CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Favors Weekend Faves In Saturday-Sunday Sonnets!
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 EDT.
Friday Fling #227 for April 12th 2013
The Friday Fling has always tried to kick off your weekend with something worthwhile, with both some sort of inspiring topic and a format learning experience.
So this week we thought we’d suggest you write about your weekend! What is a favorite thing(s) to do on your weekends? What great experience(s) have you had on your weekends?
Since you may have more than just a little bit to say about such, we’re suggesting you write in a Kyrielle Sonnet about your weekend wonder(s).
According to ShadowPoetry.com,
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem. Therefore, a good rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
I went on a rampage with this format a few years ago.
Here are two examples:
TELL ME!
Oh how it makes me want to scream
Jump and slap you right through the screen
There ‘s more than beauty to be seen
Please, oh please tell me what you mean
Blind to the meanings of my writes
Why can’t you give me your insight
It always makes me cringe and careen
Please, oh please tell me what you mean
There’s nothing more for you to say?
Are you not moved in any way?
Don’t you share the same sorta dreams?
Please, oh please tell me what you mean
Oh how it makes me want to scream
Please, oh please tell me what you mean
Birthwrong
Another Kyrielle Sonnet (Someone Please Help Me! I Can’t Stop!)
and a Cheryl’s Pals’ Collab
by Scotorum
Born with a big slaphappy grin,
With a soul clean of mortal sin,
He arrived backwards, last his mind,
Blindsiding sideways from behind.
He came out sideways, had to bend,
Lucky the portal would wide extend.
A birth which soon became enshrined,
Blindsiding sideways from behind.
Due to his weird waving wally,
He came out diagonally.
Once outside, new talent to find,
Blindsiding sideways from behind.
Born with a big slaphappy grin,
Blindsiding sideways from behind.
© 2010 RGD
The birthing team which delivered a line: Colleen, Lady “Cheryl” Death, Wintah.
This week the Friday Fling Creates Kyrielle Sonnets about our weekend favorite(s)!
Be sure to save time to read and comment favorably on your fellow Pals’ Saturday-Sunday Sonnets.
Then if possible, go enjoy what you just wrote about!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for April 5th
Congratulations Barbara!
