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Thanks, Siva, for reading & your kind comment. Please understand that the italicized is an epistolary passage from Michael Ondaatje's 1992 The English Patient . This is the source of the prose component this haibun is found on, The 3 tercets - one incorporated near the end of the body of the letter,...

. . . after Katharine Clifton's letter from Michael Ondaatje's 1992 The English Patient : My darling, I'm waiting for you. How long is the day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone, and I'm horribly cold. I really should drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the ligh...

 
Free dom
it is done

dumb
the Son frees dom

from dumb to come
to a kind kin-dom.

in Our Father's family
a fore-given to the ultra feeling Free

 

 

 
 
 
 

  Hi Siva, take a read, look, hear with each of these similar words, which are more specific than "say." ^^ which is more at home in the pome And now, at this read-workshop, I find another option where the quotation marks do the work, eliminating a search for a precise verb. I actually find this mor...

 
please voice in the thread Upcoming July IBPC 2015: at Palaver:

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A wonderful & safe 4th of July weekend to every one



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Siva, a poem about poetry-writing: an interesting ars poetica by merit of the allusion workshop-share below -- 8) -- Michael (MV) "to include to conclude" Two demon-possessed men implore: "Son of God (or beseech or entreat) send us into a herd of swine." They crash the herd and all the animals st...

  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each autho...

 

Billy wrote:BTW this poem sounds great read aloud and goes to new heights. As usual, wonderful wordplay.

Thanks, Billy.

I have posted a current - and hopefully - an evolved incarnation.




Michael (MV)

 

 

 

 

  "Our Father's Day portrait in B & W" A crowd has gathered in black and white though torn in two we can be one                           -- U2 lyric "New Year's Day" (1983) Since the victory the Savior won we are always family with the Son at the center keeping the view the vision never loses focus...

  A crowd has gathered in black and white though torn in two We can be one                               -- U2 lyric "New Year's Day" (1983) With the victory the Savior won we are always family a vision never out of focus with the Son always at the center formal looking like penguins except wee huma...

 
Poems & commentary by Lesley Wheeler:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/05


Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets & boards,

Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Thanks, Billy, and Thanks for providing all the needed info. Good Luck in the finals     -- Michael (MV) I would be glad to represent the Block. This is my original work, unpublished and I am not representing any other workshop. Billy Howell-Sinnard bhowellsinnard@gmail.com the wish batting a ball...

  Thanks, shriiram, for allowing The Kettle Conundrum to represent WB. However, Still Needed: Please provide in this thread the following needed info ASAP: 1/ your name 2/ e-mail statement that 3/ this is your original work 4/ unpublished 5/ and that you are not representing any other workshop this ...

  Hi shriiram, Interesting, with the phonetics of title words "Kettle Conundrum," my inner-ear hears also "kettledrum." and I hear another image/phrase: heavy metal conundrum   :) I read the poem as Peace is Freedom -- ^^ " just like the white winged dove" to reference an image from the lyricist Ste...

  Hi Billy, if you don't aren't already have a poem representing another, would you please consider the wish to represent the WB. Please accept or decline in the thread @ Palaver: Upcoming June IBPC 2015 : http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6079 a couple more suggestions: bat...

  Hi Billy, the free from mechanical punctuation is effective here sharing what I see & hear in the last, but not least: his face angelic in candlelight the mighty lift from his toes upward blown upon the world all the onlookers hoping too right along with him and maybe "birthday" or "birth day" as ...

 

 

                                                                                      over the hill
                                                                    gone
                          the thrill is never

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each autho...

  "Jimi" Individual doesn't conform to rules and regulations imposed Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over with a red guitar on fire nonconformity Viva the difference ___________ penultimate line is from the Jimi Hendrix Experience lyric "Fire" last line is lyric from U2's "Desire"                ...

  Hi Chris, upon a 1st read, recalls to me Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" (1945): From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fight...

  A Light Wedding on the date of Mother's birthright May 18 A real celebration waiting for us all     "Saturday In The Park"   Robert Lamm / Chicago V (1972) Unisons made of Heaven are born from earth since the baby breath our God-part created the heart not earthbound from the cradle already bypassi...

  Selected poems with commentary by Lauren Camp http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty-may-2013-apr-2014 Congrats, to fellow IBPC poets & boards, especially former regular (and visiting) poet on the WB, Bernard Henrie, Second Place, February 2014: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty/lexington-and-83rd-street 8) ...

  Thanks, Siva, for providing that additional item of needed info. Also the comma after "ghee" definitely needs to go inside the quotation mark: ''I will need some ghee,'' he told my aunt, ''start collecting from now on.'' ^^ asap please. Thanks Siva. Again this visit, non-conditional workshop sugge...

 
"The opening stanza of this timely meditation is stunning."   --Lesley Wheeler

link to the page for Billy's poem       http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/politics



Poems that placed for April IBPC 2105)

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Thanks, Billy, for representing and bringing 3rd Place to the Writer's Block. 

Poems & commentary by Lesley Wheeler:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/04


Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets & boards

Michael (MV)