CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Expands Language in Ukiahs!
NB: This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST.
Friday Fling #209, for December 7th 2012
Writers are limited not only by time and space, relationships etc. but also by language. The words available to express oneself is limited, as witness even the largest dictionary, the contents of which is not infinite; it still has a beginning and an end.
So once in awhile, a creative writer may consider that a particular feeling or thought cannot be rendered clear enough using existing words. He or she can do the best with available words. Or…invent a new one!
Our challenge this week is to invent a word for something that you think is better than anything now available in the English language, and use it in a short poem. We also encourage your invented word and your poem to relate to winter or the holiday season.
In case you have trouble making up a good word, here are a few suggestions:
foygle
urplishness
kissletoe
wipple
glurg
presentologism
funkilicious
holiation
shakenguesser
toddyhogger
stockenstuffy
ingestitude
The recommended format for your write this week is the Ukiah. “Ukiah” (pronounced “Ookah”) is “Haiku” in reverse. It was the first new format developed on the CPC, back in 2007. Like the Haiku it is a three line poem, but the syllable count is the reverse of a Haiku, that is 7-5-7 syllables rather than Haiku’s 5-7-5.
This week the Friday Fling writes Ukiahs with an embedded invented word!
Be sure to read and comment inventively on your fellow Pals’ Ukiahlicious creations. Then go invent a wonderful weekend for yourself!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for November 30th
Congratulations Bettie!
OK, that last one was just for me Scotorum 🙄 