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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 8 PM EDT.

Friday Fling #186 June 29th 2012

As we move into the hottest part of the summer of 2012, we’re inclined to want find a cool shady place to just sit and contemplate. These are the times when muses tend to drop their ruses of being too pooped to pop.

So we thought, let’s give yours a chance to pop by challenging him or her to create a poem in a not-so-old format! In fact either in a brand new format which Mr. or Ms. Muse just came up with, or one which various CPC Pals’ muses have created in just the last few years!

Formats like the Aknat, a Tanka with attitude, 7-5-7 7-7 syllables in five luscious lines in two short stanzas! Or the Ukanelle, a Villanelle with three line stanzas made of Ukiahs (7-5-7 syllables)!

And then there is the Ukiah itself, invented by CPC founder Lady “Cheryl” Death in 2007 purely by joyful accident, a Haiku that took a hike and ended up with 7-5-7 instead of 5-7-5 syllables! And don’t forget the Cheryl’s Promenade, a Villanellish thing of 19 lines with the third line in each stanza repeated as a refrain!

But you need not do your any-subject poem in any one of these particular formats. Invent your own and claim the road to Immortality. (Did I include the “t”? Oh good LOL)

So this week the Friday Fling gets’ super-creative with invented formats!

Be sure to read and comment inventively on your fellow Pals’ poetic conjurings. Then go invent a great summer weekend!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  June 22nd

Congratulations Ted!