{"id":107029,"date":"2013-05-23T00:26:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107029\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-smells-something-in-the-poetic-air\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T04:26:20","slug":"cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-smells-something-in-the-poetic-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107029\/cpc-poetry-challenge-preview-the-friday-fling-smells-something-in-the-poetic-air\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Smells Something In The Poetic Air!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Poems 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 #233 for May 24th 2013<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Yesterday I discovered three Barnes & Noble gift cards from Christmases past. When I had them scanned I was pleased to learn they were worth over $36. So I looked in the store to find something to spend it on. Naturally I ended up checking out the travel section, and was reminded of the series of books by “Fodor.” Then I thought: what if Fodor sold perfumes instead of travel books? The company could be called Fodor’s Odors. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Which brought my mind to this week’s topic. Odors. What are your favorites, or your least favorites? <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Since odors are mostly naturally occurring, I naturally thought of the nature format, the Haiku. A three line poem of 5-7-5 syllables<\/font>. \u00a0Such as:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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I love Spring odors. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Flower blossoms everywhere. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Lovely perfumed air.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Or if you want to write humorously about odors, how about the five line Limerick, where the rhymescheme is AaBba and the syllable count varies roughly 9-9-6-6-9<\/font>? Such as this one I just wrote for this challenge:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Bunky the skunk was an odorous lunk <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

whose smell repelled bats out of Hell. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Never smelt his own first, <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

but what was even worse, <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

he complained of the stink of Chanel! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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This week the Friday Fling smells something in the air in Haikus and Limericks! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Be sure to save time to read and comment fragrantly on your fellow Pals’ olfactory Poetic commentaries. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Then go take a whiff of your weekend!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Fickle Finger of Fate Award for\u00a0 May 17th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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Congratulations Ted!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


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<\/a> \"smelling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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