The Friday Fling Investigates Obsessions!
Friday Fling #232 for May 17th 2013
From time to time in my life, I have acted a bit like Mr. Toad in the Wind In The Willows story.
I have been known to get really involved in something so deeply, usually some hobby or activity or source of enjoyment, that it might more rightly be labelled an “obsession.”
Most recently, I have spent a lot of time learning about “craft beers,” and tonight spent $19 on just eight bottles I had never tried!
No. I did not drink any of them yet. I’m not constituted to drink much alcohol, it tends to make me tired. I make a sleepy drunk LOL.
But the fact is that that a month ago, even a week ago, I would have considered it folly to spend so much money on beer. I like beer, but until now I would have spent $16 on a 30 pack case of something cheap which would take a month or more to consume.
So this challenge is at least personally timely. That is, our Fling topic this week is about an obsession of some sort you have had or have.
Or put another way, write a passionate poem about some personal passion!
A moderately lengthy format may be best for you to describe your obsession and its history. So we are suggesting the Ottava Rima, a format which can vary in length according to your preferences, as noted on ShadowPoetry.com:
A Ottava Rima is a poem written in 8-line octaves. Each line is of a 10 or 11 syllable count in the following rhyme:
one octive poem. abababcc
two octive poem. abababcc, dededeff
three octive poem. abababcc, dededeff, ghghghii
…so on and so on
He is There
When sorrow lies entrenched within your heart
And doubts, like ocean waves, around you churn,
When chaos reigns o’er life and won’t depart
And for the peace of yesterday you yearn,
When evil thoughts are tearing you apart
And there is nowhere left for you to turn,
When dark of night persists throughout your day,
It’s time to fall upon your knees and pray.
For God is there, He’s always by your side,
He is your life’s companion and your friend,
He’s with you through each bitter storm you ride,
From morn’s first light to sunset at day’s end.
You must give up your bitterness and pride
And to your Lord extend your hand again.
He only wants for you to ask Him in
And you will be forgiven for your sin.
Copyright © 2003 Linda Newman
So your poem can be eight, sixteen or twenty-four lines long.
This week the Friday Fling puts the O in obsession in Ottava Rimas!
Be sure to save time to read and comment unobsessively about your fellow Pals’ poetically expressed passions. Then go follow your obsession for a fun weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 10th
Congratulations Bettie!
These pics represent just a few of the possibilities!
Welcome to the Friday Fling’s Obsession with Ottava Rimas! That is with using the format to write about an obsession – pull up a ten or eleven syllable line and see what your muse can do with it eight, sixteen or twenty-four times over!
I love to shop went here and everywhere
But, nothing could compare to TJ Maxx houseware
Every time I was off or had some cash
Buy and not worry if I had any extra stash
Thought money was here and would always last
But, then the day came I had too much it past
Many of those pretty things I have still today
Enjoy in every way and didn`t give away
BREWING OBSESSION
I always liked ingredients by smell
As well as by their combinations’ taste
But when poured internally they can swell
your stomach like some pig’s butt you could baste.
Oh beer! can make a heaven out of hell
with alcoholic high. Yet time may waste
if moderation’s bounds are overstepped
and into drunken stupor mind has crept.
Ottava Rima Copyright May 17th 2013 RGD
CHOCOLATE TREND
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I could so eat chocolate by the gates
Surrounds and sprawling on the grounds
Many would be wonderin how much I ate
While eatin this chocolate makin not a sound
Just how much I would spend is a going rate
I could see chololate all around
Peanut cur chew almond many dates
Not many chololate would be found
Cholesterol would be my lease destiny
Can you image this of this old lady
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Written By: Bettie Davis ————————— © May , 15 2o13
Still playing catch-up, but sometimes you just have to put work aside and have some fun, Right? 😆
I’m still trying to figure out where to go to replace Photobucket – which has become completely unworkable and totally unresponsive. Nevertheless, here’s my “naked” contribution!
Dubious
Strolling slowly along a willowed brook,
pondering nature in all her splendor,
wondering why, and just how long it took
to smooth the stones, the course to render;
and where else would the water go, or I to look,
for meaning in streaming thoughts engendered?
Where rains will cut a lasting impression,
I can but book this feeble expression.
Dawn becomes evening in ordered time;
the stars hold still their mythical patterns.
Away in the distance the church bells chime;
paintings remain on the walls of caverns.
When will age and sage fall into perfect rhyme?
When will the Sun and Moon align with Saturn?
Questions become a sort of obsession,
answers wrapped around a weak confession.
© Ted Meredith, May 2013
Just a few of my favorite obsessions . . . .
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JUST A TAD OBSESSIVE
I have been known to obsess at least a tad,
getting involved in a rather time-consuming way
about this or that but over nothing ever bad,
usually just a matter of how I spend my day;
not thinking about what I wish I had,
but finding fun things to do along the way;
and then at day’s end picking up my pen
and writing about what I did and will do again.
I obsess about the birds singing in the trees
and about the flowers blooming this time of year,
about crashing waves and kites flying in the breeze;
and butterflies dancing among rose petals here
as musical notes of every shape and form appease
and calm my mind as they allay any fear.
And these several obsessions I gladly share
with friends I’ve found here who truly do care.
(c) barbara kausteklis 5-17-13
All wonderful obsessions and pieces posted. :love: :love: :love:
Special thanks to everyone who posted this week! It will be very difficult to pick a Finger winner!