CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Wings Its Way To Villanellaville!
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 #194 August 24th 2012
This week on Friday we’re gonna Fling it
and let you go ahead and wing it.
Anything goes as far as a subject;
None will be frowned on or labeled a reject
as long as it is not too rudely crude
to make readers spew coffee recently brewed.
So take out your museable mighty cerebrum,
contemplate something poetically yum yum.
Lay it upon us to partake this day,
to bring out the sunshine and chase away gray.
We’re thinking to increase this challenge’s strength,
we suggest that you write in a form with some length.
One format our founder thought was quite swell;
so we recommend you write a Villanelle!
Shadow Poetry.com notes: A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).
This week the Friday Fling wings it to Villanellaville!
Be sure to save time to read and comment tellingly on your fellow Pals’ winged wonders. Then go enjoy the weekend in your own special way!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 17th
Congratulations Angel Love!
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Nibblin a doughnut
plantin my round butt
office chair’s squeakin its needin some oil
Strummin my keyboard
Playin my muse chord
Smellin the coffee beginnin to boil
Chorus:
Writin away again in Villanellaville
Searching for my last musings of soul
Some people claim that I’ve got rhymes on the brain
But I know, that it’s just how I roll.
Lyric rewrite of Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”
Copyright August 20th 2012 RGD
VILLANEW
Time to write a new Villanelle,
A popular poetry design.
What you know it helps you to tell.
Just keep in mind, to do one well,
you must sometimes repeat a line.
Time to write a new Villanelle.
Some time on rhymescheme you must dwell
to make it come out really fine.
What you know it helps you to tell.
Read it over, it should not smell.
Make sure there are ten lines plus nine.
Time to write a new Villanelle.
Then check your spelling for a spell.
A word buffet for friends to dine.
What you know it helps you to tell.
When you’re done, your poem will be swell.
Then you can pour a glass of wine.
Time to write a new Villanelle;
what you know it helps you to tell.
Copyright August 23rd 2012 RGD
This was one for the CPC’s Thematic Attic Thursday on a favorite teacher
A GOOD CASE OF INFLUENCA
Barry Beyer was a favorite
taught history and government
In his classes I would gladly sit
American history fit
my indurance fascination bent
Barry Beyer was a favorite.
Straighforward with a biting wit.
Broad knowledge generously lent.
In his classes I would gladly sit.
Trip to state capital a hit
shook hand of future Vice President.
Barry Beyer was a favorite.
International relations bit
into the time’s greatest events.
In his classes I would gladly sit.
Yearbook dedicated to his grit.
To my college he was then sent.
Barry Beyer was a favorite.
In his classes I would gladly sit.
Copyright August 23rd 2012