{"id":115827,"date":"2014-03-27T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115827\/the-friday-fling-gets-its-poetic-feet-wet-celebrating-spring-rain\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:00:07","slug":"the-friday-fling-gets-its-poetic-feet-wet-celebrating-spring-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115827\/the-friday-fling-gets-its-poetic-feet-wet-celebrating-spring-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Gets Its Poetic Feet Wet Celebrating Spring Rain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/strong><\/font>Friday Fling #275 for March 28th 2014<\/font><\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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It’s the end of March already,<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

and we’re anticipating “April showers.”<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

So our theme this week is:<\/font> rain.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Or more generally, the features and powers of water.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Since this is a nature topic,<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

we thought it would lend itself well to the <\/font>Haiku,<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

a poetry format developed specifically to celebrate nature.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

It’s also one of the simplest formats,<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

consisting of only <\/font>three lines of 5-7-5 syllables<\/font>.<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s an example:<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Raindrops keep falling
\n New growth keeps growing in Spring,
\n nurtured by the rain.<\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright March 25th 2014 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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We encourage you to do more than one of these<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

on the topic of rain and water!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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This week the Friday Fling gets its poetic feet wet<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

writing Haikus about rain and what it’s made of!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Be sure to save time to read and comment nurturingly<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

on your fellow Pals’ moist Haikus.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Then go enjoy a fine early Spring weekend!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Don’t forget an umbrella just in case!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n


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Friday Fling #275 for March 28th 2014 \u00a0 It’s the end of March already, and we’re anticipating “April showers.” So our theme this week is: rain. Or more generally, the features and powers of water. \u00a0 Since this is a nature topic, we thought it would lend itself well to the Haiku, a poetry format […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}