CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Takes Oxymorons Downtown!
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 #228 for April 19th 2013
A famous historian once equated civilization with cities.
Urbanization was said to provide more opportunities for social communication of ideas of all sorts,
which led to innovations, organizations, rules, order and higher culture.
This may be a controversial notion.
Given the occurrence of various evils in cities such as violence,
it might even be an oxymoron to use the term “civilized city.”
Our topic this week is to write about a city, real or imagined,
and/or anything about it, from your actual personal experiences,
to what you think you know or can imagine about cities.
An added challenge is to use at least one oxymoron.
An oxymoron is a two word phrase in which the two words have opposite meanings and when combined,
create a new meaning.
Here is an example of one that Michelle wrote awhile ago.
A Lonely Soul
She was homeless and all alone
Her lunch was half eaten cold toast
Quickly stopping her hunger moan
She was homeless and all alone
A living dead life was her zone
The silent screams she feared the most
She was homeless and all alone
Her lunch was half eaten cold toast
Michelle Marko King
09-10-12
Michelle included an oxymoron in every line above.
The oxymorons were:
all alone
cold toast
quickly stopping
living dead
silent screams
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Here is a list of ten possibilities which you could use in your urban poem:
1. Jumbo shrimp
2. Guest host
3. Mutually exclusive
4. First-strike defense
5. Upscale downtown
6. Pretty ugly
7. A little big
8. Old fad
9. Smart bomb
10. Good grief
This week the Friday Fling considers how civilized urban life is,
and tries to communicate it with an oxymoron!
Be sure to save time to read and comment unmoronically on your fellow Pals’ observations.
Then go enjoy an urbane weekend!
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