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Michael (MV)

 
Thanks Eira

for completing our allowed quota of 3 entries - Good Luck in the finals


Yes, our 3 have been forwarded


A good week to all



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Eira

Kenneth has recommended your poem:

http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/ ... 644#p36093

asap

Thanks Eira



Michael

  Note from IBPC: Earlier this summer we reached out to some judges to see if they could help us get back on track with our Poem of the Year contests. (We hadn't had one since 2016.) The 2017 results are now up on the site (http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty-may-2016-apr-2017) and posted below. Unfortun...

 
Thanks, Bob; Thanks Kenneth,

Good Luck to you both in the finals.

We can contend 3. Will there be a 3rd to represent the Writer's Block?


I see maybe one by Frank or Eira.


Other voices ,please

Thanks




Michael (MV)

 

 

 

   
 

nominated by MV:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7644#p36075



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Actually, reading back to move forward, I recall

& nominate Kenneth's Dante's Outer Circles

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7622




Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 
 

    I 2nd "My Funeral" by Bob Bradshaw; and as of now, Bob's poem will be one of the three going to the finals to represent the WB in this October IBPC 2019. We still need 2 more. I would have 2nd Billy's "Trees of Winter" I will try to read the board, probably a poem by Kenneth. Kenneth, do you hav...

  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...

Hi Bob see how I keep returning from the grave and to add some pun - . . . Won't it be obvious there's been a grave mistake,  that I shouldn't be there? That clearly they have the wrong man? Or as MV says: . . . Won't it be obvious there's been a grave mistake,  even I am not in attendance at a fune...

  the poltergeist is back   :) My life savings will leave  (wow, the nuance I find in your opening line) just enough cash for fireworks & champagne to celebrate my arrival Home. Funerals pretend the end but there is no ending catch the wind but you'll never catch the breath of me the same boy and I'...

Hi Bob,

I like & relate to

maybe more later; for now
I must lay me down
to rest
for my wake
in the sunrise



Michael (MV)

  Congrats, Bob, on writing the 2nd place poem. Thanks for bringing another IBPC honor to the history of The Writer's Block with a Bob Bradshaw poem: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/last-game-of-the-season Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets whose poems placed. August 2019 IBPC poems selected by Lois ...

Hi Eira,

Mom was carrying me
when Dad died. 
She told me he was a hero
very courageous to save the stranger -
and though we never met,
he loves me & I love him too

^^ "and though we never met"
^^ I believe this - from the start of our God-created part - the HeArt



Michael (MV)

Thx, Bob,

Then perhaps "Percy Shelley" isn't the title needed for this poem.

Workshop-consider Claire Clairmont for the title of this persona-poem.




Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

15 Sep 2019, 04:22

Yep

Hi Bob,

Is the speaker Claire Clairmont


Thx

Michael (MV)

Strong, Heathcliff-strong, esp the finale Admirable the use of epic literary allusion - station at the top to bookend with the finale. Although a ring is in the form of s circle, consider the word that is used in the dantean schema: "Dante's Outer Circles" Kenneth, I would hope that Dante scholars w...

letting go


"quiiver" belongs in this poem; and "shake" would'nt occur 2x


admiral, Bob, how you play the violin as a literary instrument



Michael (MV)

Hi Bob Perhaps this example will clarify - http://the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5704#p35891 autobiographical for life here; autothanatographical for communicating about life after here a thanatographic auto-bio "on earth as it is in Heaven" - the Haven of the Humane 😎 Michael (MV) ...

On this Sunday - Grandparent's Day -

I'm raising this (auto)thanatographical poem in honor of my parents - Vincent & Virginia, great & grand parents.

And, too, in regard to the term "autothanatographical"

^^ viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7611#p35865




Michael (MV)

    Hi Bob, here is an ekphrastic response to your poem: "kindred spirits make guest appearances" Bob, you are a Wordsworthian and I admire your creativity in the finished works yet, I, coleridgesque, lacking focus because I am carried away enchanted by the creative process Spirit move me with the c...

  September 5, 1957 On the Road published - and a generation later influenced a sister songwriter & singer - 1/ https://youtu.be/5nSFFL3dBA4 ^^ skip to #4; however, if you would like more Natalie, I provide you with 2 & 3 now, or maybe later after Jack 2/ The first half of this video - https://youtu...

  Hi Eira, "Secret Love" is cliché, too - but that doesn't absolutely rule it out as a title - the text needs to bring newness to it. Consider epigraph in lieu of title: from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a...

Monday afternoon September 3rd, 2019 

Thanks, Bob; Thanks Ken:

Good Luck in the finals.

Waiting for Eira

Michael (MV)

 

 
 
 

I nominate Bob's "Algernon Charles Swinburne," and reference, too, kenneth's
nom-nod in the poem's thread:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7584#p35786


I 2nd kenneth's "Houses"


Labor day is about done;
time to finalize



Michael (MV)