CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Celebrates Washington’s Birthday!

February 20, 2013 · Scotorum

This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens at 9 PM EST.

Friday Fling #220 for February 22nd 2013

Although “Presidents’ Day was just celebrated Monday,

February 22nd is Geroge Washington’s actual birthday.

It used to be a holiday before it was combined with Lincoln’s on the 12th to make Presidents’ Day.

So this week we thought it would be fun to “Remember George Washington.” You can do this in any way you choose. A general memorial for any one or more of Washington’s many roples in American histoy, from planatation manager at Mount Vernon, to French & Indian War General, to Revolutionary War leader, to Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention, to First President of the USA.

You can be serious or amusing. For the former, the Ode is a good choice.” As noted at ShadowPoetry.com,

An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing.

An Ode To Dreamers

When dreamers dream
And lovers love
Do they receive their visions
From heaven above?
Or do they originate
Where all things start
Within our minds
Within our hearts?
I know not all
But what I do know is this
You cannot build a Kingdom
Upon a flimsy wish
So believe in your dreams
Follow them blind
Lest you loose them all,
To the hands of time.

For the latter, we recommend the Clerihew, described bvy ShadowPoetry.com thus:

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.

Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.

As an additional challenge, see how many of the American flag colors you can include in your poem!

This week the Friday Fling celebrates The Flagship Founder in Odes and Clerihews of red, white and blue!

Be sure to save time to read and comment on your fellow Pals’ poems.

Then go enjoy the two days after the actual birthday of George Washington!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for February 15th

Congratulations Diane!

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