I've been writing limericks with my grandchildren. \u00a0Although I never find it easy to construct a good one where the story develops through the 5 lines, it's usually a fun process. [*]<\/p>\n
I was tempted to write haiku with them, but didn't. \u00a0With haiku, it's a relatively trivial process to generate the 3 lines and 17 syllables needed, but fiendishly hard to write one that does justice to the genre. \u00a0They are ideally suited to environmental themes.<\/p>\n
Here's the haiku that I've contributed to the latest volume of NAEE's\u00a0Environmental Education. <\/em>\u00a0It was in response to a request for people's experience of the virus-induced lockdown. \u00a0I'll let you judge the quality ...<\/p>\n .........................................................<\/p>\n [*] I once had a limerick censored. \u00a0Fittingly, it was in Limerick where my gentle satire on the poor management of a conference was wiped from the record by a humourless organiser. \u00a0This was a long time ago, and he will have forgotten. \u00a0I obviously haven't.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I've been writing limericks with my grandchildren. \u00a0Although I never find it easy to construct a good one where the story develops through the 5 lines, it's usually a fun process. [*] I was tempted to write haiku with them,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}People hide away<\/h4>\n
Held hostage by a virus.<\/h4>\n
Butterflies blossom<\/h4>\n