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This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Poems should be posted there after the start of the challenge Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.

Friday Fling #173 March 23rd 2012

We don’t know if you knew this, but every day of the year issome sort of  a Food Day! That’s right, and Friday March 23rd is National Melba Toast Day!

You know we like to do timely topics here on the Friday Fling. It’s been as much of a trademark as challenging you to try new formats, the weekly Fickle Finger of Fate Award and the party atmosphere we try to create.

So this week we –  the idea was Michelle’s – thought it would be a good time to poetically toast – toast! A breakfast fixture, and a lunch sandwich option absolutely necessary for that classic sandwich, the grilled cheese. Also used for canapes, hors d’oerves or however that is spelled, and various snacks.

How best to mount our toast toast? Well we just did the Triolet recently. But there is another format which alliterates. The Tetractys. ShadowPoetry.com notes:

Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also be reversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1

Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

and so on.

“Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own – Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain’s answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.” – Ray Stebbing

freedom

free
from you
your ego
your blaming me
i am a free spirit who has no past

Copyright © 2001 Terri Anthony

This week the Friday Fling Tetractyscally toasts toast!

Be sure to save time to read and comment terrifically on your fellow Pals’ Tetractyscal Toast. Then begin your weekend by toasting the wonders of your free time!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  March 16th

Congratulations Mary Margaret!