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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 #190 July 27th 2012

We understand how we must be responsible for our own behavior. And we know how valuable our friends are. But do we realize how important a little luck can be?

Good fortune, Lady Luck, however you want to put it, personal honesty includes the need to consider how luck can make a difference. Fortunate circumstances of birth can affect opportunities as well as the other elements of success, ability and drive. Who you happen to meet can get to know can also make a difference. And we all know what it means to “get lucky.”

So this week we thought we’d explore the nature and role of luck in our lives.

To express this in an alalytical or story form, we’re suggesting you try Free Verse. Some of you already use this form regularly, which is really a lack of form, providing maximum flexibility in expressing yourself.  As ShadowPoetry.com explains:

Free Verse

Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme). In moving from line to line, the poet’s main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the
reader. Following the direction of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot, many modern day poets use this particular form of expression.

Ode to Job

Job came down
in a
woosh, outstretched
and gliding into the horizon.
Blue shadowed
flight
arrested by
the beckoning marsh.
His greatness bears
much
yet not
the anguish of ancient
prophecy.
Situated grievances weigh
feathery
on this long,
strong back. Unconscious
emotion
numbs while
time drifts out
another
sun salted
day.

Copyright © 2001 Lachlan Ivy

This week the Friday Fling explores and explains our ties to luck in Free Verse!

Be sure to read and comment freely on your fellow Pals’ productions. Then good luck with your weekend!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for July 20th

Congratulations Barbara!