CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Writes Stories About Favorite Characters!
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 P.M. EST.
Friday Fling #158 December 9th 2011
As those in the northern two thirds of the US and all of Canada tend to be spending more time indoors in December, we tend to spend more time reading and watching, and in…Daydreams. Here’s one: if you could be a character in a story, who would it be? Tell a story with you as that character.
This week we’re going to suggest you write your story in one of CPC founder Cheryl’s favorite formats, the Villanelle. Shadow Poetry.com explains the Villanelle as:
A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa. The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order (as the last line of succeeding stanzas) throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).
Runaway
Why do they runaway?
My soul so beautiful, so bright
But for some reason I keep them at bay
Sometimes I wish they would stay
They give up on me without a fight
Why do they runaway?
Some think I am pretty, I say I’m okay
Though this doesn’t feel right
But for some reason I keep them at bay
What can I do, what can I say?
What causes their flight?
Why do they runaway?
Just when I think I’ve won their heart, they stray
I feel like the farthest planet in the night
But for some reason I keep them at bay
What have I done to chase them away?
My soul beckons to them like a beacon of light
Why do they runaway?
But for some reason I keep them at bay
Copyright © 2000 Julie Wright
This week the Friday Fling creates daydreamy stories in Villanelle!
Be sure to save time to read and comment dreamily on your fellow Pals’ visceral Villanelles. Then go create the next chapter of your real life story this weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for December 2nd
Congratulations Angel Love!
