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November 29, 2009 - Sunday
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Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry
This week the share is on tour at niKi Rocks BlogSpace!!!!Click the poster below
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November 28, 2009 - Saturday
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November 28, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: Writing and Poetry
 It's Thanksgiving week. Have you ever thought about the turkey?
It's an awkwardly constructed thing, a bird too big to fly much, a double chin that people call a "beard," a long neck at the end of which is a head way too small for its body. It shares its foot style with and has feathers like a chicken, but it sort of gobbles instead of clucking. It likes to travel in a family or a gang or something.
It's downfall is that because of all this, it's pretty defenseless. Even the Pilgrims, not known as a particularly ruthless bunch, could kill one easily with a big old kind of blunderbuss that scattered whatever was poured down it all over the place.
Worst of all for the poor thing, it's delicious AND low fat!
What does this rant have to do with the Friday Friggin' Fling? Well...I read this book once that was titled "Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down." Turkey Day reminded me about that symbolism of the comparison of the turkey with goofy, misguided people. Lady Seda's Monday challenge this week was to write in metaphors. "Don't let The Turkeys Get You Down" might be considered an excellent metaphorical statement.
So...since the Fling likes to be contemporary and go with the flow of life, I thought this week we would try writing about turkeys you have known. Could be in poem form, could be a short short story.
If a poem, it could be any format or no format, your choice. If you want to use a set format, I could recommend the Clerihew, which are usually about people. The Clerihew, according to ShadowPoetry.com, is
a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
One of the most remembered Clerihew from Bentley's collection is:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Here's a couple of more recent Clerihews:
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.
Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers
The Road Runner
always almost a goner;
when attacked in manner dread,
Wile E. suffers intended fate instead ....
Copyright © 2004 Alan McAlpine Douglas
The Clerihew format is just a suggestion. The important thing is to take advantage of this unique opportunity to vent about one or more of the turkeys in your life. Perhaps ponder when one of your friends turned into a turkey and got you down - what would you like to say to them? Or describe qualities or behaviors that you find silly, dangerous, obnoxious or in some other way turkeylike.
This week the Friday Fling goes Turk and feasts on Fowl Balls!
"Mamma says, if you can't say somethin' nice about somebody, don't say nothin' at all." - Thumper, in Bambi. This week, to that we say: pffft!
Be sure to comment consonently on your fellow Pals perorations. And then fly out to a decidedly unfoul well-done weekend!
Here are the Fickle Finger of Fate Awards for October 9, 16, 23 and 30. Yes I finally am getting caught up!
  
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November 26, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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November 26, 2009 - Thursday
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Current mood: adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry
It is my pleasure to present MIZ NANCY's Poem "Dream Dancer" for this months Pick-Apart-Poetry challenge!!! Please welcome MIZ NANCY and comment on each others Pick-Apart poem  I so look forward to see what you all bring !!!
Much Love,
Lady Cheryl
Dream Dancer
In my restlessness I daydreamed
Walking into a dark deserted corridor
A showdow of my lost self
Looked down on me
And mocked my movements
While--
Breathing every thought I had
I came upon a giant clock
I pulled myself up to the base
And peered over the edge
There on an opal floor I lay
Cool and reflective of my soul
The shiny surface gave me calm
The iron hands came towards me
Welcoming me a place to sit
Perched and statuesque I stayed
Feeling much lighter than air
Floating slowy and softly
Balancing -- I rose
Now I could measure my existence
Minutes beneath my body
Gave me the most needed time spent
With every tick I felt a jerk
Getting closer to the final hour
I did not have need of steps
These hands would carry me
Tick
By
Tock
Minute By Minute
I danced on the hands of time
My shadow lingered on the opalescent field
Now I was nearing the last of the journey
Going Up Ward to the 12 th number
Shiney and golden
A tresure the colour of Heaven
Each hourly symbol before
Had created a comfort zone
This escape I chose
Would conclude my sleepless dance
Floating On Time
A gift much sweeter than a night of dreams
So calming to be carried by strong hands
This floatation gave a reason to be aware
Of enjoying the compatability of time well spent
Especially when sleep betrayed me
The minutes becoming my friends
I no longer despised this insomnia
My shadow joining me
We smiled
And climbed down into daylight
"Tomorrows" would come again
miz nancy/ kick that shit right otta da barn c2009
MIZ NANCY
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November 26, 2009 - Thursday
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Current mood: adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry
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November 24, 2009 - Tuesday
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Current mood: smart
Category: Writing and Poetry
Hello poets, artisans, and pals. Welcome to another Magic Monday here at the CPCCC. So much going on this time of year it is hard to stop and catch a breath sometimes… but here we can take a moment to reflect, be inspired, and create. I look forward to our time together today as we dip into something a bit different….
METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING
Have you heard that FRUIT… is GOD’s CANDY???? And if it is FORBIDDEN, it is tempting beyond belief???
Have you heard that METAMORPHISIS Implies change within… even though the butterfly changes its outer skin?
We all recall that ACHILLES HEEL was not exclusively describing his body part…
We all use this in our creative mind… flipping words off the tongue when we speak and not realizing we are doing it. Today I would like us to focus on the METAPHOR.
Stretch your mind and pick anything you wish to describe. As you write about the action, the topic, the scene… discover the correlation to other things.
Below are some links that may be useful if you find yourself struggling to find a subject today, but I hope you will give this topic a try. Think of it as an exercise in description and let your imagination take over. When you open your imagination you will find this quite easy to do… I promise.
Thank you for taking some time to play today. Please remember to share your encouragement by leaving comments for your fellow poets and clicking the ever important kudos. I would also like to invite you back near the end of the day for a surprise assignment for next week. I will post it Later in the day. I hope you find something to capture your imagination. Now dip into your ink, tickle your imagination and let’s make some MAGIC!!!
Blessings everyone ~Lady Seda~
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November 23, 2009 - Monday
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Current mood:  pensive
Category: Writing and Poetry
Welcome
to week 4 of
A Simple Sunday
on its international tour
I'm your hostess Sevenamagenta
This week we make our stop in Chaumont, Champagne-Ardenne, France with:
If you haven't checked out her profile...click the link above to enjoy more of her beautiful artwork.
About the artist (by the artist):(roughly translated)
Training self-taught artist. Member of the Association of Artist Lorraine since 1974. A part of numerous group exhibitions.1978 3rd International Award of the Bays 1981 2nd prize Angels International des Vosges 1981 3rd prize Art Contemporain, Reims 1984 1st prize of the Lions Club of Haute-Marne 1985 1st prize of the General council of Haute-Marne 2001 1st prize Lions Club Haute-Marne Metissage abstract art and figurative work
"Gabrielle Hollensett-Grugier reminds women of Gaugin's paintings, the brushstroke nervous and accurate a Picasso in his expressionist period...so many topics it suggests a clever stroke, in perfect harmony with the events that shake the world..." Carole Colliet...Le Journal de la Haute-Marne
Our Featured Art:
"JAZZ"
************AS ALWAYS************
Make sure to credit the artist for her work (especially those of you doing a pic ' n poem) as you would want to be credited for your own original art/poetry. Respecting the exchange if ideas...
Try to comment on the work of your fellow pals....a little bit of support goes a longgggggggggg way!
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Here's a bilingual piece to get you started:
Un Melange Jazzy (A Jazzy Mix)
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Leave us a kudo to let us know you were here...a quick way to let us know that we're doing a good job. Love Love!
NOW....get lost in the colorful art!
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November 22, 2009 - Sunday
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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
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November 21, 2009 - Saturday
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