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Poetry Friday: Limerick Day with a twist

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It’s Poetry Friday and I had planned to come up with a post, and didn’t get around to it. SO it has been sitting there on my to-do’ list while I did a thousand other things.

And then a friend tagged me in this Facebook post:

and, after I stopped giggling, I knew I had to share this.

Maybe you needed the laugh too, so I hope you ‘get’ it. But also, I spent a good part of this week running writing masterclasses for talented young writers – and the topic was poetry. One of the messages I always try to get across is that sometimes breaking the rules – of format, or of expectations around a topic, or of what is or isn’t a word – is the thing that makes your audience take notice.

Here, on Limerick Day, this haiku demonstrates my point perfectly.

Poetry can make a difference.

Now I am off to take some deep breaths of tired satisfaction after a week that included poetry, and much more, in various satisfying combinations. Then I’ll spend some time browsing the other Poetry Friday posts, via the round up on Robyn’s blog.

Happy Limerick Day!

Comments

  1. *snort* I love both the sassy haiku you shared and Patricia’s limerick! Here’s to poems that break the rules!

    • Thanks Janice. I can imagine someone sitting down to write a limerick and then just going ‘nah – I’ll do a haiku instead’. Clever!

  4. Happy Limerick Day, Sally – though by now you are probably ahead a couple of days or something from where I am. ;0) Thanks for all the important work you do (aside from offering humor breaks) – lucky students!

    • Thank you Robyn. I actually think that I am luckier than the students. They fill me up – with their willingness to share, with their humour, with their wisdom, with all kinds of things.

    • Thanks Linda. I love how sometimes just the right message comes along from u8nexepcted places.

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