**Jiggery-pokery : a compendium of double dactyls**
by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander (1967)
https://archive.org/details/jiggerypokerycom00hech
(sadly the link above is just a preview, not a full PDF scan)
#doubledactyl #poem
Works by Hect, Hollander, Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, Paul Pascal, James Merrill, Eric Salzman, Nancy L. Stark, E. William Seaman, Arthur W. Monks, Richard...
Higgamus, hoggamus,
Mary of Nazareth
Said, "As the virginal
Mother of God,
I'm as proficient at
Parthenogenesis
As a stingray, amoeba,
Or gasteropod."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-an-aquarium-stingray-get-pregnant-without-a-mate/
(apologies to my Uncle Ted who rhymed up an original #doubledactyl #parthenogenesis #poem decades before I added stingrays to the mix today [edit: ted was reciting Hecht/Hollander to young me, see my reply comment]
Higgledy Piggledy
Poetry Factory
Isn't somewhere I would care to do time.
Rescuing QurlyJoe
Quasi-poetically
Seems an appropriate use of a rhyme.
Ziggity zaggity
Julia Donaldson
Wrote of a witch who once
Fell off a broom.
After encountering
Pseudohistorical
Beasties, our hero took
Off with a ZOOM!
Probably someone with more talent who spent more than 5 minutes on it could do better, but here's a quick stab at one referring to "Room on the Broom". Literally as I type this I realise I should end it with "room".
Because I accidentally nerdsniped myself today:
Mirroring, schmirroring
Albert A. Michelson
Wanted to find out which
Way aether moved.
Shining some light around
Relativistically
Michelson-Morley found
Aether's disproved.
Hanukkah Hanukkah
Judah the Maccabee
Led a revolt with
Guerrilla techniques
Later the Temple was
Monotheistically
Rededicated with
-out any Greeks.
Klay
Alex Chaffee
Paul McKone
Will T
Colin Watson
Michael Kleber