CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Unconventionally Shares Conventional Wisdom!
Friday Fling #196 September 7th 2012
This week the Democratic National Convention convened. It got us thinking: did you ever attend some sort of a convention? More than one? What was the most unconventional convention you ever attended? Or if you never attended one, what do you think would be the ideal convention, or what does your muse conjure for a particularly fun convention?
To express your conventional thoughts, we thought it would be additionally interesting to express them in an unconventional manner with an unconventional poetry format, like a Triplet Monorhyme.
ATriplet Monorhyme has just two distinctive features: each stanza has three lines; and each stanza’s lines end in rhyming words. That is, the end words in each stanza rhyme with each other, though not necessarily with the words ending the lines in any other stanza.
A Triplet Monorhyme could therefore consist of just one three line stanza, or two, or more. As long as each stanza has three lines and the end word of each line in that stanza rhymes with the other two!
I hope you are still not confused about this format, because you can’t look it up. I just made it up for this challenge! See, unconventional as heck!
Here’s an example I just wrote for this challenge:
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
It was never my intention
to attend that convention.
I knew ‘twould create tension.
I expect a poor reaction
to my use of a contraction
like “‘twould;” just a distraction.
The truth is I can’t remember
whether it was in September
or later, in December.
In fact I can’t recall
anything at all.
This poem was just a stall.
Had this stanza been the leading,
this warning you could be heeding:
you’re wasting your time reading.
Copyright September 5th 2012 RGD
This week the Friday Fling writes unconventionally about conventions!
Be sure to save time to read and comment unconventionally about your fellow Pals’ recollections. Then go enjoy an unconventional September weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 31st
Congratulations Angel Love!
Conventions can be so exciting! First there’s the anticipation
then there’s the actual convening
followed by all sorts of events
including maybe even some pandemonium
and of course there’s the food
and afterwards, the memories
