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About this poem: a broem

brother(hood) + poem = Broem

Broetry

A free-formed broem influenced by Brontë

the sister who created the man


Bronte + poem + brother



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

  You are Heathcliff I am Heathcliff both able                         and we are off                              beat and our heart beats                                               like a nomad-bastard racing bareback on horseback our undivided days Estranged regardless I am with you all ways a...

Welcome macmacyo Romus and/vs Remus :) I like the metaphor. I believe it can be developed w/ more specification. wolf & werewolf 8) Michael (MV) "and so we make our choices but there is no choice we listen to their voices ignoring our own voice" --- from the lyric "Siater of the Moon" by S. Nicks / FM

Hi Siva,

perhaps some of the detail from the original would be of service to the current incarnation.




Michael (MV)

Judged by Deborah Bogen First Place Gretel Grows Up by Teresa White Wild Poetry Forum I never wander far from home while the sun peels paint from twenty-year old siding or the blood of rust trickles off billboards over on Cheney highway. Everything changes these old markers year by lonesome year – t...

Welcome Woetrame :) Upon a 1st read thru: This line really resonates with this reader-writer: "Nothing begins and Nothing is left." the Universal chord - echoes of ashes to ashes, dust to dust ^^ thus could br read/viewed as a Vanitas poem I like the title, and it prompts me to suggest that a variat...

Judged by Deborah Bogen First Place Down the Street by Fred Longworth The Waters The kite slings upward into the wind, and for a moment the two boys shout like pole vaulters clearing a higher bar. Then it dives hard toward the grass, and the boys look her way because they want to holler things she w...

Judged by Polina Barskova First Place Dying in Jerusalem by Daniel Abelman conjunction My hair was my badge. I found joy and took pride in it, but the women came on my wedding night and shaved my head. I had seen pictures of what could have been me in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, and felt I w...

Thanks Siva.

Although it's probably safe to assume it is unpublished,

please post a statement here confirming that The Living And The Dying

is indeed unpublished.

Thanks, Siva.



Michael (MV)

 
 
 

Hi Siva, No reply from johnraftery. Final call Are you still available Will you please represent Waiting one more day, final day, 'til Tuesday. Siva, please remain on stand-by. Thanks   :) Michael (MV) Michael Do you think we can wait for one more day for johnraftery? I am wary of letting go somethi...

Thanks Clay for providing all the info. Good Luck in the finals. Michael (MV)   Grand. Clay Hunsaker chunsak@live.com This is my original, unpublished work. I am not representing in the current IBPC. KILLING THE INNOCENT they say high blood pressure is the silent killer it comes in the night or at t...

Waiting one more day, final day, 'til Tuesday.

Siva, please remain on stand-by.

Thanks  

Michael (MV)

SivaRamanathan wrote:Michael


Do you think we can wait for one more day for johnraftery?
I am wary of letting go something so beautiful.

Siva

SnickleFrittes, Not too late. Thanks for accepting to let KILLING THE INNOCENT represent the Block this IBPC ASAP we need posted here in this thread: 1/Your name 2/e-mail address 3/statement that the poem is your original 4/and unpublished work 5/and that you are not representing in the current IBPC...

No reply from johnraftery or SnickleFrittes.


Because of the deadline, I'm PMing Siva re The Living and the Dying.


Michael (MV)

 

 

 

Hi Siva(et al),

I have already in the thread upcoming IBPC for February 2013 @ Palaver: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5556

Michael (MV)

SivaRamanathan wrote:Michael
Please nominate this poem.

On Wed 1/30 I PM'd both johnraftery and SnickleFrittes, and provided them w/ a link to this thread.

As of this posting, no response from either.




Michael (MV)

 

 

 
 

e e cummings' theme of nonconformity comes to mind


"on the trains
with no seats."




Michael (MV)



 

 

 

 

for newcomers, Welcome   :) and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 2 are decided upon, and permission granted by the authors, I then forward the 2 ...

 
Nativity


the gift that is never wrapped up
free from captivity
of packaging

the gift that keeps giving
to receive longevity

I am with you . . .
all ways of activity

that gift with that kind of intensity
that is forever present
ever ready to deliver


Creativity



 
 
 
 
 
 

re: "And we had a wall where the eyes of Jesus hung watching Mother's black apron gather her shaking hands." ^^ Although I understand the grammar issue of the above, there is a gothic, noir air, as in eyes w/out a face If you choose to edit, here is a w/k shop suggestion: And we had a wall where Jes...

Welcome to the Block, SnickleFrittes I like how the poem *drops* down the page, a la William Carlos Williams. I like the poem   :) workshop illustrated below for your perusal & consideration       -- Michael (MV) "killing the innocent"  high blood pressure is the silent killer it comes in the night ...

Welcome simonclark, This IBPC thread is in reference to the monthly IBPC. Here is the Link to the IBPC homepage: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/ for info, rules, announcements of monthly & archive of winning IBPC poems. During the month, block poets post poems at this WB forum: Writer's Block Where The P...

Thank, Siva, for representing The Block, and for providing the necessary info.

Good Luck in the finals

and Good Luck to the Block



Michael (MV)


 

 
 
 
 
 

Siva, If you are not already representing another board, and your poems are not published, how about representing the Block with one of your very recent post these past 2 weeks. Please reply here ASAP. If accepting, then please also include all the needed info, as usual. Thanks, and Happy New Year, ...

“Wonder-worker”

http://www.amazon.com/after-Christmas-a ... B008YZR81C


Santa's sack emptied
now Santa's sacked out:

the morning after
he spent his on childhood