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This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 8 PM EDT.

CPC Friday Fling #192 August 10th 2012

What zoo animal describes you?

Are you cute and cuddly like a lion cub?

Comical like a monkey?

Tall and reaching for the heights like a giraffe

or perhaps expressive like a roaring bear

or deliberate as a tortoise?

Or?

Whatever it is, tell us, if possible in a Cinquain. Shadow Poetry explains:

A Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed
as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey.
(For further information, please scroll down for an article on Cinquain from the SP Quill
Quarterly Magazine written by Deborah P Kolodji.)

Another 2-4-6-8-2 variation, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:

Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.

Example:

angels
kind beyond words
they protect and forgive
and make feelings of blissfulness
cherubim

Copyright © 2003 Erin Holbrook

This week the Friday Fling goes to the zoo to see you and write about it in Cinquains!

Be sure to save time to read and comment zoo-logically on your fellow Pals’ poetic analogies. Then go explore the flora and fauna of your weekend in your own instinctive way!!

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Fickle Finger Award For August 3rd

Congratulations Angel Love!