The CPC Friday Fling Celebrates Columbus Day!
This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens on Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.
Friday Fling #149 October 7th 2011
It’s Columbus Day weekend! And we’re here to celebrate with Clerihews. As ShadowPoetry.com notes,
A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme,
aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem
is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first
line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.
Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers
No syllable count, AABB rhyme. Simple huh? We’ve done this format before on the Fling.
This week the Friday Fling kicks off Columbus Day weekend with Columbian Clerihews!
Be sure to save time to explore your fellow Pals’ poetic shores and comment commendably. Then sail away to new adventures over the weekend horizon!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for September 30th
Congratulations Mary Margaret!
Wow! I can’t believe Columbus day is close already! This looks great, (((Bob))) :love:
I am so ready for this one!!!