Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

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Michael (MV)
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Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 01 Dec 2020, 17:14

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4/and unpublished work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)

BobBradshaw
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 03 Dec 2020, 00:39

I nominate Meenas' "Long Hair Named Desire", Ken's "Body in the River" and Michael's "All Lives Matter".

Kenneth2816
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#3 Post by Kenneth2816 » 05 Dec 2020, 04:07

I accept. Thanks Bob, and I second your noms.

meenas17
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#4 Post by meenas17 » 07 Dec 2020, 19:57

Thanks, Bob for nominating my poem,
You are constantly pushing me to do better.
If Michael feels it is worthy, I will accept.
meenas17

Michael (MV)
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Update 12/7 re Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#5 Post by Michael (MV) » 08 Dec 2020, 02:21

Bob, I hope you are available to represent with

Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna Mozart

or another one of your current - poet's choice

Please reply in this thread ASAP

Bob, Thanks for the usual prompt voicing of your recommendations.

Thanks for including my poem in your current list.

Now, I must be prompt, make a last call, and forward 3, hopefully by tomorrow.

Last call for accept/decline; available/not available; or any other recommendations.


Can we get a consensus on 3 ASAP

😎

Michael (MV)

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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#6 Post by Michael (MV) » 08 Dec 2020, 03:39

I 2nd Bob's nomination of Ken's "Body in the River" 

Michael (MV)
BobBradshaw wrote:
03 Dec 2020, 00:39
I nominate Meenas' "Long Hair Named Desire", Ken's "Body in the River" and Michael's "All Lives Matter".

Michael (MV)
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#7 Post by Michael (MV) » 08 Dec 2020, 03:44

Thanks, ken, for accepting.

Please in this thread the required usuals.

Thanks,

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
05 Dec 2020, 04:07
I accept. Thanks Bob, and I second your noms.

BobBradshaw
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#8 Post by BobBradshaw » 08 Dec 2020, 05:34

Thanks, Michael.
1/Bob Bradshaw
2/bobbybradshw@yahoo.com
3/The poem is my original
4/and unpublished work
5/and that I don't have a poem committed to represent another board in the current IBPC.

Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna Mozart


With Johann I constantly itched,
and my lower back ached
from carrying a hill up a mountain.

I could feel his feet nudge me
for sweets, sweets, sweets--and me hungry
the way I once was for Wolferl’s kisses.

I knew he was a boy
the way he kicked me--
intent on kicking the door down.

Theresia was like moonlight on a pond.
She was content treading water,
and happy as she came sloshing out.

She loved us the moment she saw us.
Johann died within a month,
but Theresia was my only girl

and Wolferl and I loved her
the way a piazza loves its fountain,
our lives centered around her.

Wolferl boasted how quickly
she mastered pooping and eating!
A prodigy right from the start!

And suddenly she is gone,
like a firefly’s lantern flickering out
by summer’s close.

My ulcerated leg demands I leave
immediately for Baden and its springs,
though no healing waters

can cure my heartsickness.
All I think about is my dead children,
Raimund, Johann, Theresia…

my heart a cave on a beach,
empty but for the waves
rushing senselessly in and out.

Kenneth2816
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#9 Post by Kenneth2816 » 09 Dec 2020, 09:32

My own unpublished work, I'm not representing elsewhere, ashworthken@yahoo.com

Body In The River

We all wear fluorescent green vests,
position ourselves 8 feet abreast.

The undergrowth is knee high and we swing sticks as we walk, calling his name.

The search leader has a walkie-talkie.
She calls no smoking.It is quiet.

It's three days since the boy's
been gone, thirteen, good looking.

This morning, the dogs got a hit
by the river bank. His clothes.

It is hard not to admire
the well groomed hair. The way

the klieg lights play off the
toad -belly white of his skin.

Michael (MV)
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#10 Post by Michael (MV) » 09 Dec 2020, 20:24

Thanks, Bob,

Good Luck in the finals

😎

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
08 Dec 2020, 05:34
Thanks, Michael.
1/Bob Bradshaw
2/bobbybradshw@yahoo.com
3/The poem is my original
4/and unpublished work
5/and that I don't have a poem committed to represent another board in the current IBPC.

Theresia Constanzia Adelheid Friedericke Maria Anna Mozart


With Johann I constantly itched,
and my lower back ached
from carrying a hill up a mountain.

I could feel his feet nudge me
for sweets, sweets, sweets--and me hungry
the way I once was for Wolferl’s kisses.

I knew he was a boy
the way he kicked me--
intent on kicking the door down.

Theresia was like moonlight on a pond.
She was content treading water,
and happy as she came sloshing out.

She loved us the moment she saw us.
Johann died within a month,
but Theresia was my only girl

and Wolferl and I loved her
the way a piazza loves its fountain,
our lives centered around her.

Wolferl boasted how quickly
she mastered pooping and eating!
A prodigy right from the start!

And suddenly she is gone,
like a firefly’s lantern flickering out
by summer’s close.

My ulcerated leg demands I leave
immediately for Baden and its springs,
though no healing waters

can cure my heartsickness.
All I think about is my dead children,
Raimund, Johann, Theresia…

my heart a cave on a beach,
empty but for the waves
rushing senselessly in and out.

Michael (MV)
Posts: 2154
Joined: 18 Apr 2005, 04:57

Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#11 Post by Michael (MV) » 09 Dec 2020, 20:27

Thanks, ken,

Good Luck in the finals

😎

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
09 Dec 2020, 09:32
My own unpublished work, I'm not representing elsewhere, ashworthken@yahoo.com

Body In The River

We all wear fluorescent green vests,
position ourselves 8 feet abreast.

The undergrowth is knee high and we swing sticks as we walk, calling his name.

The search leader has a walkie-talkie.
She calls no smoking.It is quiet.

It's three days since the boy's
been gone, thirteen, good looking.

This morning, the dogs got a hit
by the river bank. His clothes.

It is hard not to admire
the well groomed hair. The way

the klieg lights play off the
toad -belly white of his skin.

Michael (MV)
Posts: 2154
Joined: 18 Apr 2005, 04:57

Update 12/9 re Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#12 Post by Michael (MV) » 09 Dec 2020, 20:33

I am forwarding Bob's, ken's, & my poem to the finals.

Good Luck to the WB

and a wonderful holiday season
to us all
every one

😎 Michael (MV) 🐧

meenas17
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Re: Upcoming December IBPC 2020:

#13 Post by meenas17 » 10 Dec 2020, 18:17

Vey good choices, Michael.
Thanks for excluding my poem which Bob has nominated,
I know it is a poem but not one to represent the board.
Thanks Bob for your consistent encouragement.
meenas17

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