{"id":97440,"date":"2012-10-04T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97440\/poem-charge-fling-brigade\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:45:11","slug":"poem-charge-fling-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97440\/poem-charge-fling-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Charge of the Fling Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was written as part of the commemoration of the 200th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/97402\/friday-fling-celebrates-200th-poetry-challenge\/#comment-288118\">CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Historical\/?action=view&amp;current=Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Historical\/Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\"><strong>THE CHARGE OF THE FLING BRIGADE<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Through the valley of cyberlife rode the two hundred<br \/>\nFriday Fling challenges for all poetic types.<br \/>\nThinking and feeling and typing it out,<br \/>\nexpressing deep joys and great sorrows and gripes.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Recession, depression, impressions, dissentions.<br \/>\nHarmonies, destinies, festering agonies.<br \/>\nAspirations, disinclinations, prevarications.<br \/>\nEcstasies, vagaries, theories Pythagorese.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Everything human and anthropomorphic,<br \/>\nnaturalistic and extraterrestrial,<br \/>\nin wording anathema to astigmatic,<br \/>\nengraved forever in some realm celestial.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong>Here&#8217;s to the warm souls who make it all happen,<br \/>\nwho come by to write and to see and be seen.<br \/>\nHandwriting dramas to smiles and some clappin.&#8217;<br \/>\nDiverse individuals sharing a scene.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Copyright October 4th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written as part of the commemoration of the 200th CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. THE CHARGE OF THE FLING BRIGADE Through the valley of cyberlife rode the two hundred Friday Fling challenges for all poetic types. Thinking and feeling and typing it out, expressing deep joys and great sorrows and gripes. Recession, depression, [&hellip;]<\/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-97440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97440","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=97440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}