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- 11 Mar 2024, 01:33
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: A Narrow Fellow
- Replies: 8
- Views: 774
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 ...
- 10 Mar 2024, 22:22
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Published at Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY
- Replies: 3
- Views: 263
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 ...
- 10 Mar 2024, 22:08
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Becoming a Sweetie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 554
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...
- 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: 684
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)
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)
- 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: 684
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. ...
- 04 Feb 2024, 08:39
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Bob Bradshaw -Two Poems at The Lake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 765
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...
- 26 Jan 2024, 18:40
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Publication announcements
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2485
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:/...
- 18 Jan 2024, 19:22
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: God Lives (version 3)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1985
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...
- 15 Jan 2024, 12:45
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Sitting on a Cliff Taking a Selfie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1415
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)
Upon a 1st read, I am experiencing vertigo
It's almost 3am -
I should retire for now
Michael (MV)
- 15 Jan 2024, 12:28
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Rejections
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1929
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...
- 14 Jan 2024, 10:51
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: All Heart
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1350
Re: All Heart
Prompted me to find and share this:
Caleb:
Hebrew for
all HeArt
Thanks, Caleb,
Michael (MV)
Caleb:
Hebrew for
all HeArt
Thanks, Caleb,
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: 8987
Re: In Love with a Woman in her Later Years
Bernie, Billy, and Bob
brothers in broetry
Michael (MV)
brothers in broetry
Michael (MV)
- 12 Jan 2024, 04:03
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Nutritionist
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2782
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...
- 12 Jan 2024, 03:38
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Nutritionist
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2782
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...
- 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: 8987
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)
Now, I will move forward with your request to delete that poem.
Congrats on your accomplishments,
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: 8987
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)
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)
- 29 Dec 2023, 15:29
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Ode to a Worn Rug
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1894
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)
Ode to a worn rug
Michael (MV)
- 29 Dec 2023, 15:13
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Ode to a Worn Rug
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1894
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...
- 26 Dec 2023, 04:26
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Senryu About Ships on Christmas Day
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1158
Re: Senryu About Ships on Christmas Day
Frank, Merry Christmas
Imaginative:
An adorable of the shepherds for the cyber space age
Frëre Noël (MV)
Imaginative:
An adorable of the shepherds for the cyber space age
Frëre Noël (MV)
- 25 Dec 2023, 22:18
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Christmas Day 2023
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1237
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)
I like your 2023 poem from the start to especially the faithful finale.
Thank you for gifting the WB with it,
Frére Noël (MV)
- 25 Dec 2023, 18:59
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: a senyru
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1579
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
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
- 18 Dec 2023, 01:56
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Red Tulip
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12329
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 ...
- 18 Dec 2023, 01:48
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Big Guy
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12848
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)
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)
- 18 Dec 2023, 01:32
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Rolling Stone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2593
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...
- 06 Nov 2023, 06:40
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Mozart In The Fall
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4726
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 ...