Ambulation: Alphabetic Discussion of Styles of Gait

(a melange of limerick-verses)

short verse including a terminal ‘pre-amble’ , developed by the authors on OEDILF.com,and then displayed on their personal blog,

terse poem posted recenty on their personal blog, highlilighting synonyms for ambling, i.e. walking at a leisurely pace

Authors’ Note: Hot to trot is an intriguing established idiom, as reflected by its many tribute-verses, such as this one.

Not to trot, a variant employed in the above verse’s final line, has received considerably less attention.

short poem, a type of extended limerick, dealing with both passive and active climbing

Authors’ Note: Although the difference is no longer well-demarcated, wiggling originally implied movement in place without forward momentum, as in squirm, twist or jiggle. Wriggling, like the directionally motivated activities crawling and tunnelling, may be the ambulatory technique to choose when escape from entrapment is needed.

terse verse dealing with faltering gait and its synonyms

terse verse dealing with hurrying and its rushed synnyms

short verse dealing with more athletic ambulation in unimproved terrain

terse verse dealing with ‘hopping’ by toddlers ,and imitative precipitous movement by adults

The Limerick medley/potpourri is a collection of short poems related to a specific topic. Initially, each entity was developed on the collaborative site OEDILF.com, then published individually (sometimes with added photos or illustrations) on our personal blog “Daily Illustrated Nonsense” , and grouped for topic-dependent display on “Edifying Nonsense”. The twenty-odd collections recently made available to readers of “Medium” are listed with links on the doggerel-posting “***Bar-Fauna Verses*”.