Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

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Michael (MV)
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Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 29 Sep 2020, 03:28

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 1-3 would we like to see represent the Writer's Block in the finals?

After the 3 are selected, then will each author post - in this thread - the poem as the poet would like it forwarded,

and ALL the needed info/statements

Ideally, the only poems that really need to appear here are the final 3, when announced, hopefully by the 1st of the month, if not sooner

^^ the intent is organizational - if poems appear here before the selection of the final 3, then there is a congestion -

Until the final 3 are announced, please maintain poems & workshopping to the Workshop Forum. Thanks.



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any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome!

and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules


In this thread, from the poems posted in the workshop forum during the course of the month, recommend/nominate by title & author.

Nominated poets, please acknowledge the nomination here in this thread.
Please reply by accepting or declining the nomination - in this thread.

Please note & observe: This is not a workshopping thread.

In this thread, poems that are ultimately selected to represent the Block are then posted here
as the author would like for the poem to be forwarded
along with all IBPC required info.

When the 1-3 poems are decided upon, and permission granted by each author of the selected poems,

along with all the info needed by each author:



1/Your name

2/e-mail address

3/statement that the poem is your original

4/and unpublished work

5/and that you don't have a poem committed to represent another board in the current IBPC. One poet one poem one board
for each monthly,

6/and the poem as you would like it forwarded to the finals.

^^ All of the above is the usual needed info as part of the process.


I will then forward the 1-3 to the IBPC finals.


Thanks

Michael (MV)





 
 
 
 
  
 

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 29 Sep 2020, 05:09

I am not available for WB this month, but I am delighted to nominate:
1) Billy’s “She Smiles through the Inevitable”
2) Michael’s “remember September”
3) Ken’s “Devils Courthouse...”

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#3 Post by Kenneth2816 » 01 Oct 2020, 02:29

2nd on Billy's
2nd on Michael's

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Update 10/3 re Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#4 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Oct 2020, 01:57

 
Thanks, Bob; Thanks, Ken, for voicing.

Others have mentioned nominations in the poetry threads on the workshop.

Of course I'm taking note of these as if they were voiced here; however, please also voice here in this corralling thread.


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Michael (MV)

 

 

 
 

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Update 10/4 re Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#5 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Oct 2020, 23:05

Thanks, Bob, for voicing your 3 recommendations,
and for including my "remember September.”

Bob,

Although, I do accept the nom-nod,
would you please consider instead
my other poem this month
"9-15-2001" (a song of experience):

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7825

The comments read to me that it is also an IBPC contender. Thanks, Bob.

Also, thanks for the update re your status this month.

Bob, Best Regards with your endeavors,

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
29 Sep 2020, 05:09
I am not available for WB this month, but I am delighted to nominate:
1) Billy’s “She Smiles through the Inevitable”
2) Michael’s “remember September”
3) Ken’s “Devils Courthouse...”

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Update 10/4 re Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#6 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Oct 2020, 23:44

Thanks, Ken, for voicing your recommendations,
and for 2nding my "remember September.”

Ken,

Although, I do accept the nom-nod,
would you please consider instead
my other poem this month
"9-15-2001" (a song of experience):

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7825

The comments read to me that it is also an IBPC contender.

Thanks, Ken.

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
01 Oct 2020, 02:29
2nd on Billy's
2nd on Michael's

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MV's 3 (Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:)

#7 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Oct 2020, 23:54

Well actually going to be just 2,
since Bob's poetry is not available to rep WB this month; otherwise I would extend a nom-nod to his O.W. poem.

1/ My nom-nod to Ken's "Outer Banks in Autumn"

2/ and 3rding Billy's “She Smiles through the Inevitable”

A productive week to us all
every one

😎

Michael (MV)

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#8 Post by Kenneth2816 » 05 Oct 2020, 14:13

I nom poem of experience

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#9 Post by Kenneth2816 » 05 Oct 2020, 14:20

Devils Court House Blue Ridge Parkway

At Black Balsam, I make six thousand feet;
this is where the Cherokee say God
lives in a cave with his wife, dances

naked around a fire until there's a vision.
Whatever he sees, he paints on the walls
and it becomes the future.

When I was a kid, I saw lightning
form below, storm cloud moving
through the valley like a black fish,

the dispensation of rain and life,
storm and fire, darkness and thunder.
God cutting a rug with his sweetie.

This is my original composition, not published. I'm not representing another forum.
ashworthken@yahoo.com

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#10 Post by Billy » 05 Oct 2020, 20:18

She Smiles Through The Inevitable

Hope upon hope, never faltering,
at least, not to those concerned
looking on, smiling when she smiles.
The unexpected becomes common
these days. Always has been, really.
Still, we struggle to fathom whys.
Health is a faraway land inhabited
by everyone else, it seems--as far
as the next curtained bed gone
silent. The usually talkative nurses
moving in unison as if in a practiced
ritual performed in secret--a secret
we know that doesn't need telling.


Original work, unpublished
Billy Howell-Sinnard
bhowellsinnard@gmail.com

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#11 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 Oct 2020, 21:02

Thanks, Ken.

still another vote is needed for it

Thanks, Ken, for moving it in that direction for now.

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
05 Oct 2020, 14:13
I nom poem of experience

 
 
 
 

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#12 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 Oct 2020, 21:05

 
Thanks, Ken, for representing the WB

Good Luck in the finals

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
05 Oct 2020, 14:20
Devils Court House Blue Ridge Parkway

At Black Balsam, I make six thousand feet;
this is where the Cherokee say God
lives in a cave with his wife, dances

naked around a fire until there's a vision.
Whatever he sees, he paints on the walls
and it becomes the future.

When I was a kid, I saw lightning
form below, storm cloud moving
through the valley like a black fish,

the dispensation of rain and life,
storm and fire, darkness and thunder.
God cutting a rug with his sweetie.

This is my original composition, not published. I'm not representing another forum.
ashworthken@yahoo.com
 
 
 

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#13 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 Oct 2020, 21:36

 
Thanks, Billy, for representing the WB

Good Luck in the finals

Michael (MV)
 
Billy wrote:
05 Oct 2020, 20:18
She Smiles Through The Inevitable

Hope upon hope, never faltering,
at least, not to those concerned
looking on, smiling when she smiles.
The unexpected becomes common
these days. Always has been, really.
Still, we struggle to fathom whys.
Health is a faraway land inhabited
by everyone else, it seems--as far
as the next curtained bed gone
silent. The usually talkative nurses
moving in unison as if in a practiced
ritual performed in secret--a secret
we know that doesn't need telling.


Original work, unpublished
Billy Howell-Sinnard
bhowellsinnard@gmail.com
 
 
 
 

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#14 Post by Billy » 05 Oct 2020, 23:25

I nom songs of experience.

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Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2020:

#15 Post by Michael (MV) » 06 Oct 2020, 18:06

Thanks, Billy,

that a 2nd with Ken's the initial

😎

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Billy wrote:
05 Oct 2020, 23:25
I nom songs of experience.

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