Peril Of Research Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Peril Of Research

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As I looked for the origins of 'dilemma',
I was diverted by 'dipchick. Same as dabchick.'

Flipping to that:
it's the Little Grebe,
which rhymes with Beeb,
dweeb, glebe,
Antibes and Delibes.
The third of those
I hadn't heard:
it's the soil, a field, a clod
and the land attached to a parish church.
A glebe-house is a manse -
the house of a clod.

Back to 'dilemma':
it rhymes with tremor, condemn her,
lemma and stemma.
Lemma is interesting but I'll leave it to you.
A stemma is a garland, a scroll, a pedigree,
an ocellus and a family tree.
The plural of ocellus is ocelli;
stemma's is stemmata, not stemmi.

Peril Of Research
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: dilemma,bird,soil,tree
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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