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by Michael (MV)
07 Feb 2023, 05:33
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Update 2/6 re Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

Frank, Billy, and I will be representing the Writer's Block in the February IBPC 2023,

and the poems have been forwarded to the IBPC finals.

Good Luck to the Writer's Block

Michael (MV)


 

 

 
 
by Michael (MV)
07 Feb 2023, 05:22
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Re: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

Thanks, Billy, and Good Luck in the finals Michael (MV) Thanks, I can represent the Block. This is unpublished, original work, and I’m not representing another board Bhowellsinnard@gmail.com Shouldn't Every Moment Be A Preparation Those tears, yesterday, that were a fountain I thought had no end. Te...
by Michael (MV)
06 Feb 2023, 03:53
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Update 2/5 re Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

Well, here it is going on the 6th of the month,

and just 1 of 3.

I sent a PM to Billy earlier today.

Thank leaun for accepting.


Should my Burns' poem of senryu stanzas be one of the 3?


Hopefully by Monday we will know if the WB will have 2 or 3 going to this month's finals.


Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
05 Feb 2023, 10:56
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Re: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

Thanks, Bob, for the update,

and for voicing a couple of noms,

which I have 2nded,

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
04 Feb 2023, 20:23
I’m not available but I nom Ieuan’s “Frank Talks” and Billy’s “Every Moment is a Preparation”.
by Michael (MV)
05 Feb 2023, 10:53
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Udate 2/5 re Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

I 2nd Ieuan’s “Frank Talks”

And if Billy is available,
I 2nd Billy’s “Every Moment is a Preparation”


Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
04 Feb 2023, 14:28
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Re: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

My nom-nod for Bob's

Filling in the Bomb Shelter(the Cuban Missile Crisis Over)

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
04 Feb 2023, 14:26
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Filling in the Bomb Shelter(the Cuban Missile Crisis Over)
Replies: 6
Views: 2916

Re: Filling in the Bomb Shelter(the Cuban Missile Crisis Over)

Hi Bob,

I'm nominating this poem of yours.

Please consider reducing the title to:

after the Cuban Missile Crisis


in the spirit of workshopping,

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
04 Feb 2023, 14:14
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Update February 4th re the Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

Please participate in the process,

and voice in this designated thread.

Am I to assume no one else but Frank and myself are available to represent the Writer's Block?

Perhaps it is awkward to be representing elsewhere this month, and also make recommends here.

I can relate to that,

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
01 Feb 2023, 13:50
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Re: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

It's February 1st, and hopefully we will have our 3 by Friday. As a reminder, if you are not available to represent the Writer's Block this current monthly, then Please let us know. This will be helpful in expediting by narrowing the selection process. Thank you, and Welcome to February 2023, Michae...
by Michael (MV)
01 Feb 2023, 13:38
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: IBPC
Replies: 4
Views: 3603

Re: IBPC

It is February. Poems posted August 2022 have not yet been announced? Hi Kenneth, When I receive the latest results from the IBPC, I post the selected poems in Palaver ASAP. The latest results I have received and announced here are Poems that Placed in the August IBPC 2022: http://www.the-writers-b...
by Michael (MV)
29 Jan 2023, 17:34
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Coming of Age
Replies: 5
Views: 2383

Re: Senryu - Of Age

black locks bob
whire pearls flash -
time for a suitable boy

.^^ the senryu speaks the "Of Age"; not needed in the title. Just "senryu."


Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
29 Jan 2023, 17:32
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Coming of Age
Replies: 5
Views: 2383

Re: Senryu - Of Age

Black locks bob
Oyster pearls flash -
time for a suitable boy

.^^ the senryu speaks of the "Of Age"
by Michael (MV)
29 Jan 2023, 17:23
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming February IBPC 2023:
Replies: 14
Views: 6931

Upcoming February IBPC 2023:

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 dynamic Which 1-3...
by Michael (MV)
29 Jan 2023, 17:18
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Filling in the Bomb Shelter(the Cuban Missile Crisis Over)
Replies: 6
Views: 2916

Re: Filling in the Bomb Shelter(the Cuban Missile Crisis Over)

Personal, familial memory and history for an engaging poem with a finale without closure.

Bravo,

😎

Michael
by Michael (MV)
29 Jan 2023, 17:07
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Frank Talks
Replies: 4
Views: 2336

Re: Frank Talks

Hi Frank

Yes, I enjoyed this journal poem


Poignant finale

😎

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
27 Jan 2023, 13:25
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: "after haggis senryu"
Replies: 1
Views: 1448

"after haggis senryu"

Virtually under the same
Scottish son-song -
To Rabbie Burns 



Relishing the awfully
good offal
guts to guts 



"Auld Lang Syne"
whiskies around the world -
Burns Nicht streaming bright 
by Michael (MV)
16 Jan 2023, 12:37
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Dif-tor heh Smusma - V2 (Reposted 2024 from an earlier version))
Replies: 3
Views: 2395

Re: Dif-tor heh Smusma

Hi Frank, This reads like the 2nd draft of your other poem posted, Faith. Yet, neither is anywhere near your writing of poetry. Moreover, neither are the reading & writing of poetry: I haven't read a poem, because a poem has not yet been written. Remember: Show. Don't tell. Where is the show? The sh...
by Michael (MV)
16 Jan 2023, 12:10
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: After the Rain
Replies: 2
Views: 1712

Re: After the Rain

I was especially taken by those same lines,

like a boy storming through the streets,

😎

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
04 Jan 2023, 09:06
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:
Replies: 12
Views: 6849

Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:

Thanks, Bob, for the update.

Michael (MV)


BobBradshaw wrote:
04 Jan 2023, 03:59
Michael, I’m not available. Thanks though
by Michael (MV)
03 Jan 2023, 18:54
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Marry Me, Emily Dickinson
Replies: 3
Views: 2351

Re: Marry Me, Emily Dickinson

Hi Bob

Yesterday, I gave this poem of yours a nom-nod:

https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum ... 255#p39725

^^ Please reply - accept or decline - in that designated IBPC thread, asap.

Thanks, Bob


Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
02 Jan 2023, 18:17
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:
Replies: 12
Views: 6849

Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:

Kenneth,

Are you available to represent the Writer's Block

with your poem My Father's Hands ?


Thank, Kenneth,

and HNY 2023 🍻

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
02 Jan 2023, 18:08
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:
Replies: 12
Views: 6849

Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:

Thanks, Billy, for accepting to represent, and for providing all the needed information. Good Luck in the finals, and HNY 🍻 Michael (MV) I’m not representing another board. This is my original, unpublished work. Billy Howell-Sinnard bhowellsinnard@gmail.com A Swelling of the Ground* I walked to a cl...
by Michael (MV)
01 Jan 2023, 19:35
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:
Replies: 12
Views: 6849

Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2023:

Here is my proposal for Marry me, Emily Dickinson (Although, Bob, our American Emily, like the other 19thC Emily of England, and not unlike the present day Stevie Nicks - the Emily Brontë of rock-popera - was not created to be a wife and mother. At least as I believe it : creatively singular & singl...
by Michael (MV)
01 Jan 2023, 19:19
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Marry Me, Emily Dickinson
Replies: 3
Views: 2351

Re: Marry Me, Emily Dickinson

Hi Bob, A workshop-recast of the last: Do not shake your auburn mane, the idea incomprehensible. Emily, don’t turn away - Without your love I am but a foolish old goat tangled in his own tethers. HNY 🍻 Michael (MV) Marry Me, Emily Dickinson    My heart is big like my house, waiting for you  --servan...
by Michael (MV)
31 Dec 2022, 22:25
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Living in East Germany, 1963
Replies: 3
Views: 2294

Re: Living in East Germany, 1963

Hi Bob, Edvard Munch appears before me as I read this high anxiety panic attack -Yes, I realize he was earlier, but then, Poe was even earlier, and his vibe(TTH) is here, too. A build up without a release; or with pending fatal consequence - Poe again (P&P) Workshop-studies: 1/ recasted as: The skyl...