“In April starts rhymed resolution:
Frame STEM terms in new distributions
Through verse forms familiar.
The metrics auxiliar
Yield chem-art-poetic collusion.”
The 1 April 2024 Twitter limerick began my sixth attempt at National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo); it also provides a good opportunity to return to this website’s posting routine, for the 2024-25 academic year.
“In April starts rhymed resolution: /
Frame STEM terms in new distributions /
Through verse forms familiar…”
A calendar year has many different types of starts. The two most obvious are January 1, of resolution fame, and the start of the academic year in late August. However, it’s also been fun since 2019 to add a small, self-contained routine in April, writing thirty poems over the month’s thirty days, for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). Most of these poems are science-themed: “STEM terms in new distributions / [t]hrough verse forms familiar.”
“The metrics auxiliar /
Yield chem-art-poetic collusion.”
A common theme on this website is that using the artistic techniques of light verse can perhaps help illustrate chemistry concepts in a supportive way. The lines of limericks and double dactyls ideally become “metrics auxiliar.”
The month is a chance to formally explore the overlap of chemistry, art, and poetry, described in verse form as “chem-art-poetic collusion.” The thirty resulting poems from April can then provide the substance of several future weeks of posts’ topics here.
Chemphasis 