FriendBurst Blog

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.

Friday Fling #193 August 17th 2012

This month Ted Turner’s cable movie station TCM is featuring a different actor or actress all day each day in August. So we thought this would be fun: you pick from their list and write a poem about why he or she is a favorite of yours!

John Wayne
Myrna Loy
Johnny Weissmuller
Marilyn Monroe
Claude Rains
Van Heflin
Sidney Poitier
Rita Hayworth
Toshiro Mifune
Lionel Barrymore
James Mason
Ginger Rogers
Deborah Kerr
James Cagney
Lillian Gish
Elvis Presley
Katherine Hepburn
Freddie Bartholomew
Eva Marie Saint
Anthony Quinn
Kay Francis
Jack Lemmon
Gene Kelly
Irene Dunne
Tyrone Power
Gary Cooper
Jeanette MacDonald
Ava Gardner
Ingrid Bergman
Warren William
James Caan

To honor your favorite, try a Triolet. As ShadowPoetry.com notes,

A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.

Make writing a Triolet more challenging! Make each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet), written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or try it in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables(5 metrical feet).

Mourning Twilight

Embrace twilight and bid farewell
to passion’s warmth and sweet caress.
A grave’s prepared where she will dwell
embrace twilight and bid farewell.
O hear the mourning of her bell
that tolls for sorrows you supress
embrace twilight and bid farewell
to passion’s warmth and sweet caress.

Copyright © 2003 Mary Ellen Clark

This week the Friday Fling elebrates acting favorites in Triolets!

Be sure to save time to read and comment favorably on your fellow Pals’ productions. Then go enjoy a mid-August weekend, maybe including a favorite film!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 10th

Congratulations Cherie!