Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

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Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

#1 Post by SivaRamanathan » 04 May 2020, 21:18

Michael

I am not representing any other group.

Siva Ramanathan

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Re: Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

#2 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 May 2020, 19:22

Hi Siva,

If you are you referring to your prose poem

Will we Ever Make our Forest Trips?

representing the WB,

then YES.

And, Siva, ASAP, post that poem and all the needed info here in this thread.

Thanks Siva,

Michael (MV)

SivaRamanathan wrote:
04 May 2020, 21:18
Michael

I am not representing any other group.

Siva Ramanathan

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Re: Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

#3 Post by SivaRamanathan » 05 May 2020, 23:29

'Will We Ever Make Our Forest Trips?' is my original,unpublished prose-poem,and I am not representing any other forum.My email id is sivakamivelliangriri@gmail.com.




Will We Ever Make Our Forest Trips?

These past days my dreams have dropped me from the edge of Congress Maidaan. Know well that the Congress Maidaan is a plateau.
That lone tusker we saw once turns in a semicircle at the far end. My husband bends down tying his shoe laces. My daughter yells,
'’It is madness to get down from the Bolero. These are wild elephants. I keep my cool. The elephant is walking towards us swaying
its trunk as elephants do. I turn in my sleep thinking when it come near I will ask it to keep its distance.

Another recurring dream is the wilderness again, on the untrodden path from the British built Guest House.
We do not go forward, instead reverse our jeep. I ask my daughter, did you really, really get the eerie feel of strong spirits?
Yes,’ she says, ‘’we have to turn back.’’ My son and the hubby keep mum. I tell her I saw this online magazine open its mouth
asking for a wilderness poem. Its mouth was already full with a lot of other people’s drafts.

‘’Never mind,’ ’she says, there are wilderness videos; you can take a Google trip.

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Update 5/7 re Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

#4 Post by Michael (MV) » 07 May 2020, 18:38

Thanks, Siva, for representing,

and making it possible for WB to participate in the current May IBPC 2020.

Siva, good luck in the finals

8)

Michael (MV)

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Re: Are we not placing three poems for the IBPC?

#5 Post by SivaRamanathan » 09 May 2020, 09:33

Thank you Michael and Bob,who made it possible with his initial editing.

Siva

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