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This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday at 9 PM EDT.

Friday Fling #145 September 9th 2011

Now that we’re past Labor Day weekend, we tend to start thinking Fall. On the traditional American farm, Fall means harvest time, and harvest time means – hayrides!

Have you ever been on one? More than one? What was it like? Or if you’ve never been on one, would you like to take one this fall? What do you imagine it would be like? Enquiring fellow poetic minds want to know!

To make your creation more challenging, may we suggest you write a Sedoka.  We’ve done this format before on the Fling, but not in many months.

It’s another Japanese format like the Haiku and Senryu, with three unrhyming lines of five and seven syllables each. The difference with the Sedoka is it is 5-7-7 syllables, and there are two stanzas instead of one. Usually each stanza covers a different aspect of the topic or approaches it from a different perspective. So you have a bit more space to express yourself than in a Haiku or Senryu or even a Tanka. Like so:

After Labor Day,
Autumn is not far away.
Cooler weather will prevail.

Harvesting the hay
in farmers’ abundant fields,
requires hayrides to the barn.

Copyright August 5th 2011 RGD

This week the Friday Fling parties hearty on a harvestime hayride!

Be sure to save time to read and drop off bales of beautifully bound comments. Then go eat your Wheaties, separate the grain from the chaff and enjoy your weekend!

If the suggested format goes against your grain, you may post anything you choose to create which is related to the topic.

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for September 2nd

Congratulations Rebel!