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 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

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

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

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

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

A radical initiation Begins with bond-breaking notation. Ensuing, next steps Allow varied prospects. (Some cases, polymerizations.) #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #OrganicChem #Mechanisms #RadicalChemistry

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

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

Brilliantly, diligently, Rosalind Franklin: Her crystallographic skills, Insights display; Her expertise, honed In X-ray diffraction: Unwinds major mystery, Reveals DNA. #NaPoWriMo #DNADay #RosalindFranklin chemphasis.com/2021/03/30/s...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deftly, inventively, Percy L. Julian (Born on this date in 1899) Works at his lab bench with Techniques organic on Corticosteroids’ Synthetic design. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #PercyJulian chemphasis.com/2021/03/18/t...

One metaphor most vivid for poetic inspiration: / The spark of creativity in supersaturation. / A sudden-seen assembly: solute’s newly found formation / Yields crystallizing product from excessive concentration. #NaPoWriMo #SciencePoetry #NationalLibraryWeek #MargaretAtwood

An avian, brass-themed musician; A writer of web compositions: Indelible stories Form mind’s lab’ratories, Imaginative in ambition. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #NationalLibraryWeek #EBWhite #CharlottesWeb #TrumpetOfTheSwan

One year since a 3 p.m. midnight, An opportune pause in the sunlight; A brief interaction With solar subtraction: Eclipsing occasion in hindsight. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #EclipsingInteractions #TotalSolarEclipse2024

A fluttering, dancing occasion ‘Twixt floral and bay wave equations? The hue of the daffodil: Absorption of xanthophyll! Chem words, worth poetic persuasion. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #HappyBirthday #Wordsworth

For stories in wondrous locations; For resources; for inspiration; For questions advisory… We’re drawn to the library: A welcome site, found in translation. #NaPoWriMo #LimerickSunday #NationalLibraryWeek #DrawnToTheLibrary #TranslationalMotion

An etymologic devotion Of abbreviational notion; “Hg” as the symbol For metal most nimble: Quicksilvery liquid in motion. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #ElementNames #Mercury #Hydrargyrum

A shift both routine and elysian; A blend between wonder and reason... Past winter's endurance, Returning assurance: Repeated relief of spring's season. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #RachelCarson #ASenseOfWonder

In intro chem classes, find note on Identification schemes rote: yon Wall-chart periodic Yields info methodic— Sorts matter by number of protons! #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #PeriodicTable #AtomicNumbers

Begin here by setting the Table: Collection of hist'ry, trends, labels. On chem walls by way of One D. Mendeleev: As theme, it's a STEM-poem staple. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks #SciencePoetry #PeriodicTableOfTheElements

A new metric month-long ambition! This seventh attempt at tradition, With change in the scen'ry In midst of new green'ry: A first try as Bluesky edition. #NaPoWriMo #Limericks

The temp’ratures, suddenly rising; A walk in the spring rain enlivens. Note circles concentric, As info calendric Sees April emerge on horizon. #LimerickSunday #NearingEndOfMarch

Mid-March on a math-centric Friday: A trip through a poetic byway With five-line-framed structure Of constant-verse juncture To highlight occasion of Pi Day. #Limericks #SciencePoetry #PiDay

A synthetic route, framed idyllic: Beginning with site “carbonyl-ic”; First steps are fulfill-ed As chem of the ylide Blends nucleo/electro-philic… #WittigReaction #Limericks #SciencePoetry chemphasis.com/2025/02/26/n...

A thaw last week, in first month's ending; A river, once frozen, now rending. Chem thoughts paraphrasing: The changes are fazing, With hallmark of winter now pending. #PhaseChanges #SciencePoetry #LimerickSunday #GroundhogDay

Flasks and beakers; funnels, sintered; “Spring” begins in heart of winter. (Morrow’s syllabi, still pending, As this Sunday winds t’ward ending…) Math conversions; distillations; Structure-function celebrations; Ethers, amides, ketones, esters; Onward to the new semester! #SpringSemesterStart

‘Tis the third day of Christmas; I’m noting in post / Some holiday movies remembered the most, / Citing clarion call of the metrical trumpet / From “out on the lawn” and “the top of Mount Crumpit.” #ClementMoore #DrSeuss chemphasis.com/2024/12/27/m...

Grades, submitted; winter, breaking; Merry measures, music-making; Fast away the old year passes; Celebrate the end of classes. #EndOfSemester #DeckTheHalls

Exam week… and last panegyric Extolling new site of chem lyric: A step energizing In verse-enterprising; A blue shift, in terms atmospheric! chemphasis.com/2024/12/11/p... #Limericks #SciencePoetry

December’s new site iteration From previous posting location: Poetic spirality Befitting chirality; Enantiomeric elation. chemphasis.com/2024/12/04/m... #SciencePoetry #Limericks

Analysis, retrosynthetic: Week’s shift to new setting, poetic. Most posts, periodic, Through meters methodic Frame chem-writing themes, theoretic. #SciencePoetry #Limericks