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Friday Fling #269 January 31st 2014

This week, for the first time ever, we’re reprising a reprise!

A Friday Fling past.  This one was originally posted

on MySpace January 29th, 2010.

The references are of course all from that time.

All the pics are the originals from the 2010 blog.

The reprise was #165, posted January 27th, 2012.

It had 14 likes, 354 views and 268 comments

including well over a dozen poems.

The original had a general theme

of writing the new format invented accidentally

by our former co-host Michelle King.

The 2012 reprise added a romance theme.

Here is the slightly edited intro text for that 2010 challenge:

For last week’s CPC Magic Monday challenge,

Michelle K. posted a PicnPoem Tanka titled “My Dream Lover.”

There was one small problem, which she herself

was probably first to recognize.

It wasn’t really a Tanka, a Japanese format

similar to a Haiku with an additional stanza

of two seven beat lines.

Instead of 5-7-5 7-7, her poem was 7-5-7 7-7.

If anyone needs to take the blame for that error,

I will point out that the Ukiah,

a format which (CPC founder) Cheryl invented,

is probably the most likely culprit.

An Ukiah is one stanza of 7-5-7,

just like the first stanza of Michelle’s poem.

I dubbed Michelle’s poem an “Aknat”

and suggested it should be pronounced “ahk-not”

so it would not be confused

with that insurance company with the duck.

I also thought it kind of sounded like an Egyptian god.

I promised Michelle in my comment on her poem

that I would feature her format on the Fling.

(We already featured her other new format,

one she developed deliberately, the Palinku,

a Palindrome with Haiku-style stanzas,

in a previous Fling last fall.)

All hail Aknat, the God of Poetry! 7-5-7 7-7!

The Magic Number of total syllables is 33!

Or as JFK might have said,

Aknat what poetry can do for you,

Ak what you can do for poetry!

Here’s Michelle’s poem to use as an example:

This week the Friday Fling writes romantic Aknats!

Be sure to also take time to read and comment reverently the other Pals’ posts.

Then go on a pilgrimage to a most uplifting weekend!

As always, if you prefer not to write in the suggested format,

you can post whatever you are moved to create.

We’re here to be creative and have fun!