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November 21, 2009 - Saturday

The Friday Fling Goes Nuts Over Nonets!
Category: Writing and Poetry

In music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of nine people. In poetry, according to ShadowPoetry.com,

A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second line eight syllables, the third line seven syllables, etc... until line nine that finishes withone syllable. It can be on any subject and rhyming is optional.

line 1 - 9 syllables
line 2 - 8 syllables
line 3 - 7 syllables
line 4 - 6 syllables
line 5 - 5 syllables
line 6 - 4 syllables
line 7 - 3 syllables
line 8 - 2 syllables
line 9 - 1 syllable

Example:

a pirates playground

the ocean is a pirate's playground
they live their lives upon the sea
battles are fought to the death
the loot is divided
they drink to those lost
set sail again
a pirate's
life for
me

Copyright © 2003 Mark Williams

We're still in an economic slowdown. This is the time of year when increasing cold tends to slow things down. Water freezes. Insects die. It gets light later, and dark earlier. In the north especially, birds and other animals including people, tend to hunker down in shelter.
So the topic this week, which I think the Nonet might be particularly well-suited to express, is Slowing down. It could be going slow to be more careful, to try to find beauty in the landscape, to just take it easy and enjoy little things.

Time to slow down and smell the...Chrysanthymums! Although even those are mostly dead now in New England, where winter's chill is in the air. As I write this, it's already below freezing and the forecast the low overnight will be only twenty degrees Fahrenheit!

This week the Friday Fling we're dressing to the Nines and taking it slow with Nonets!

Be sure to take your fellow Pals' writes slow as well, and comment with care. Then go savor every moment of a Wonderful Weekend! -Bob/Scotorum

frozen landscape Pictures, Images and Photos

My frozen Landscape Pictures, Images and Photos

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November 20, 2009 - Friday

~Rainbow Days~ Thematic Attic with DiLinda Hill
Category: Writing and Poetry

Welcome once again to Thematic Attic with DiLinda A. Hill

I would like to thank Lady Cheryl for having me here again with you all today! I so enjoy being here and sharing with all of you, it has been my total pleasure. Today, I want you to express what your rainbow days are like. How do you feel when you see a beautiful rainbow in the sky. How does a rainbow make you feel inside. We all have different colors of rainbows that we can share. In my poem I posted is a poem that is in my new book coming out about my rainbow days! Everyone feels different about rainbows. Some laugh, some think its magical, some think the color are awesome and it makes us feel warm and full of life. Colors have a way of making us feel better and different inside, even when we are sad, or feeling like the world is against us. Take your time, sit back and enjoy your rainbow for you deserve it wholeheartedly!

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November 19, 2009 - Thursday

IT'S THAT TIME - GIVE ME ONE MORE LINE (CLOSED)
Current mood:

adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry

THIS BLOG CLOSES AT 6 PM WEDNESDAY!!!!!

PLEASE REPOST OUR BULLETIN!!!

HERE'S MY LINE:

Dangling there in midair (Lady "Cheryl" Death)

THE RULES ARE BELOW
One Line per comment please - so other folks can play off your line!!!

Come for Simple Sunday's
International Tour
Next stop France!!!
22 November 2009

Featuring Gabrielle

"JAZZ"

And Join us this Wednesday For

DON'T FORGET KUDOS

IF YOU ARE NEW PLEASE

MAKE A FRIEND REQUEST

AND REMEMBER

Did you know that ONE in EIGHT people FORGET to give Kudos????

If you have fun here drop a Kudo too!!!

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November 19, 2009 - Thursday

Wonderful Wednesday is Sharing Blessing w/ Butterfly
Current mood:

breezy
Category: Writing and Poetry

It’s time another Wonderful Wednesday here at the CPCCC!

Tonight we will be

"Sharing Blessings"

Breezy and Butterfly welcome you with huge open arms because you are truly counted among our blessings. Friendship is one of those wondrous things that make the heart smile, burdens lighter and happiness much sweeter.

As we approach Thanksgiving I hope it ignites many thoughts and inspiration of the many things that surround you that enrich you and you may have overlooked because "life" sometimes does that to the best of us. Please stop, take a moment and come share your blessings in whichever format you wish. Feel free to use any of the pics below as inspiration or share your own.

Poor Turkey is blessed he hasn't been found yet!!!!

Sharing a holiday meals

Unadulterated Joy

Taking a moment to just be

Beauty of a Sunset

A lovely break

Cup of coffee

Let the Happy Dance begin!!!! And pwety pwease don't forget to show sum love with the Kudos!!!!!

~ Smooches ;)

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November 17, 2009 - Tuesday

"Sweep Me Away" Magic Monday w/LadySeda
Current mood:passionate
Category: Writing and Poetry

It is Monday again… hello everyone. I hope your weekend was restful and you’re all charged up to begin another week. In entertaining the kids this week I slipped into a relapse of memory and found something wonderful… I hope you will share it with me.

~ Getting Swept Away ~

Ever listen to the blues… have the music reach down and twist your innards until you feel the need to stomp your feet and wave your arms in agreement… just as the joy bursts out from inside your soul in a joyous WOOT of jubilation… (Yeah… that was me… lol)

I got swept away… carried away on passion, on a feeling that would not be contained.

Reach down within yourself this week and find a spark of that passion. Recall, or find a moment that carries you off into emotion.

Allow yourself to get swept away… and capture the experience in prose, in picture, and in verse.

Let the passion rain over you and share a bit of that with us today. Below is the song that swept me away…. I hope you’ll give it a listen.

I look forward to our time together this week and cannot wait to get carried away. Please take time to show appreciation to each other by leaving comments and kudos. Thank you all for taking a bit of time in your day to share with us.

Let the passion peek out for a bit today and share it with us. I hope that the images or the music inspire your muse to sweep us off our feet. Now grab your pens, find your ink, and let us make some Magic…

Blessings LadySeda

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November 16, 2009 - Monday

A Simply Sunday makes its third stop on the international tour in Costa Rica with art by ALBA
Current mood:

tired
Category: Writing and Poetry

Welcome

To week three

of the world tour of

A Simple Sunday

I’m your hostess

Sevenamagenta

This week we welcome one of the original pals back as featured artist!

Miss Alba comes to us from Costa Rica. She

is a phenomenally talented woman. She

writes, paints & draws. She’s also a

photographer and a creative digital artist.

Our Featured Art:

“The Dialogue”

*******As Always*******

Make sure to credit the artist for her

work (especially those of you doing pic ‘n

poems) just as you would expect to be

credited for your own original work.

Let’s keep a healthy exchange of respect

flowing.

Do your best to comment on the

work of your fellow pals. A

little bit of support goes a long

way.

Here’s a set of spoken word poems to get you started:

..
Comment | Copy This

Leave us a kudo to let us know we’re doing a good job.

Try to write a bilingual piece, if you're looking for an extra challenge!!!!

Now…..lose yourself in the colorful art!!!

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November 15, 2009 - Sunday

Cheryl's Pals Saturday Share - Come One, Come All!!! (GET YOUR COLLAB ON)
Current mood:

adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry

Please let me know if this is your first Collab Post on the CPCCC

Also please subscribe and make a friend request!!!

WELCOME TO THE
Cheryl's Pals Collabs'

Saturday Share Blog

Cheryl's Pals gave me One-More-Line On Tuesday

And for Creating the Poems with the lines, I posted the lines at
“The Get Lost in The Lines” Blog on Wed (Please click the poster below)

ANYONE CAN WRITE A POEM USING THE LINES GIVEN

This is the Blog where the poets who created Poems from getting "Lost in the Lines", post their Poem.

Please Oooo and Ahhh after each Poem even if you don't have a Poem to put up or did not provide a line on Tuesday. Comments are welcome. Feel free to comment as much as you want too

Tell us which poems have your line

Come Meet the Pals Who Gave A Line

I hope I got everyone!!!

Several in Fact - one on each poem would be nice

AND REMEMBER

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November 14, 2009 - Saturday

CHERYL'S PALS GET LOST IN THE LINES WITH ME (WED -SAT COLLAB CHALLENGE)
Current mood:

adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry

PLEASE READ THE 'ABOUT ME' SECTION ON THE CPCCC PROFILE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 'CHERYL'S PALS' COLLABS' POETRY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Special Thanks go to the Pals
who reposted comments by you guys who FORGOT your freggin names at the end of your line. If we missed any, well......too bad LOL

Be Creative and Have FUN!!!

But follow the Collab Rules below

For examples on Cheryl's Pals Collab poetry formats
Check out these Wow Poem Selections

Last weeks Wow poems will be announced on That RE-Verse Blog Talk Radio Show along with this Comming Saturday's selections

Then I will send ot the certificates

Here are the last selections announced

So on Sunday 15 November 2009 go to or call in to Reverse to find out who we are giving Wow poems to:

Your lines for this weeks Challenge are posted in the first comments

THIS IS NOT A POEM!!!!

THESE ARE LINES FOR THE CHERYL'S PALS COLLAB POEMS - YOU CHOOSE THE LINES, EDIT THE LINES, AND GIVE ME A POEM ON MY SATURDAY POST!!!

Remember you have through Saturday to draft up poems.

Cheryl's Line

You Must use This Line:

Frost sparkles upon the ground (Lady "Cheryl" Death)

The Saturday Share Blog will be posted on Nov 6th, 2009 at ~9pm Eastern- that's Friday night LOL!!!

Contributors names are listed at the end of each line, so that you may site the PAL's whose lines you chose.

Please use lines from several folks in your collab !!!!!

DO NOT POST ANY POEMS HERE
THAT'S WHAT WE DO ON THE CHERYL'S PALS SATURDAY SHARE BLOG!!!

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November 14, 2009 - Saturday

The Friday Fling Goes Villanuke-lear!
Category: Writing and Poetry

About two months ago CPCCC founder and manager Lady "Cheryl" Death introduced a new poetry format she called the "Ukanelle." It was a hybrid of two of her favorite existing formats, the Villanelle and the Ukiah, a variation on the Haiku which she had invented in the spring of 2007, a three line poem of 7-5-7 syllables rather than the Haiku's standard 5-7-5.

The Villanelle is a 19 line poem in six stanzas of 3-3-3-3-3-4 lines, in which the first and third lines are repeated alternately as the third line of the following stanzas, the first lines of succeeding stanzas rhyme the same as those lines, and the second lines all rhyme with each other.

In the final four line stanza, the first line rhymes with the first line in the poem as well, the second line with all the other second lines, and the last two lines are the poem's first and third lines. Thus there are actually only eleven different lines in a Villanelle.

The Ukanelle requires the three lines in the first five stanzas not only rhyme ABA, but they must also be limited to 7-5-7 syllables.

Sevenamagenta

When we featured Lady Cheryl's Ukanelle format in the Friday Fling challenge CPCCC about six weeks ago, CPCCC staffer and hostess Sevenamagenta wrote her own variation on that,

which followed the Ukiah's and Ukanelle's syllable count format limits and the Villanelle's line structure, but did not have rhymes. It was a fine poem, and I dubbed it then the Villanuke.

Let's try this new format this week on the Fling! Here is Sevena's original:

Deliciously Flawed

Poet deliciously flawed
invoked attention
realism reeled me in

his voice dances inside prose
my mind melts for this
poet deliciously flawed

spitting truth so politely
not to frighten me
realism reeled me in

smoking drinking music man
no apologies
poet delicously flawed

a heart that appreciates
values truth AND love
realism reeled me in

accepting him truly helped me
to accept myself
poet deliciously flawed
realism reeled me in

No particular topic this week, do whatever you feel like writing about, but try to do it as a Villanuke. If you have trouble counting syllables, I'd be glad to review your write and offer editing tips, or you can just post in the format of your choice.

The important thing is to be creative and have fun! And in any case be sure to read and comment generously on your fellow Pals' writes, and then have an inventively interesting weekend! -Bob/Scotorum

PS: As we did with the Ukanelle and Michelle K's Palinku, each Villanuke posted will be announced to be one of the first twenty ever written! So far, "Deliciously Flawed" is the only one ever done! Another chance for you to help pioneer a new poetry format on the Friday Fling!

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November 13, 2009 - Friday

Thematic Attic Thrusday with DiLinds Hill - Cheryl's Pals Creative Collab Corral
Category: Writing and Poetry

I would like to thank Lady Cheryl for having me here again today hosting Thematic Attic and I hope that Jon will be back with us soon. Today, I was think that we could learn from one another about the eyes of our soul. Some say, that the eyes are the windows to our soul. Other have said that their are some people with a third eye. Some have said, that when we look into the mirror we are looking at a reflection of ourselves and not the real person for the eye turns the refection around to display a picture in our minds. Some have said, never trust an person with shifty eyes, for they are lairs. Whatever helps you to take a look in the mirror I Challenge you today, not to judge one another, but take a good and close look at yourselves and write about a time your eyes, helped you, forsake you, loved you etc.. Have a good time doing it and dig deep inside yourselves first. Remember, we are talking about the things we don't usually talk to others about, rather if we are venting and leaking our pain or cleaning the skeletons out of the closet. We all had see things and been through something we don't like to talk about, when we talk about what is deep within us, it makes us stronger to help ourselves and to be there to help one another. So, today the "Eyes have it!" LOL!!!

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