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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 at 9 PM EST.

Friday Fling #170 March 2nd 2012

Last Wednesday was a day that only happens once every four years – and we don’t mean the day after the Michigan primary, although it is. Of course we are referring to Leap Year Day.

So this week we’re challenging you to take a flying leap – year into March, in a Sedoka.

No a Sedoka is not a Sixties singer. That was Neil Sedaka. A Sedoka is a poetry format which, according to ShadowPoetry.com, is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives. Katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.

Disturbing Raven

Dark clouds cloak the night;
chilly winds creak gnarled branches,
grasping as bony fingers.

Disturbed Raven squawks
at frightened children – screaming,
then laughing – they throw him treats.

Copyright © 2004 James Dean Chase

This week the Friday Fling leaps into the third month of the Leap Year with a jumping Sedoka!

Be sure to save time to read and comment soaringly on your fellow Pals’ leap year literary creation. Then leap into the first weekend of March!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  February 24th

Congratulations Bettie!