{"id":105743,"date":"2013-04-17T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/105743\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-takes-oxymorons-downtown\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:21:38","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-takes-oxymorons-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/105743\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-takes-oxymorons-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Takes Oxymorons Downtown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. \u00a0Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Friday Fling #228 for April 19th 2013<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>
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\n A famous historian once equated civilization with cities. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Urbanization was said to provide more opportunities for social communication of ideas of all sorts, <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

which led to innovations, organizations, rules, order and higher culture. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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This may be a controversial notion. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Given the occurrence of various evils in cities such as violence, <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

it might even be an oxymoron to use the term “civilized city.”<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Our topic this week is to <\/font>write about a city, real or imagined, <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

and\/or anything about it, from your actual personal experiences, <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

to what you think you know or can imagine about cities.<\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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An added challenge is to <\/font>use at least one oxymoron<\/font>. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

An oxymoron is a two word phrase in which the two words have opposite meanings and when combined, <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

create a new meaning. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Here is an example of one that Michelle wrote awhile ago. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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A Lonely Soul <\/font><\/p>\n

She was homeless and all alone\u00a0
\n Her lunch was half eaten cold toast\u00a0
\n Quickly stopping her hunger moan\u00a0
\n She was homeless and all alone\u00a0
\n A living dead life was her zone\u00a0
\n The silent screams she feared the most\u00a0
\n She was homeless and all alone\u00a0
\n Her lunch was half eaten cold toast <\/font><\/p>\n

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Michelle Marko King\u00a0
\n 09-10-12 <\/font><\/p>\n

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Michelle included an oxymoron in every line above. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The oxymorons were: <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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all alone\u00a0
\n cold toast\u00a0
\n quickly stopping\u00a0
\n living dead\u00a0
\n silent screams <\/font><\/p>\n

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Here is a list of ten possibilities which you could use in your urban poem: <\/font><\/p>\n

1. Jumbo shrimp\u00a0
\n 2. Guest host\u00a0
\n 3. Mutually exclusive\u00a0
\n 4. First-strike defense\u00a0
\n 5. Upscale downtown
\n 6. Pretty ugly\u00a0
\n 7. A little big\u00a0
\n 8. Old fad\u00a0
\n 9. Smart bomb\u00a0\u00a0
\n 10. Good grief <\/font><\/p>\n

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This week the Friday Fling considers how civilized urban life is,<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

and tries to communicate it with an oxymoron!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Be sure to save time to read and comment unmoronically on your fellow Pals’ observations. <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Then go enjoy an urbane weekend!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Oh and please click on the number next to the heart at the top of this blog to register your presence and show that you support our challenges!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Fickle Finger of Fate Award for\u00a0 April 12th<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/font>Congratulations Angel Love!<\/strong><\/font> <\/strong>
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Love! \"<\/a> \"<\/a> \"<\/a> \"Harbor<\/a> \"<\/a><\/p>\n

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