One of our favorite Holiday pastimes is watching the classic Christmas movies. So we thought, how about writing about them, why they are classics, what keeps us coming back to watch year after year, what they add to the Holiday spirit, etc.
Here's Scotorum's list of Top Ten Must See Movies at Christmastime:
10. Home Alone 1&2
9. The Santa Clause
8. Christmas in Connecticut
7. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
6. Miracle on 34th Street
5. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (either the movie or the cartoon)
4. Holiday Inn
3. White Christmas
2. A Christmas Carol (almost any of the many versions)
And my number one all-time Christmas movie,
1. It's a Wonderful Life
Maybe yours includes different titles. Whatever your favorite is, we want to read about it!
No special format this week, so that you are as free as possible to range the topic. And hey it's Christmas Eve!
This week the Friday Fling chats poetically about our favorite Christmas movies!
Be sure to save some viewing time for the other Pals' celluloid celebrations. Then go make some nice Christmas moments this weekend! - Bob/Scotorum and Michelle K.
As ever, should the challenge as posted not be at least a three star challenge for you, you may post anything poetical you've written lately that suits our family reading audience.
It's that time of the month again for the Saturday Rodeo Roundup here at the CPC! This month we bring you a Poetic Challenge like no other! We challenge you to a Poetry Snowball Fight! We have two teams ready to go, you choose your side and get ready to hurl poetry snowballs to and fro! All for fun and without the real cold, there are rules to follow with points and bonus points! So get you gloves and boots on and join the in the poetry game called "Splat!"
Normally when we put together our Fling challenges, we first choose a topic - usually as timely a one as possible - , and then pick a format that we think has the potential to express it best. This time, my cohostess Michelle K. suggested we do another challenge involving the Utny, a format first seen on the Fling last April. The Utny is simply a reverse Eintou, in other numbers a format poem of seven lines in 8-6-4-2-4-6-8 syllables successively.
As to topic, I thought that since the Utny, like the Eintou, comes essentially in two mirror halves divided by a single line, that it would be a good format to express differences, especially opposites. So this week we thought the theme would be "Opposites attract." When is that true, and when is it not true, of people, animals, things or even ideas. When do opposites oppose each other and when to they complement?
Here's an example of the Utny, this one done on the topic of this week's Wonderful Wednesday CPC challenge, where the theme was "The Impossible Dream."
Dreamchaser
If you have a personal dream, although you may think it's impossible, chase it. You won't get it if you don't go for it, and you'll regret you didn't try.
Copyright December 14th 2010 RGD
This week the Friday Fling writes Utnys about opposites!
Be sure to save time to read and comment noncontrarily on your fellow Pals' dichotomies. Then go find an opposite that attracts this weekend!
As always, should the challenge offered not be compatible with your desires, you may post anything which you have written lately which is suitable for our family blog.
Welcome to Thematic Attic where this week we ask the question "Are you dreaming of a white Christmas?" Tell us with your poetry the Christmas of your dreams or the one of your reality. What hopes and holiday cheer can you find and /or inspire. Is the real meaning of the holiday still out there? We hope you come and partake in this introspective poetic challenge and share your time and poetry with us!
As always we hope you take the time to thoroughly read and comment on your fellow poets poems. We are thrilled to have this time to pend with you and we look forward to all that you bring to share.
Please send us you "Like" if you will and let us know you send your support.
Greetings Poets, Artisans and Dreamers to another installment of Wonderful Wednesday!
Today we shall revisit the inspiring tale of Don Quixote and his trusty sidekick Sanchez as we take our poetry on a quest to discover, to believe and live the impossible dream!
Imagine that world... where love meant and effected everything. With one little act of Empathy we could change a life forever... Let us dream "The Impossible Dream" tonight and share a love so bright... that it blots out the light of the MOON!!!
Blessings everyone. Have fun with this challenge. HTML has come back, so feel free to share you pic n poems with us and show all your beautiful creativity.
