The Friday Fling Takes a Flying Leap-year Into March!
Friday Fling #170 March 2nd 2012
Last Wednesday was a day that only happens once every four years – and we don’t mean the day after the Michigan primary, although it is. Of course we are referring to Leap Year Day.
So this week we’re challenging you to take a flying leap – year into March, in a Sedoka.
No a Sedoka is not a Sixties singer. That was Neil Sedaka. A Sedoka is a poetry format which, according to ShadowPoetry.com, is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives. Katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.
Disturbing Raven
Dark clouds cloak the night;
chilly winds creak gnarled branches,
grasping as bony fingers.
Disturbed Raven squawks
at frightened children – screaming,
then laughing – they throw him treats.
Copyright © 2004 James Dean Chase
This week the Friday Fling leaps into the third month of the Leap Year with a jumping Sedoka!
Be sure to save time to read and comment soaringly on your fellow Pals’ leap year literary creation. Then leap into the first weekend of March!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for February 24th
Congratulations Bettie!
Welcome everyone to the Friday Fling! As you see this week we’re retrospecting a couple of days to consider something which occurs only once every four years.
OK so the Wonderful Wednesday already leaped ahead of us on this topic. But we’re leaping onto it differently by challenging you to write a Sedoka about Leap Year OR Leap Year Day or even the month after Leap Year! Wow how could that be any more different from Leaping over Hump Day? Well I tried.
So take out your personal syllable counter and get your muse on! Just 38 silly syllables and you’ve finished one!
Leap Year-
A pair of Sedokas
By Rebel
02/29/2012
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
A year is twelve months
Three hundred sixty five days
Leap year gives us one day more
Twelve months has a year
An extra day once four years
Happy Leap Day Friday Fling
Great leaping lizards
Twenty twelve is a leap year
Mark it on your calendar
Wait, you don’t have to
It’s already marked on there
And we leaped past it this week
This is by my friend, Sonnet Diva!
And another by Sonnet Diva! Thanks so much Lori for your contributions! Hugs
LEAPING GEE HOE A FEEE
Frogs
And leprechaun
Green as grass
They be
Leap frogs
Just ‘a jumpin
Every where
And you be ‘a wonderin why
Oh yeah its
Leap year
Every thing green
And hoppin in just fine
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————————– © March o1 , 2o12
Good one, Bettie! And congratulations on winning the award! :love: :love:
A real quickie on the spur of the moment
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I’m Ready!
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I’m on a mission
And I am ready to fly
March has come to lead the way.
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Spring will soon arrive
There is much preparation
Oh, wait, it’s snowing again. 🙁 😆 :love:
LEAP FROG
Leap frog leep jump into
The twenty nine days leap year sedoka
Its fling friday leap week jump lightly
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————- © March o1 2o12
Leap Year is such a curious time. Wonderful theme and challenge and pieces posted. Happy Leap Year and Happy Friday. And Congratulations to Bettie!
Leap Year, Leap Year
When will you be?
Every four years
Then you’ll see.
You want more?
We do too!
How many more
can you Leap to?
Leap Year Birthdays
Leap year birthdays come
Precisely every four years
For the big celebration
The in-between ones
Celebrate the twenty eighth
of February mostly
Michelle R. King
2-2-12
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RESTORED AND RENEWED
Leaping into March,
Spring restores my heart and soul,
flowers blooming ev’rywhere.
Sweet breezes blowing
and spring showers refreshing,
rainbows arch across the sky.
(c) barbara kausteklis 3-2-12
(photo and words)
Leap Day was my younger grandson’s half-birthday. He’ll be five at the end of August. Happy Leap Year indeed. All such precious pieces posted.