2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#1 Post by Billy » 20 Apr 2021, 08:32

Congratulations, Michael and Bob

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#2 Post by Kenneth2816 » 20 Apr 2021, 16:28

Congratulations

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#3 Post by Michael (MV) » 22 Apr 2021, 01:47

Thanks, Billy,

Wonderful to be up in the ranks with you

8)

Michael (MV)

Billy wrote:
20 Apr 2021, 08:32
Congratulations, Michael and Bob

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#4 Post by Michael (MV) » 22 Apr 2021, 01:51

Please Note:

This is actually the initial post by Bob.
I inadvertently got the thread out of order; and not only did I fail to put this entry back to the top, but in trying to do so, the entry now identifies me as the author of the post.

Bob is the author of this post, the initial message quoted below.

My sincere apology to Bob, and to the Writer's Block.

I am at my wit's end on how to restore to the original.

Michael (MV)

Bob Wrote:

"Congratulations, Michael, for taking 2nd place in the IBPC monthly contest with your delightful poem ""The Heart is not earthbound"!!!!!!"

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#5 Post by Michael (MV) » 22 Apr 2021, 01:53

Thanks, Bob, and Congrats to you , too!

And Thanks for announcing this wonderful moment in my writing life.

Kind of you, my brother in Creativity

8)

Michael (MV)

Michael (MV) wrote:
22 Apr 2021, 01:51
Congratulations, Michael, for taking 2nd place in the IBPC monthly contest with your delightful poem ""The Heart is not earthbound"!!!!!!

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#6 Post by Michael (MV) » 22 Apr 2021, 01:54

Thanks, Kenneth,

Wonderful to be up in the ranks with you

8)

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
20 Apr 2021, 16:28
Congratulations

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#7 Post by Kenneth2816 » 22 Apr 2021, 07:11

SECOND PLACE
The Heart is not earthbound
by Michael Virga
The Writer's Block

1/ Brontë on the rocks

Strong will
winds rains moors crags —
definitive high rock
opera before the art went
hi-tech.

2/ king of pain

Heathcliff:
Novel study
on the keen scent of male
grief – the wuthering howls – reign of
mad dog

3/ kindred Spirits make guest appearances

Stoker’s
Count Dracula
inspired after Brontë’s
Heathcliff. Real super naturals
don’t die.

4/ the soul mates never out of print

Brontë –
beyond bound books:
In creating Heathcliff
Emily’s reincarnated
her self

5/ Art imitating everlasting Life

Heathcliff:
“Would you like to
step out into the air?”
Cathy: “Always.” Promises are
“Always.”

6/ The Heights beyond the wuthering

He wails:
“Cathy, My Love,
come back!” Instead, their Heart
forwards the 2 out of the house
for Home



What a playful and humorous poem. Each section is like a series of postcards that economize language yet burst with spontaneity. The subtitles themselves read like taglines for a relationship; the postcard-like script deepens the mystique and humor. If we read, characters stay with us, especially the exaggerated and Romantic who help frame our passage and “never die.” In a less print world, or a more “hi-tech” one, where images move past us, we are less apt to find the drama in the texture of the landscape or “reincarnate” ourselves through our craft, or that is how it can feel. Though these are fairly clipped and conversational in tone at times, like in a found poem, they bring us in, like fragments do, as in Sappho’s, still you in the lens with that sense of “always.” --Nicole Greaves

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Re: 2nd place in IBPC- Congrats!

#8 Post by Michael (MV) » 23 Apr 2021, 17:07

Thanks, Kenneth, for sharing the time to post this placement.

Good weekend to ya,

😎

Michael (MV)

Kenneth2816 wrote:
22 Apr 2021, 07:11
SECOND PLACE
The Heart is not earthbound
by Michael Virga
The Writer's Block

1/ Brontë on the rocks

Strong will
winds rains moors crags —
definitive high rock
opera before the art went
hi-tech.

2/ king of pain

Heathcliff:
Novel study
on the keen scent of male
grief – the wuthering howls – reign of
mad dog

3/ kindred Spirits make guest appearances

Stoker’s
Count Dracula
inspired after Brontë’s
Heathcliff. Real super naturals
don’t die.

4/ the soul mates never out of print

Brontë –
beyond bound books:
In creating Heathcliff
Emily’s reincarnated
her self

5/ Art imitating everlasting Life

Heathcliff:
“Would you like to
step out into the air?”
Cathy: “Always.” Promises are
“Always.”

6/ The Heights beyond the wuthering

He wails:
“Cathy, My Love,
come back!” Instead, their Heart
forwards the 2 out of the house
for Home



What a playful and humorous poem. Each section is like a series of postcards that economize language yet burst with spontaneity. The subtitles themselves read like taglines for a relationship; the postcard-like script deepens the mystique and humor. If we read, characters stay with us, especially the exaggerated and Romantic who help frame our passage and “never die.” In a less print world, or a more “hi-tech” one, where images move past us, we are less apt to find the drama in the texture of the landscape or “reincarnate” ourselves through our craft, or that is how it can feel. Though these are fairly clipped and conversational in tone at times, like in a found poem, they bring us in, like fragments do, as in Sappho’s, still you in the lens with that sense of “always.” --Nicole Greaves

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