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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 9 PM EST.

Friday Fling #205, for November 9th 2012

Sunday is Veterans’ Day, sited on the day the Armistice was signed ending World War I in 1918. World War I had been by far the most devastating war in history, although far fewer Americans died in it than in the Civil War of the 1860s when both sides were Americans.

So this week we are getting very serious on the Fling and celebrating the sacrifices of our men in uniform, some of whom just died in the Muslim raid on the American embassy compound in Benghazi Libya, and many more who have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as too many wars before that.

The format of choice is one which is specifically intended for expressing thoughts and feelings related to human actions and relations, the Japanese format called the Senryu.

The Senryu is easy to explain because it is exactly the same as ther Haiku format which we just featured two weeks ago.   Both are three line poems consisting of five, seven and five syllables each, totalling seventeen syllables in however many words it takes to reach that total.

This week the Friday Fling commemorates Veterans Day by remembering the sacrifices of American servicemen and women in Senryus.

Be sure to read and comment respectfully on your fellow Pals’ poems. Then go enjoy a perhaps extended Veterans’ Day weekend!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for November 2nd

Congratulations wildfire1!