CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Contemplates This Date!
This is a special preview for the CPC’s Friday Fling poetry challenge.
Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EST.
Friday Fling #262 for December 13th 2013
It’s Friday the Thirteenth!
What does that mean to you?
To a lot of people traditionally it was a day
to take special care to watch out for bad luck.
What better time to write about luck, good fortune or bad,
or the significance of Fridays the Thirteenth past?
We will recommend you try to write your thoughts and feelings
in a Limerick. As Shadow Poetry.com notes,
A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines which originated
in Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick has a set rhyme scheme of :
a-a-b-b-a with a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9.
The rhythm of the poem should go as follows:
Lines 1, 2, 5: weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak
Lines 3, 4: weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak, STRONG, weak, weak
An example I wrote for this challenge:
There once was a thirteenth, a Friday
when bumps were felt along life’s highway.
Ever since it’s been thought
that a lesson was taught.
If you want some good luck, pass by that day.
Copyright December 11th 2013 RGD
This week the Friday Fling tests our luck
and writes about Friday the Thirteenth!
Be sure to save time to read and comment fortuitously
on your fellow Pals’ luscious Limericks.
Then go enjoy a post-Friday the Thirteenth weekend of good fortune!
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