Well, what’s this?
The first unscheduled announcement at Braille 200?
No joke, no fake, no spam, for real!
We’ve just stumbled upon a funny little literary curiosity.
Tomorrow is what literature fans might know as Clerihew Day.
Clerihew was an English author who created a humorous form of short poetry.
Especially charming: his very first clerihew was written out of boredom, and here comes the painful part, dear teachers, during class.
A clerihew is a short, four-line poem that deals with famous people.
So it fits Braille 200 perfectly, doesn’t it?
Here’s a quick one we just pulled out of our sleeve and straight into the keyboard:
Louis Braille:
His code went off the rail!
He cracked the code for reading,
Now Braille is all we’re needing.
OK, so we were actually hoping to encourage you to send us your own clerihews at braille200@livingbraille.eu.
But for this one, we probably deserve rotten fruit.
Or maybe a sad-looking lettuce.
Fair enough.
But now it’s your turn!
Feel like writing a few clerihews of your own? You’re very welcome to send them in your native language too!
You’ve got time today and all the way through tomorrow evening.
We’ll publish all the poems, unedited and in their original form, tomorrow evening on our usual channels.
We’re super excited to see your little flashes of brilliance.
And don’t worry, we’ve already set the bar… well… somewhere around ankle height.
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