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by Michael (MV)
11 Mar 2024, 01:33
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: A Narrow Fellow
Replies: 8
Views: 302

Re: A Narrow Fellow

Hi Caleb, This one reads to me like an unrhymed Italian sonnet. The remote rhyming of "mend" and "friend" strategically frames the octave, and brings about the finale of this sonnet-poem. Is the title a reference to Emily Dickinson's snake poem? 😎 Michael (MV) A Narrow Fellow We ate almost daily in ...
by Michael (MV)
10 Mar 2024, 22:22
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Published at Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY
Replies: 3
Views: 120

Re: Published at Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY

Congrats, Bob, Just became aware of this today - my visits aren't as many or as frequent. Totally agree with the editor comment. Do I recognize this poem from earlier days? And the last line of each stanza - a one-word loner-line ^^ a Bob Bradshaw signature 😎 Michael (MV) My poem “Saturday Night At ...
by Michael (MV)
10 Mar 2024, 22:08
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Becoming a Sweetie
Replies: 4
Views: 223

Re: Becoming a Sweetie

Hi Caleb, Although this is not a sonnet, it articulates with the artistic logic of an Italian sonnet. Here, the lines 1-7 read like a curtailed octave; and 8-11, like a curtailed sestet. The contrasting conjunction, "but," signals like a volta in a sonnet. I like this sonnet-like poem: a good form t...
by Michael (MV)
20 Feb 2024, 06:02
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Make that a Writer's Block Double   (re Haiku at Haikuniverse)
Replies: 7
Views: 481

Well, that makes this a Writer's Block Triple play

Thanks, Frank, for adding the recognition of your 2 lovely & loving poems to our celebratory thread.

Too old for arousal, pleasure enough
knowing she is there.


I don’t need photographs to remind me
of her beauty.



Congrats & Cheers,

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
16 Feb 2024, 03:14
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Make that a Writer's Block Double   (re Haiku at Haikuniverse)
Replies: 7
Views: 481

Re: Make that a Writer's Block Double   (re Haiku at Haikuniverse)

Post-Valentine's edit by Michael (MV) 1/ a haiku at Haikuniverse...check it out at https://haikuniverse.com/valentines-day-haiku-10-of-25-by-bob-bradshaw/ 2/ https://haikuniverse.com/valentines-day-haiku-12-of-25-by-michael-virga/ Congrats, Bob! Yours really is one of my Valentine's favs this year. ...
by Michael (MV)
04 Feb 2024, 08:39
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: Bob Bradshaw -Two Poems at The Lake
Replies: 3
Views: 641

Re: Bob Bradshaw -Two Poems at The Lake

Congrats, Bob 🍻 The reading of your contrasting set of indelible poems in The Lake has been an enriching reader-writer experience. The multiple layers in the spectral figure: "blankets thin as scarves" ^^ Yes, of course - you found it - Bravo, Bob! Serendipitously, the 2nd associated with a film I s...
by Michael (MV)
26 Jan 2024, 18:40
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Publication announcements
Replies: 10
Views: 2329

Re: Publication announcements

Congrats, Caleb 👏 and Thanks for sharing your achievements with the WB. Please remember for your future pub credits: This is the forum is Workshopping poetry. The appropriate place to post announcements is Palaver. Although you have visited Palaver before, here is a link to serve as a model: https:/...
by Michael (MV)
18 Jan 2024, 19:22
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: God Lives (version 3)
Replies: 9
Views: 1877

Re: God Lives (version 3)

Hi Caleb, I liked the perspective of this poem I especially liked the courage & conviction of "in desires so strong that they lead to crimes." My inner ear naturally went on to hear 2 more words: crimes of passion ^^ (and crimes of passion aren't premeditated) And it's for that reason, I won't works...
by Michael (MV)
15 Jan 2024, 12:45
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Sitting on a Cliff Taking a Selfie
Replies: 5
Views: 1331

Re: Sitting on a Cliff Taking a Selfie

Hi Caleb,

Upon a 1st read, I am experiencing vertigo 😵
It's almost 3am -

I should retire for now

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
15 Jan 2024, 12:28
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Rejections
Replies: 8
Views: 1858

Re: Rejections

Hi Bob, Title as Rejections (after Shakespeare's sonnet 29) Or maybe as Rejections (with a nod to Shakespeare's sonnet 29) Then 6th stanza as I’d give anything to think of you the way William recalled his love as larks arising from sullen earth singing hymns,   but this is the real world, baby, Then...
by Michael (MV)
14 Jan 2024, 10:51
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: All Heart
Replies: 5
Views: 1296

Re: All Heart

Prompted me to find and share this:

Caleb:
Hebrew for
all HeArt


Thanks, Caleb,

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
12 Jan 2024, 04:07
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years
Replies: 14
Views: 8855

Re: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years

Bernie, Billy, and Bob

brothers in broetry

😎

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
12 Jan 2024, 04:03
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Nutritionist
Replies: 21
Views: 2653

Re: The Nutritionist

By the way, in general, this poem is moving in the direction of evolving into "its apparent self." Frustration & conflict handled with humor. The mechanical ( ) is excess that can easily & readily be lost by deleting. In the last 10 years, although I am not a couch potato, I have gradually morphed i...
by Michael (MV)
12 Jan 2024, 03:38
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: The Nutritionist
Replies: 21
Views: 2653

Re: The Nutritionist

What does the poem like - in order to be genuine? The poet is a conduit to the poem. As John Keats said about Poetry: "If it doesn't come as naturally as leaves to s tree, it best not come at all.' POETICS by A.R. Ammons I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape thi...
by Michael (MV)
12 Jan 2024, 03:17
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years
Replies: 14
Views: 8855

Re: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years

Thank you, Frank, for the confirmation.

Now, I will move forward with your request to delete that poem.

Congrats on your accomplishments,

Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote:
11 Jan 2024, 21:51
Yes, Michael. Thank you.
by Michael (MV)
11 Jan 2024, 20:32
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years
Replies: 14
Views: 8855

Re: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years

Hi Frank,

Please confirm in this thread that this is indeed the poem you messaged me about on 1/11/24 about deleting.

Thank you,

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
29 Dec 2023, 15:29
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Ode to a Worn Rug
Replies: 12
Views: 1772

Re: Ode to a Rug

See here, I have returned; and I had no idea it would be so spontaneously - but when my entry moved the thread to the top, I suddenly heard & saw these words:

Ode to a worn rug


😎

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
29 Dec 2023, 15:13
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Ode to a Worn Rug
Replies: 12
Views: 1772

Re: Ode to a Rug

An early Healthy & Happy New Year to you, Bob, and Bravo & Congrats on your recent Recognition as Poet of the Month in The Wise Owl: https://www.thewiseowl.art/bob-bradshaw In my reading of your poem here, I believe you have found the right title - à là Neruda with humor. Perhaps I may return to thi...
by Michael (MV)
26 Dec 2023, 04:26
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Senryu About Ships on Christmas Day
Replies: 3
Views: 1070

Re: Senryu About Ships on Christmas Day

Frank, Merry ⭐ Christmas

Imaginative:
An adorable of the shepherds for the cyber space age

Frëre Noël (MV)
by Michael (MV)
25 Dec 2023, 22:18
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Christmas Day 2023
Replies: 3
Views: 1168

Re: Christmas Day 2023

Merry ⭐ Christmas, Billy,

I like your 2023 poem from the start to especially the faithful finale.

Thank you for gifting the WB with it,

Frére Noël (MV)
by Michael (MV)
25 Dec 2023, 18:59
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: a senyru
Replies: 9
Views: 1495

Re: a senyru

No, Billy is having a good day with good humor
and his senryu doesn't stink 😎

Simply put, a senryu is the the lighter, humorous side of haiku, and it's not unusual for the senryu to rhyme.

Merry ⭐ Christmas to the Writer's Block,

Frére Noèl (MV)

Her Joy
continues to rhythm & rhyme
with her boy
by Michael (MV)
18 Dec 2023, 01:56
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Red Tulip
Replies: 15
Views: 12163

Re: Red Tulip

Hi Bob, Re V3: My only workshop suggest is to consider the tile without the Red; just "Tulips" Now, if mine, I would give sensuality to the word play with the image-driven title: Two Lips I hope to spend more time here at home on the Writer's Block 😎 Michael (MV) v3: Red Tulip Everywhere it's about ...
by Michael (MV)
18 Dec 2023, 01:48
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Big Guy
Replies: 22
Views: 12612

Re: Big Guy

Hi Frank,

Much in accord with Bob.

Condense, compress, let showing do the telling, and then this draft will evolve into a poem with a more focused impact.

Michael (MV)
by Michael (MV)
18 Dec 2023, 01:32
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Rolling Stone
Replies: 3
Views: 2531

Re: Rolling Stone

Welcome to the Block, Caleb! Workshop illustrated suggestions for your perusal & consideration: Found between the covers of the ROLLING STONE: You’re not sexist if you allow your women to remove their burkas while having sex. Or maybe this more edgy is called for: You’re not sexist if you allow your...
by Michael (MV)
06 Nov 2023, 06:40
Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
Topic: Mozart In The Fall
Replies: 11
Views: 4587

Re: Mozart In The Fall

Bob, Frank, Your shared communications here tell me we have more in common than dedication to Poetry. With in the last 10 years, 3 close relatives have experienced a terminal status and then received the Miracle Life out of this world There is no end of Life - only our time here ends(as it did even ...