcohol and halide:
Two products formed out of the ether.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 28

A radical initiation
Begins with bond-breaking notation.
Ensuing, next steps
Allow varied prospects.
(Some cases, polymerizations.)

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms #RadicalChemistry

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 27

Tomorrow’s view: Finals Week, finding
Last emails, announcements, remindings.
Spring weather enlivens;
Exams on horizon:
The path towards term’s end now is winding.

#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday #FinalsWeek

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 26

The route deemed saponification,
Historical soap generation:
Now, path hydrolyzing
Is ester-incising
Through basic-solution causation.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 25

Brilliantly, diligently,
Rosalind Franklin:
Her crystallographic skills,
Insights display;
Her expertise, honed
In X-ray diffraction:
Unwinds major mystery,
Reveals DNA.

#NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 24

I think that I shall deem this eve
Of day to celebrate the leaves!
On morrow, Arbor Day awaits,
The verse-defying plants to fête.

#NaPoWriMo #EarthWeek #ArborDayEve #JoyceKilmer

A tree in springtime, with blossoming pink flowers

Summer trees: towering oaks creating a canopy of green.

A quote from Joyce Kilmer’s famous 1913 poem, “Trees.” The poem begins: “I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree.”

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 23

All’s well that ends well, in comprising
Five acts and a plot galvanizing.
The world’s for the staging,
With narratives paging
Through dramas’ iambic feet, rising.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #HappyBirthday #Shakespeare

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 22

On Earth Day, note worthy intention
Of science’s close-paid attention:
See patterns emerging
From threads’ new-converging,
Revealing enriching dimensions.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #EarthDay #Observation
#RobinWallKimmerer

$A quote from the essay “Learning to See,” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s GATHERING MOSS: A NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF MOSSES, first published in 2003. Kimmerer writes: “Slowing down and coming close, we see patterns emerge and expand out of the tangled tapestry threads. The threads are simultaneously distinct from the whole, and part of the whole... Knowing the fractal geometry of an individual snowflake makes the winter landscape even more of a marvel. Knowing the mosses enriches our knowing of the world.”$

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 21

Sustainable week’s dedication:
A topical, yearly summation
With views interfacial.
This April’s theme: glacial,
In spring season’s chem-celebration!

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek
#CCEW #Sustainability #Glaciers

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 20

A morning’s song from bird-soprano,
In tree-set melodic crescendo;
The view, reminiscent
Of project long-distant,
Past print in a type of cyano.

#NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday

A photograph of a robin on a tree branch, surrounded by blossoming flowers

A cyanotype of a bird sitting on a branch in springtime-- a past art project comparable to the photograph posted today

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 19

Element-naming:
Consider potassium,
Alkaline nature seen
Back in the day.
Saga through history:
Named after potash;
The Latin form, “kalium”;
Symbol is K.

#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 18

Same atoms; distinct connectivities:
Two isomers’ key descriptivities.
With “parts being equal,”
Second structure’s a sequel
To first, in atomic vicinities.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 17

A read of the term here is literal:
“One hundred steps” seen in the interval
From boil to freeze
As we scale the degrees
In the temp’rature’s centigrade water-fall.

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 16

Read past-astronomical ponderings,
Ideas of odysseys, conjuring.
Stars: fixed in the sky,
But some objects move by--
The planets, so deemed for their “wandering.”

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 15

A building-block term first-admissible;
To everyday vision, invisible,
The atom in logic
Most etymologic
Takes name from the Greek: “indivisible.”

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks #STEMVocab

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 14

Intro classes’
Sweeping natures:
Learn AND speak
The nomenclatures!
Some, acknowledged;
Many, hid;
Closer reads can
Build a bridge.

#NaPoWriMo #STEMVocab #IsaacAsimov

A quote from Isaac Asimov’s introduction to his 1959 book, WORDS OF SCIENCE AND THE HISTORY BEHIND THEM. The quote states: “Entering the world of mathematics and science turns into a meeting with a whole realm of new words... The scientific vocabulary is the bridge by which we enter the land, not the wall that keeps us out.” This week's poems will focus on some common scientific terms.

Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 13

With notes, marginalia, daydreaming—
Scrap paper as palette now seeming.
The lim’rick, non-thwartive:
A format supportive
In April’s routine, still-esteeming.

#NaPoWriMo #NearHalfwayPoint
#LimerickSunday #WritingCommunity

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Chemphasis @chemphasis.bsky.social · Apr 12

A heroine indelible in text…
Adventures, perplexed and complex:
A dawnzer’s lee light,
Creativity’s flights,
And keen interest in what happens next!

#NaPoWriMo #Limericks
#NationalLibraryWeek
#BeverlyCleary #RamonaQuimby