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Michael(MV) with a nom-nod
for Bob's Separation

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...

remember (re member) In this poem, to "remember" is to "imagine, " and then "re member:re join." When I'm sad I run my finger over it and remember, again, feeling whole ^^ recasted as above, "once more" ' would now not be needed Bob, have you maybe considered a one-word title: "Separation " - it rel...

Bob, I read this when you first posted. Couldn't respond then; short on time now. Must say this: Strong at each level and in toto. A poem powerful w/out the explosives. At this time, I hope this will represent the WB for the April IBPC. And I'm returning w/ a fine-tune workshopping - consider that t...

  1/ Thanks Siva for the info that you are representing for another IBPC board, and therefore, will not be representing for the WB in the February IBPC 2020. Siva, Good Luck in the finals. 2/ Bob, I just can't resist giving Laika a second nom-nod. Also, takes me to the 3rd stanza ( 111 ° http://www....

  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...

I like/enjoy this dogumentary from the P of V of the subject, Laika. Maybe, "First Dog in Space" isn't needed in the title? Then, later: Floating in a flight harness, the first canine cosmonaut, I pressed against a port, This just got more interesting as it when up & up reaching its finale, by virtu...

 
 
Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets whose poems placed, especially Kenneth, a veteran on the WB (2nd place with a "Blast")


January 2020 IBPC poems selected by R. T. Castelberry with commentary: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2020/01


Cheers!

Michael (MV)

 
 

 
 
 

Hi Bob, I like the revision - opening w/ the simile, w/out the 1st lines of the 1st draft is more dynamic & engaging as an opening should be. Then, workshop-wise I'm hearing: runners circling the bases, like wolves. runners, like wolves, circling the bases. ^^ or maybe that over-extends the figurati...

Eira,

I like the finale of version 2

So natural to the poem, esp,

"Perhaps it’s best to Let it Be"

Yeats said the right close to a poem is like a lid to its box

And Goldilocks said "that's just right"



Michael (MV)

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 ...