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for allowing Down to Earth to represent WB. Yet needed is a statement from you that you don't have a poem representing any other board this May IBPC. Siva, please provide that here, asap. Thanks. Also, reading the poem here, I'm adding 2 items: 1/ grammatical typos: Grandfather guarded his money, pa...

  I'm recommending: Siva's Down to Earth - although first posted in February, the thread received a workshopping in April Frank's A Card to Mam Revisiting Greenly Park by Chris Please reply - accept or decline - in this thread. If accepting, please provide all the needed info as delineated in the in...

  Hi Frank, for your perusal & consideration   :)   Michael (MV) A boy of nine lakeside in Brissago on Maggiore's western shore writes as clouds darken his pen scratching "Dear Mam and Dad," a black mist spotting every clichéd line "Hope you are well... " and the snow falls . . . glancing at his pro...

Thanks Frank for reposting A Card to Mam, making it current; and thanks for the making it available for consideration for May. Should there be a "r" at the end of "spielzimme"? Is the correct spelling "spielzimmer" (and isn't that German for playroom?) Also the correct spelling is "mesmerized." I su...

  Thanks, Frank, for your interest. Please note these 3 items 1/ A Card to Mam is from some months back. Therefore, please make it current by posting its current incarnation in its own thread at Where The Poets Hang for possible additional workshop & recommendation. Thanks, Frank. 2/ For the busines...

follow this link to Palaver:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6062

 

Thanks,

Michael (MV)
 
 
 
  
 
 

 
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/national-p ... ill-nixon/


Hope the month has been creative for every one




Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 
 

  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 autho...

 
A real celebration waiting for us all   "Saturday In The Park"   Robert Lamm / Chicago   V (1972)


a green concert on Earth
Day-star solar-powered close
sonic encounters of the alter
native kind no one trashed
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

 
Poems & commentary by Ned Balbo:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/03


Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets & boards

Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

(hoped to post this yesterday the 17th) . . . waited until this International Haiku Poetry Day to share this recent good news: a haiku of mine placed 2nd: http://www.bplonline.org/programs/haiku/ ^^ page 2 explains about the competition ^^ page 10 the * indicating the 2nd place haiku and The poetry ...

 
Dividing the month of poetry
like that red sea

God the repo man
not a taxman

claims
and refunds

us all everyone

 

 
 
 
  
 
 

  Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) begins in the evening of Wednesday, April 15, 2015 and ends in the evening of Thursday, April 16, 2015.   39 poets from all over the world remember the Holocaust in PSH's 17th annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue: http://poetrysuperhighway.co...

 
39 poets from all over the world remember the Holocaust in PSH's 17th annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/2015/ ... ssue-2015/




 

 

 
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.” – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin


what is the distance
between two hearts


no where occupying
spaceless


I am with you always
from enfance to Infinity
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

  Thank God it's Righteous Friday and I am found constructing a calligram from & for Ecco Homo We don't need another hero / We don't need to know the way home / All we [need] is life beyond the thunderdome       -- lyric Tina Turner recorded for Mad Max 30 years ago                               M i...

  Hi Billy, I discovered this - your wonderful poem - last evening. Each stanza is imaginatively stellar regardless of my workshop suggestions shared below, which I find are encouraged by the creative spirit of the poem. Billy, If you are not already committed to representing a board this upcoming A...

 
Poems & commentary by Ned Balbo:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/02


Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets & boards

Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 
 

  Thanks, Franks. Please post your acceptance for "Kitty" to represent the WB in the upcoming IBPC in the thread at Palaver Upcoming April IBPC 2015 : http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6046 Please provide ALL the needed info, including the poem as you would like it forwarded...

  Hi Frank, your poem has been nominated for the upcoming IBPC: Upcoming April IBPC 2015: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6046 I agree w/ Billy re another title. That last stanza is overwrite summation; the previous shows that already. My other suggestions - based upon my ...

  Thanks, Siva, for the seconding Thanks, Billy, for the follow-up, and although I now understand what you mean, the line refers to each being a straight-line wind(a passionate vitality) - a couple of straight-line winds each one of the couple moves like a straight-line wind unparalleled (as in uneq...

Thanks, Billy. re your question: "Do you mean 'save unparalleled straight-line winds'?" Those are the words: "save unparalleled straight-lines winds" I'm not sure what you are specifically asking, Billy. Thanks, Billy, for your interest & recommendation of this diptych poem 8) Michael (MV)          ...

         expected yet sudden boundless storm without upheaval                                      at the Heights       save unparalleled straight-lines winds                                                         co inside w/ the Eye of the wonder       lifted from collision upon the moors forever...

March is all but gone

need some last minute poetry activity


Here's the link to the thread Upcoming April IBPC 2015 at Palaver: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6046


a good week to every one



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 

  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 autho...