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  Siva (et al) Ideally, let's keep workshopping in the workshopping forum. From time to time, as needed, some last-minute editing/workshopping occurs - as this time but then editing is an on-going process - but we must move forward b/c of the deadline. So there is a bit of time to make minor suggest...

  Hi Siva, 3 unconditional edits; if you choose to make any changes, please go into edit mode where your poem is posted here, and modify. ASAP, Please. Thanks. 1/ abbreviate the title to "Not Merely Setting Fire" or "Not Merely Setting to Fire" 2/ made holes in three places of the head to prevent pr...

Thanks, Frank, for your interest in the upcoming IBPC. What about The Water Carrier I am recommending Siva's Cremation Is Not Merely Setting Fire: from late in October, and in light of the commentary in that poem's thread: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6383#p27803 Thanks...

Siva, If you don't already have a poem committed to represent another board for this upcoming December IBPC, then I hope you'll consider allowing, Cremation Is Not Merely Setting Fire, to represent for the Writer's Block Please reply - accept or decline - in the thread at Palaver Upcoming December I...

  and so we make our choices but there is no choice we listen to their voices ignoring our own voice           -- S. Nicks lyric from Fleetwood Mac's "Sister of the Moon" I hear John Keats -- my brother's voice free from the urn. I hear Glenn Fry moving through the waves his breath is not dead air w...

 
abandonment on the block

little activity

where have all the poets gone


Frank,

if you don't already have a poem committed to represent another board,

I hope you'll consider one from your recent.


Thanks,

Michael (MV)
 
 
 
 
 
 

  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules In this thread, from the poems posted in the workshop forum during the course of the month, recommend/nominate by title & author. Nominated poets, please acknowledge the nomin...

 
make musique
not massacre

Sacré-Cœur
 
 
 
 
 
 

  The Poetry Forum needs some poetry activity for us to feast upon and ready for the upcoming December IBPC. I'll initiate the specific monthly thread after the Thanksgiving weekend. I hope to see your presence(s) at the Writer's Block poetry forum before, during, & after the November holiday. A saf...

  Thanks, Frank, for your o.k. . "eases" is grammmatically correct I forgot the "s" b/c I was focussed on the core infinite: to "ease" 8) Michael (MV) Yes, I am happy for you to do that Michael, Please note British speech quotes are thus: 'thus,' he said. not American thus: "thus," he said. I am not...

  Hi Frank, Thanks for agreeing & for your prompt response; and . . . . . Although I specified workshopping in the workshop forum, I see here now a need to highly recommend that since there is so much documentation before the reader can commence with the poem itself, I recommend as: after Killing Th...

  Thanks, Bernie - good luck in the finals I had hoped, as usual, that others might voice recommendations. and also no response from Bob - I'm sending a PM therefore, Frank, the comments in the thread of your poem Killing them Softly (2012) encourage me to request: if you don't already have a poem c...

Bob's My Garden Cooled Her Heels

and Parfum by bernie


I have requested their permission in the threads where I have commented on each of poems.

Waiting to here from each in this designated thread.


Any other recommendations.

Please voice here in this thread.


Thanks



Michael (MV)

bernie, if you don't already have a poem committed to represent another board this November IBPC 2016, then please consider allowing - Parfum - to represent for the Block. Accept or decline in this thread at Palaver Upcoming November IBPC 2016 http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3...

Hi Bob, here is a link to your earlier in June: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6305 ^^ I find that in the last 3rd of that version is the 3rd person - thus I read it as a father observing w/ concern the maturation of his daughter. The current incarnation is only a first p...

  Hi Frank, Thanks for reading & commenting. I'm not literally suggesting an urn of ashes is speaking. I'm acknowledging brother-poet John Keats (btw, born October 31, 1795) as a precursor for the kinship of other poets & lyricists - fellow laureates to follow The temporal will pass - the ashes - bu...

  Hi Frank, Although I agree w/ Bob re the dynamism of the opening, I find it also over-amplifies; I recommend a reduction to a select 2: "Shaking the roof slates, Rocking the chimney pots" ^^ eliminate these 2 which are rather usual. The wind howled down the valley To the sight of the Head Crags Bl...

any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules In this thread, from the poems posted in the workshop forum during the course of the month, recommend/nominate by title & author. Nominated poets, please acknowledge the nominat...

at my age & weight - to be "wistful" and still be "whimsical" - and "nimble" too Thanks, bernie, for your observation - that phrasing might very-well characterize my existence, too - making the poem true to voice true to voice is not always true to form, perhaps 8) was Hamlet who was too much wist n...

  I hear John Keats -- my brother's voice free from the urn. I hear Glenn Fry through the waves - he's not a dead eagle. And Jackson hasn't been prodigal consciousness in the shape of the heart never pretending he'll certainly continue to be playing - what's a rock 'n roll heaven for. Singing straig...

Selected poems & commentary by Lee Nash: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2016/09 Congrats to fellow-poets recognized from other IBPC boards A special Congrats to Bob Bradshaw for 1st Place, again! and Thanks again, Mr. Bradshaw, for bringing the August Blue Ribbon to the Writer's Block Longfellow & Van Go...

  Hi Bernie, upon a 1st read-thru: I find the short lines, in general, effective; yet might revisit the one-word lines. I heard this variation for the last stanza: Careless grub - bread and wine inflicted across the white ass of the moon. "Parfum" is sufficient as title - unless maybe Le Parfum Sabb...

Frank, it's definitely ekphrastic - I admire it for that specifically it is a found-ekphrasis in that it's not just prompted after the source work, it's also structured upon & with it - components of the source are incorporated in your response poem at least as I'm reading it thus far hope to return...

Hi Frank, apparently you are really moved by this song - to found a poem upon its lyric (Upon the rock He has found His church0 and in kinship with many artists(vocalists) who have followed it; Etta James, Elvis to name just 2. From the start, and through the years to Eternity, I find for my sensibi...

  Hi Billy, workshop sharing these distilled to 3 lines less than 17 syllables     8)   Michael (MV) leaves large and small hearts purple upon the wall --   Morning Glory leaves large and small hearts the wall falls to purple --   Morning Glory  leaves large and small hearts the wall appears purple ...