CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Fetes Friday With Friolets!
This is a special preview of the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday at 9 PM EDT.
Friday Fling #224 for March 22nd 2013
The Friday Fling has been held on Fridays…since the Friday Fling began. That was 223 Fridays ago.
Since Friday has been our exclusive temporal host since the beginning, we’re beginning to feel a little guilty about not having shown our appreciation of that. So to assuage our guilt and show our appreciation for Friday’s )albeit involuntary) hospitality, we are making Friday the topic of this week’s Fling!
Anything related to Friday! Fish on Friday. Friday’s child. Even his Girl Friday and Sergeant Friday! And of course, end of the workweek Friday!
To fete our favorite weekday, we are suggesting you try writing a Triolet.
As usual we are cribbing from ShadowPoetry.com’s descrption of a format:
A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.
Make writing a Triolet more challenging! Make each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet), written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or try it in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables (5 metrical feet).
My Heart Residing in Thy Chest
In response to Shelly’s, “The Indian Serenade”.
For, break it shall and so it must
My heart residing in thy chest
When placed in care of lover’s trust
For, break it shall and so it must
Passion’s ashes returned to dust
This lonely heart is laid to rest
For, break it shall and so it must
My heart residing in thy chest
Copyright © 2003 Dan Tharp
We’ve done this format before on another Flingertwo in the past. But this one will be unique because it will be about Friday. In fact that will make it so unique, it will deserve its own name…a Friolet!
This week the Friday Fling Fetes Friday with Friolets! No they are not some new kind of corn chip – those are Frito Lays!
Be sure to save time to read and comment unFrivolously on your Fellow Pals’ Friolet recipes. Then go enjoy the couple of Free days which Follow Friday!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for March 15th
Congratulations Ted!
