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I'm recommending Billy's Talking To Myself Without Praying . Billy, accept or decline here in this thread; if accepting please provide all the usual needed info. Thanks, Billy Michael (MV)   any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdel...

any newcomers or returnees this month, 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 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each author ...

Hi IC, As I read this, 2 Emily Dickinsons poems surface; see below. The last 2 stanzas are strong; yet workshop suggesting -- Rain can kill. Roses die. From the window the dirt road bends into a sky pocked with footprints, tire marks, pebbles, and gold dust from spring. ^^ Are both "residues" & "dus...

Hi IC, Welcome to the Block! enjoyed/appreciated these snapshot stanzas workshop below   8)   Michael (MV) Goodbye to tulips sunflowers & azaleas. Hello, daisies! Lugging sacks of loam I leave the door open for flies to out sing the chimes. ^^ I like the senryu humor of this 2ns stanza Weedy dirt pa...

celebrating my true colors
in the home of the brave


David
Michael (MV)
Heathcliff


upon the land the son sets you free

any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Instead of 2, the IBPC board has returned to each board representing with up to 3 poems. ^^ by 3 different poets of course. Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted h...

here: holding my breath as if to examine it in a petri dish it being this life like a delicate jelly fish as: holding my breath as if to examine it in a petri dish this life delicate like a jelly fish esp liked, and suggesting the echo I heard: moving in the water barely perceptible until it stings ...

                  "Victorio's Secret" my snug T shirt hangs over my shoulders and covers my bare chest like a breastplate & the cotton hugs my chubby torso like a lover my boxer briefs keep my bone buried where ever worn close in time never left behind the putting on as familiar as taking off as sen...

Link to the IBPC poems that placed for June 2013 & Linda Sue Grimes' commentary:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2013/06

Congrats to the poets who placed, and to their boards



Michael (MV)

 

 

 
 
 

Hi Siva, barely was able to get Billy's Guernica and "the holy hounding / on the arena green" Rus has truly been kind & patient about these deadlines - and with this final under his managership, I unintentionally, needless to say, pushed it beyond the max. I, on behalf of the Block, was fortunate to...

To make it official, I permit, my original, unpublished poem "the holy hounding / on the arena green" to represent the Block. I'm not representing any other house this June 2013 IBPC. So, how about Billy & Siva. Please rely in this thread ASAP - if accepting, please provide all the needed info. Than...

Thanks Billy for the nom-nod.

I'm looking at Siva's snake poem

and Billy's surreal talking not praying poem, which lends itself to dream interpretation

I have read/been reading, but too busy to workshop.




Michael (MV)

 
 
 

any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Instead of 2, the IBPC board has returned to each board representing with up to 3 poems. ^^ by 3 different poets of course. Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted h...

In the conversion of a money-saving device to a life preserver, I find & hear a parable among the ruins. 1/ The "Ark" version: Disarming the twister, a bankers' vault yielded shelter investing a melting pot not for carats, but in a priceless return: 24 lives. 2/ The "Good Samaritan" version: Disarmi...

Hi Siva, You are welcome to those lines. I would not have discovered them, if it had not been for your poem in progress. Reading & critiquing are also part of the creative process. in the spirit of workshopping & creativity 8) Michael (MV) Michael I am not able to edit this immediately.Maybe early n...

Facera---To Do like when the stock market crashed - the great depression here the farmer's market We are 'au courant,' feckless of this friction, lethargic as an adhesive traction. variations: lethargic as self-adhesive. lethargic as quicksand. lethargic as a photo shoot put to rest on a living roo...

and Congrats to the Block

Thanks, Billy, for bringing home 1st Place to the Block.


Link to the IBPC poems that placed for May 2013 & Linda Sue Grimes' commentary:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2013/05

 
 
 

Michael (MV)



 
 
 
 
 
 

"the holy hounding / on the arena green" my youth is not lost Atlantis not bone-buried this is how I grieve full-bodied to heighten and even overwhelm the overcome the flesh still sensates and resonates endowment from the soul for life passion marks remove the thorn - healed by a purple heart of gol...

Thanks, Siva, and good luck in the finals. The 3 are launched. Good luck to us, the Block 8) Michael (MV)     Thank you Michael for suggesting my poem. This is my unpublished poem and I am not representing any other group.My e-mail id is sivakamivelliangiri@gmail.com "My First Smocked Chemise" In th...

In addition to Billy's poem, "Go ask Hamlet, I know he'll know" will be representing: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5634&p=23871&sid=86defe71966bccaa26a8773dd3c0ccb4#p23871 For a 3rd I'm PMing Siva re Remembering My First Smocked Chemise ("My First Smocked Chemise") Good...

Thanks, Billy, and good luck in the finals   :)   Michael (MV) I'd be honored to represent the Block. This is my original work and has not been published. I'm not representing any other board. Billy Howell-Sinnard bhowellsinnard@gmail.com A Trail of Bodies I've always wondered if she survived. It wa...

Someone from another IBPC board gave this poem an IBPC recommendation,

which I declined knowing that the Block would need representation.

Based on this nom-nod, and reviews I have received elsewhere,

this poem will be one of the 2-3 to represent the Block this IBPC.




Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 

Hi Billy, Although I don't have time to workshop, (and I haven't b/c I really haven't seen anything immediate as of yet to suggest, perhaps some fine fine tuning yet) I have read this poem several times since you have posted it. I was impressed from the start. Would you please consider letting A Tra...

Hi Siva, re the 2nd, 3rd & 4th stanzas: "The neat and exquisite finish for three month to twelve- year old girls." ^^ I don't believe this is needed. "The neat and exquisite finish" - I believe this is already said here: "minutely executed, equally spaced stitches as if precision was computer marked...