The Friday Fling Goes On a Harvestime Hayride!
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!
Welcome everyone to the CPC Friday Fling’s Harvestime Hayride! Get your jacket and a thermos of sumpin tasty and take a poetic journey with us! If you don’t want to write a Sedoka, anything hayride related works too! The important thing is to be creative, have fun, and get straw in your pants!
Good Evening, Bob and Michelle. Thanks for yet another Fickle Finger Award. It truly makes me feel good knowing my writes are liked. Especially coming from two writers that I admire and respect. 😀 :love:
Found this on PB and had to share…LOL
Oh, and this one…LOL
Hard to believe that fall is just around the corner. Looks like a lot of fun. Always a wonderful blog and challenge.
I am so frustrated now and my photobucket is not uploading. Here is mine without the PnP…
This is a double Sedoka
The Haunted Hayride
Friends get together
Upon a wagon of hay
For a fun and spooky ride
Down the country road
And up on top of the hill
To an eerie haunted house
Monsters everywhere
The Grim Reaper is waiting
For visitors to arrive
While riding on by
Will they pass on through alive,
Or will they fall into doom?
Michelle R. King
9-8-11
This looks so much better with the pic…
I have two to post for Sonnets as soon as I can get photobucket to cooperate with me!
Hopefully It’s working now on my other computer..
This is by Sonnets!
And another Sedoka by Sonnets!
Thank you Lori for your contributions! :love:
this is a true happening way back when I was a teenager at a hay ride trip we did with the church..
Not a hayride per se, but seen from a hayride and trying the form . . . .
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AUTUMN’S DANCE
Summer breathes a sigh,
shadows of late afternoon
pointing the way to Autumn.
Leaves pirouetting,
waltzing upon fall breezes
as I marvel at their grace.
(c) barbara kausteklis 9-9-11
Wonderful poetry and presentations ALL!
hwhhehehehehhehehehehthhthththt hahahahhaha!!!! You’ll love thissen!!