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Congrats to Billy, HM: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty/hospice-nurse Thanks, Biily, for bringing this decade-recognition to the WB. Your 2014 poem is hauntingly timely, considering this pandemic year. And although that his 2018 poem represented & placed for another IBPC, Congrats, too, to our frequen...

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...

 
not even
a mask

can cease
the spread

of a contagious
HeArt-felt smile

going viral
over the flat line

like where the sun is always
with you over the horizon

 
 
 
 
 

Hi Ken,

Workshop suggest for the finale:

indoctrinated the locals
with dogma and rice.




Michael (MV)

Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets whose poems placed.


October 2020 IBPC poems selected
by Jim McGarrah with commentary:
http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2020/10


Cheers!

Michael (MV

Hi Bob,

without Beethoven in the title - title as:

A Student Auditions for Mozart

then mention the student's name here:

a sixteen year old boy
with a pock marked face,
bushy eyebrows, and the name
Beethoven.




Michael (MV(

  Hi Bob, My availability is sporadic & abbreviated - I do read - can't workshop as I usually like Your poem here is on my radar for a possible nom in the Dec IBPC esp like the piazza-fountain rapport - the finale is pregnant with poignancy - immediately this lyric & voice resounded like ultrasound ...

Thanks, Kenneth, Forwarded to the IBPC finals Good luck, Michael (MV) Beggar's Lice First, the lush green tendrils make a basil rosette. Beneath the wither of summer she brittles, dispersing her little ones, the stickseed, onto the down of a doe's coat or between the ribs of passing corduroy, to be ...

I needed to, and have forwarded meenas' and mine poems.

If Ken will complete the acceptance procedure, this day, the 9th, I will forward a 3rd.

Of course, it will be up to IBPC entries if it is still acceptable time-wise.



Michael (MV)

Thanks, Ken, for accepting. To complete the acceptance procedure, Please provide by this day, the 9th, the usual, needed info before forwarding to IBPC. Then, I will forward, and it will, of course, be up to IBPC entries if it is still acceptable time-wise. Thanks, Ken, Michael (MV] I accept for Beg...

Thanks, meenas, for providing the needed info. Good luck in the finals 😎 Michael (MV) Name Meena email meenas17@gmail.com It is my original unpublished poem, I am not representing any other board. Navaratri Revision The dolls come down from the attic the young ones jump all over, the adults descend ...

Congrats to The Waters on the grand slam.

A special WB Congrats to Ken for his 3rd place IBPC POTY.

William Doreski's selected poems with commentary:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty-may-2019-apr-2020


Cheers!



Michael (MV)

My apologies if I wasn't clear(it has been another hectic week) - but the 3 to represent are: Ken's Beggar's Lice Any current by Billy and meenas's Navaratri On Thursday November 5th, I did PM Billy, meenas, and Ken. Ken and Billy haven't replied; meenas has accepted, but has yet to post the needed ...

Thanks, meenas,

for accepting

Now Please ASAP provide here in this thread
All the needed info as delineated in the initial entry of this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7861#p37493

Thanks, meenas,

Michael (MV)

meenas17 wrote: ↑

06 Nov 2020, 09:36

Thanks for the nomination.
I accept.

I meant to nominate Ken's "Beggar's Lice" -

and now here I have

Michael (MV)

1/ including Bob's nom-nod of "Antlers," I 2nd any current poem by Billy - poet's choice

2/ I 2nd Bob's nom-nod of Meenas’ poem “Navaratri”

Need to hear here in this thread accept or decline

asap Please

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Bob,

1/ for the update; good luck with your plans

2/ for voicing

and 3/ the nom-nod on my poem,

which I accept,



Michael (MV)

Hi Billy,

I read and heard the classic "the low spark of the high-heeled boys" (Steve Winwood with Traffic)

from the early 70s, when I was a new teen and everything was dazz'ling - I was jazzed with music,



Michael (MV)

orange
scare
crow


orange
snow
man


from a blue-blood
sunny-moon
a red-orange glow

Hi Bob, Her southern voice is lost now, but in home movies she flickers like a hummingbird amid the honeysuckle flowers. Forever in gardener gloves and floppy hats, from Dad's blond Chevy to Mama's straw colored dress, everything glows with sunlight in late afternoon. ^^ Notice: 1/a) the commas, and...

Yes, better,

for the change in clouds



Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

27 Oct 2020, 05:32

It’s better

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...

  Hi Billy, I esp like: Somewhere at the center a star shining too faraway to know it exists for sure. Also, I like the image Darkness thick as ignorance The candle snuffed reminds me of the candle imagery in Shakespeare's Othello & Macbeth - and I like that subtle kinship orbiting the classics work...

Hi, Bob,

Ode was rather formal & stiff

I find the revised refreshing.

likewise with

1/ to my old age

2/ my old age




Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

24 Oct 2020, 04:42

Changed the title....not sure I like it...but open to suggestions. Best

 
Hi Ken,

evolution of creativity

genesis -> metamorphosis -> maternity


from the forest floor
to be reborn
as mother



from maternity to eternity



Michael (MV)