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August 2nd, and We Need more participation In That IBPC Thread over at Palaver ASAP.

Here is the link that will take you There to That Thread:

https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum ... 2fcbfbbf40


Thanks

Michael (MV)

"The poem provides proof of the healing power of the creative imagination." --M.B. McLatchey http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/phone-of-the-wind Congrats, Bob, for the recognition earned by power of your poem; and Thanks for placing another poem from the Writer's Block into IBPC archives. Congrats to ...

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, Potent and appeals to my sensibility - I like the way the poem *piles(composes itself) together* - and manifests in wisdom from the breath of an elder source. I don't believe the poem has found its title, yet hoping it will - and might even represent the Writer's Block in the upcoming IBPC...

Hi Billy,

This reads familiar to me - is my memory serving me accurately?

Michael (MV)

  We come to the Father by way of the Son ; but there is no son without the mother. July 15, 2022 - The 9th anniversary of our Mother receiving her Miracle Lift like a child borne out of the sleeper for deliverance from here and the 1st for her first born big brother receiving his and being delivere...

  Hi Eira, Long narrative in short form: Fortunately, my itinerary was modified Tuesday afternoon, starting with a phone call from the doctor, as I was leaving the drive from home. Thus, it became Wednesday afternoon before I launched the 3 to the finals. Good Luck to the Writer's Block 8) Michael (...

That was last Thursday & Friday; the last day of June, the first day of July. . A post-op follow-up is this Friday, the 8th. . Thanks for your concern & kind regard. Tomorrow AM, I will forward the 3 from the big screen monitor at the Senior Center. We are celebrating 🇺🇸 Independence Day in the stat...

 
Thursday & Friday, surgical procedure on the other eye.

I go to nominate Kenneth's pipe poem, and I read his note about declining it.


Our 3:

No Curtain Call

The Old Armchair

LiPo Adrift



A safe & wonderful 4th to us All



Michael (MV)
 

 
 
 
 

 
Congrats to fellow IBPC boards recognized.


April 2022 IBPC poems selected by M.B. McLatchey with commentary: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2022/04


Cheers!

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...

My apology, Kenneth.

I see now this poem was initially posted in June on the 3rd.

Sincerely,

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote: ↑

07 Jun 2022, 04:53

It's early

Congrats, Bob!

Michael (MV)

I read now, and see this "garden poem" would also work for the IBPC.

Ken, which one will you pick?

Thanks,

Michael (MV)

SNL



MV

Actually, this is the one I specifically would recommend.

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Bob (and Thanks, too, for 2nding Ieuan’s “Sea Fever”); and Thanks Ieuan ap Hywel

Good Luck to you both in the finals,

and Good Luck to the Writer's Block


If still no response from Kenneth by this evening, I will move ahead and forward your 2 poems, at least.


Michael (MV)

"Pissed off" has a delightful side.

Workshop-share for the opening:

According to an article in Nation magazine:
urine makes good fertilizer.




Michael (MV)

I just found that Frank nominated earlier in the Forum thread for Bob's poem Elvis Sightings:

https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum ... 149#p39192

I 2nd Bob's Elvis Sightings

Michael (MV)

I nominate Sea Fever by Frank

Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2022, 11:48

My Sea Fever is available if good enough. Posted the 1st of May.

Hi Ken, I believe e. e. cummings would love this poem, especially the finale. Below, I have gone through with a punctuation check applied; also, a slight edit in stanza 3. -- Michael (MV) As kids, I scratched your name in the skin of a Beech tree. It was all I knew of love. Beneath the ground they s...

We need to move forward to forward up to 3. 1/ I 2nd Ken's poem of preference. Please select and post here with all the needed info. 2/ Bob, how about Elvis Sightings; it has 2 nom-nods now. https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8156&p=39257#p39257 or another one of yours, Bob ...

Hi Bob, I will add to my narrative, to include re the "stint" - that's what I remember the term for the device to be, to necessarily keep the urinary tract (urethra?) open, so debris from the deconstruction can pass through, and not get caught in the lining, resulting in pain. Hope to include later ...

The Kidney Stone Club (for poets with kidney stones) My history with kidney stones began when I was 40. And although my history is documented with less painstricken episodes than others - because mine usually pass on through, which is ideal solution. When that doesn't naturally occur, then the urolo...

Hi to All, In May I underwent 2 eye surgeries. It was difficult to workshop much. But I do check in and read. June will likely be the same for the other eye. Please voice your nominations in this thread. If nominated, but not available, let us know in this IBPC thread, asap please. The only poems th...