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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 #233 for May 24th 2013

Yesterday I discovered three Barnes & Noble gift cards from Christmases past. When I had them scanned I was pleased to learn they were worth over $36. So I looked in the store to find something to spend it on. Naturally I ended up checking out the travel section, and was reminded of the series of books by “Fodor.” Then I thought: what if Fodor sold perfumes instead of travel books? The company could be called Fodor’s Odors.

Which brought my mind to this week’s topic. Odors. What are your favorites, or your least favorites?

Since odors are mostly naturally occurring, I naturally thought of the nature format, the Haiku. A three line poem of 5-7-5 syllables.  Such as:

I love Spring odors.

Flower blossoms everywhere.

Lovely perfumed air.

Or if you want to write humorously about odors, how about the five line Limerick, where the rhymescheme is AaBba and the syllable count varies roughly 9-9-6-6-9? Such as this one I just wrote for this challenge:

Bunky the skunk was an odorous lunk

whose smell repelled bats out of Hell.

Never smelt his own first,

but what was even worse,

he complained of the stink of Chanel!

This week the Friday Fling smells something in the air in Haikus and Limericks!

Be sure to save time to read and comment fragrantly on your fellow Pals’ olfactory Poetic commentaries.

Then go take a whiff of your weekend!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  May 17th

Congratulations Ted!