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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 #258 for November 15th 2013

Continuing the theme started in the CPC’s Thematic Attic yesterday,

this week’s Fling approaches another sort of lost; lost friends.

Unlike finding friends, which can be difficult,

friends, especially cyberfriends, are easy to lose.

Our lives change, or theirs do, or both do.

Friendships depend on maintaining communications,

which can reduce to zero for periods of time.

People move.  Or worse, die.

And before we now it, a friend is gone from our lives.

It hardly bears asking if this has happened to you.

But…is there one or more you would like to write about in a poem?

Or would you prefer to write about the realities

of lost friends in more general terms?

Please save time to read and comment thoughtfully

on your fellow Pals’ poetic productions.

Then go enjoy a friendly mid-November weekend!