The Friday Fling Smells Something In The Poetic Air!
Friday Fling #233 for May 24th 2013
Do you smell that? What IS it? Well for one thing, it’s this week’s Fling topic. Odors. What are your favorites, or your least favorites?
Since odors are mostly naturally occurring, I naturally thought of the nature format, the Haiku. A three line poem of 5-7-5 syllables. Such as:
I love Spring odors.
Flower blossoms everywhere.
Lovely perfumed air.
Or if you want to write humorously about odors, how about the five line Limerick, where the rhymescheme is AaBba and the syllable count varies roughly 9-9-6-6-9? Such as this one I just wrote for this challenge:
Bunky the skunk was an odorous lunk
whose smell repelled bats out of Hell.
Never smelt his own first,
but what was even worse,
he complained of the stink of Chanel!
This week the Friday Fling smells something in the air in Haikus and Limericks!
Be sure to save time to read and comment fragrantly on your fellow Pals’ olfactory Poetic commentaries.
Then go take a whiff of your weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for May 17th
Congratulations Ted!
Welcome to the Friday Fling’s odification of odors! Pull up a fragrance or a stink and let your muse sniff it out and see if it becomes inspired to write a Haiku (or an Ukiah) or a Limerick!
This is a variation on the Limerick I developed a few years ago, where instead of the first line rhyming with the second and fifth, there is an internal rhyme in the first line, usually involving a name. A variation on that, with 7-7-5-5-7 syllables, I called a Slim Limerick. This one is a sort of hybrid between that and a real Limerick, and for that matter between a Clerihew and a Limerick.
Limerick –
THE STINKY FELLOW
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There waz a guy name Bart
He always makes stinky fart.
Always when people were dine
And he did but think it waz fine
For all would just say ark art
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Written By: Bettie Davis ————————– © May 24 , 2o13
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Haiku –
LINGERING SMELLS
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Drip drop went the tap
What faint smell
Came from the outta room
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Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————– © May 24 , 2o13