Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

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Michael (MV)
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Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 29 Oct 2021, 18:33

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4/and unpublished work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 November IBPC 2021:

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 31 Oct 2021, 21:06

I nominate Frank's "Nona at the Bridge", Ken's "Not a Poem About Fall", and Billy's "This Story Desperate to Live Again".

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#3 Post by FranktheFrank » 01 Nov 2021, 11:59

Thanks Bob, much appreciated.

I am bowing out of selection and leaving it to you guys to decide.

But any of yours, Bob, is definitely worthy of representing the Block.

My thanks an appreciation to the Writer's Block forum for providing such a platform for our work,
long may it continue to do so.

Ieuan ap Hywel

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#4 Post by Kenneth2816 » 02 Nov 2021, 15:55

I appreciate the gesture, but decline on principle insomuch as I've not put much effort toward the forum recently and believe to accept a nom would be hypocritical.

I'd resent it if someone else did it.

It's not personal, just more activity elsewhere. All poets are whorea

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#5 Post by Michael (MV) » 02 Nov 2021, 16:21

Frank, declined.

Then, I was going to recommend one by Bob, one by Billy, and one by Kenneth - each a poet's choice.

Now, I read Kenneth has declined.

Hopefully, Billy and Bob will represent, and we will have at least 2 to go forward.

And, also, maybe Frank or Kenneth will reconsider, and we will have 3.

We need to expedite please.

Please reply in this designated thread as usual

Thanks,

Michael

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#6 Post by BobBradshaw » 03 Nov 2021, 02:48

Thank you, Michael.
This is my original, unpublished poem. I am not represented in any other forum this month.
email: bobbybradshw@yahoo.com
Bob Bradshaw

An Elephant in a China Shop


She gazes up from her counter and stares
as if she's just seen a Brontosaurus.
How did you squeeze through that door? her eyes ask.

"Yes, madam, can I help you?"

I stretch my trunk out to shake hands
but she steps back as if a shotgun
is being pointed at her chest.

I point to a sign, "SALE -- CUPS
FOR A JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY."
"Ah," she sighs, her blood

returning to her cheeks.
"I can retrieve some for you. Just
don't move. I'll be right back."


My weight shifts slightly, and porcelain
rattles like a room of chimes.
"Don't move!" comes from somewhere.

She returns with a snooty voice.
"Sorry, I checked with my manager.
We're not allowed to sell to elephants."


Suddenly I'm a bull in a rodeo chute,
ready to bust something.
I look back towards the street. My sisters,

their faces pressed against the glass,
are raising their trunks,
to ask "Will you be out soon?"

I glare at the sales lady, then
glancing back to the front window
I raise my long hand, waving
my sisters to come on
in.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#7 Post by Kenneth2816 » 03 Nov 2021, 11:27

Still decline. It's final.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#8 Post by FranktheFrank » 03 Nov 2021, 11:40

I have not declined, just made a note that I am leaving the selection to fellow poets.

Of course I accept Bob's nomination
I would be honoured to represent the block.
Always have done so and always will.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#9 Post by FranktheFrank » 03 Nov 2021, 11:55

Cycling Across t' Bridge
Pantoum
by Ieuan ap Hywel

Wending my way agin wind and wet weather
wearing oilproofs and yellow sou’wester.
Astonished to see Nona waiting for me,
straddling the bar of her dad's rusty bike.

Oilproofs flapping I look up to see
wind whipping water up from the weir.
Her dress draping over her boneshaker bike,
spray splashing onto her long chestnut hair.

The wind whipping water up from the weir.
Proud, standing tall, red-knitted cardigan.
Fizzing white foam spraying onto her hair.
Standing sedate, top button undone.

Proud, standing tall, tight-fitting cardigan.
Weaving my way agin wind and wet weather.
Statuesque, standing tall, top button undone.
Non at the bridge, wistful, waiting for me.

My original poem
ieuanaphywel@aol.com
I am not representing any other forum with this poem
It has not been published before.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#10 Post by BobBradshaw » 03 Nov 2021, 22:20

Frank, when you say you're bowing out of selection, it sounds like you are declining. It's confusing. But I'm glad your poem is available. It's a fine poem.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#11 Post by Billy » 03 Nov 2021, 22:42

I have to decline. Thanks for nom.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#12 Post by FranktheFrank » 03 Nov 2021, 23:01

Yes, I see that I have confused you all.
My apologise to all.
I meant that I am happy to allow fellow poets chose.
In the old days when I first joined, Michael gave the nod for most of the sections
as there were few posting work.

If it's any help I agree to the noms already given.

I have posted my poem, it is ready to go forward if chosen.

Again sorry for the confusion caused by my earlier post.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#13 Post by BobBradshaw » 04 Nov 2021, 07:21

Frank, no worries. Looking forward to your next poem.

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Re: Upcoming November IBPC 2021:

#14 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Nov 2021, 22:19

Thanks, Bob; Thanks, Frank,

for accepting to represent.

Good Luck in the finals

😎

Michael (MV)

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