CPC CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Goes Back To School!
This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.
Friday Fling #143 August 26th 2011
It’s that time again, when kids of all ages go BACK TO SCHOOL! What does or did that mean to you? Were you cool, or feeling the fool? Calm and collected, or nervous in the service? What did/do you most or least look forward to? What are your favorite recollections or expectations of the beginning of a school year?
We’re going back to school in more ways than one, because we’re asking you to consider writing about past and present back to school thoughts, feelings, situations and experiences in the format known as Triolet!
A Triolet is an eight line poem consisting of five different lines. The first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh. The second line is also the last. Line 6 rhymes with 2 and 8, while all the others rhyme with each other. So the rhymescheme is ABaAabAB.
Here’s an example:
Another school year has begun.
New things to learn, new friends to meet.
Here comes the bully, run run run.
Another school year has begun.
You toil until your day is done.
Your butt sore from that hardwood seat.
Another school year has begun.
New things to learn, new friends to meet.
Copyright August 23rd 2011 RGD
This week the Friday Fling writes Triolets about going back to school!
Be sure to save time to read and comment in at least a pseudo-scholarly way on your fellow students Triolet term poems. Then get off the bus and enjoy your weekend before you have to go back to school again Monday!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 12th
Congratulations Dee!
Back to school for me means back to work! See you at the fling with a triolet (((Bob!)))
Back to school this year meant getting buses to stop & had trouble with one Got it taken care of next day was happy until at same time she handed me a 2wks. notice Lost 2 ..One school starting I will not forget:)