POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The CPC Friday Fling Limericizes Monsters and Ghouls!
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 #152 October 28th 2011
It’s almost Halloween, and time for monsters, ghouls and other trick-or-treaters! We love them little critters here on the Friday Fling!
We also love Limericks! So we thought, why not put them together and make Limericks about monsters and ghouls!
As you almost certainly know, a Limerick is a five line poem of roughly 9-9-7-7-9 syllables in which the rhymescheme is AABBA. Usually the point is to amuse. For instance:
There once was a monster, Raoul,
who believed he was ever so cool.
He haunted a singles bar,
thought he’d get very far
showing ladies his monsterous tool.
Copyright October 25th 2011 RGD
A year or two ago Scotorum began writing what he called “Slim Limericks,” which have shorter lines of 7-7-5-5-7 syllables and in which there is an internal rhyme in the first line, but the first line does not rhyme with any others. In other words the rhymescheme is ABCCB. Like this:
A foolish ghoul named Raoul,
believing that he was hot,
went in a saloon
expecting that soon
he would find love; he did not.
Copyright October 25th 2011 RGD
This week the Friday Fling writes ghoulish Limericks and Slim Limericks about monsters and stuff!
Be sure to save time to read and comment ghoulishly on your fellow Zombies’ abominations – I mean your fellow Pals’ poetic masterpieces. Then, following a weekend of pre-Halloween merriment, take a friend trick-or-treating Monday night (before visiting the CPC’s Cheryl’s Pals’ line blog of course!).
As always, should the recommended format not be your preferred piece of Halloween candy, you may post your write in any format you like, or not.
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for October 21st
Congratulations Silver!
Looks like a lot of fun. Looking forward to it. Congrats to Cherie!