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Hi Eira, I can relate to the poem's premise/theme and I like the soundtrack included by allusion. In workshop accord re the finale sans "facebook." Serendipitious - I wrote these lines this Valentine's week: Lovers forever face(book) to face(book). Fortunately, Love is not a book. Books are bound. L...

Hi Bob,

I'm hearing & seeing the finale as:

my nerves trembling,
my world finally
discovered




Michael (MV)

 
As I read it:

1/ Eira's The Nestling

2/ Siva's Black as the coal workers, soot collects in her hair.

3/ And although, of course, I like his Emily Dickinson poem,

Bob's Sleeping on a Roof

 
a productive week to every one

Michael (MV)

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/we will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop environment Which...

Thanks Siva; Good luck in the finals

Thanks Eira; Good luck in the finals

A wonderful & productive week, every one



Michael (MV)

I 2nd Eira's "Escape from Routine"

asap Please


Thanks,

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Bob, and good luck in the finals.

Siva's 'Marakuli is the 2nd of the allowed 3 entries.


How about voicing for the 3rd

ASAP


Thanks,

Michael (MV)

Michael (MV) hoping for every one
a wonderful 2020 & beyond

and on my first log-in of the new year
giving a nom-nod for Bob's poem

The Moon Walk




Michael (MV)

Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/we will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop environment Which...

Thanks, Bob, for sharing another IBPC honor with the Writer's Block: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/beethoven-dying Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets whose poems placed, especially Kenneth, a veteran on the WB. December 2019 IBPC poems selected by Laurie Byro with commentary: http://ibpc.webdelsol....

 
I 2nd Bob's nom-nod for Judy's soundtrack poem


And how about one from Bob, if available - and if so, then, Bob, which one would you prefer


and fittingly Eira's remembrance of Christmases past poem





Michael (MV)


 
 
 
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Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/we will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop environment Which...

  The Writer's Block makes a double at 2nd place.   Congrats, Bob: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/red-spider-lilies Congrats, Siva: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/the-big-house-at-mambalam Thanks, Siva, Thanks, Bob, for sharing another IBPC honor with the history of The Writer's Block; unique this...

Hi kenneth,

"We have the same mad mother."

 Annunciation:
We all are born
of the same mad mother

^^ the micro-poem



Michael (MV)

Hi meenas, I have known too many people like the one in your poem - so your subject is not a rarity, at least to this reader. Maybe it is a breath of fresh air that an abusive person like that is out of one's life. We can't do for others what only God can do for them. We can continue to hope & pray ...

  Congrats, Kenneth, on authoring the 2nd place poem, http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/dantes-outer-circles and Thanks, Kenneth, for sharing another IBPC honor with the history of The Writer's Block: Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets whose poems placed. October 2019 IBPC poems selected by Laurie Byro...

Hi kennerh,

prelude as foreplay while crossing

enjoyed the youthful ride along



Michael (MV)

Thanks, Siva,

Minimalism is especially like that - akin to lyricism


I have edited - hopefully evolved - since you posted your response,

which I thank you for, Siva



Michael (MV)

"old man above the autumn" 1/ John Keats born Halloween 1795 Old: only live once; and that life is brief, art is long Present: born once to live forever The museum a mausoleum: all the fine art mummified. I hear John Keats with the ear in my HeArt my brother's voice freed from the cold of the urn Ne...

Thanks, Kenneth, for assisting with the thread. As I'm reading it, I will forward the poems here in this thread by Judy, Bob, and Siva on the 4th. If any of you 3 have any changes to make to your poem; please edit your poem here in this thread ASAP - today - the 3rd - Thanks, and Good Luck in the fi...

Hi Bob Title is esp integral here Workshop-share - He's grey, doesn't get up, and he's looking beyond  At the finale I'm hearing: I get up and move on. He's a part, now,  of something bigger than us both Congrats on the nom-nod. Does that mean that you will not have a poem available to represent The...

  Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/we will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop environment Whi...

  Congrats, Bob, and Thank you for honoring the Writer's Block with this recognition in the annual best of the best, selected by Joyce Kelley  http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/judges/joyce-kelley and Kim Leifer http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/judges/kim-leifer 1ST PLACE Caught In The Light Bucket by Brenda Levy ...

Hi Ken,

I understand Bob's workshop observation

I find with the current two, formally, they articulate like a medieval  diptych

I was arriving at the space in time to enter my observation into the thread - found that Bob had entered his

Yes, a possible triptych



Michael (MV)

Hi Bob,

You Can't Rid a Room of an Elephant
even when it is crystal clear



Michael (MV)