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my "the dog arrives home" is a paraphrasing of the line "the dog bounds into the room." not a workshop suggestion, esp since I read "bound" as a precise word choice to convey the experience, literally & figuratively. "bounds" phonetically connotes "bounce" - at least to me" again, too, I'm referenci...

  Hi Billy, Saying the Unsayable - but then it is no longer unsayable - did it ever need to be said an hospice poem esp that last line recalls to me the couplet poem "The Span of Life" by Robert Frost: the old dog barks backwards without getting up I can remember when he was a pup ^^ I can see his c...

Hi, morkhenderson, and Welcome to the Writer's Block! here at writer's block we are a location not a hang-up Since you posted this late in the month of February, and since it did not receive a workshop comment until this month March 7, how about - hopefully - this imaginative poem will receive more ...

  Hi Siva, I like: "Not for you the harmless rubber like mud snakes;" ^^ except "harmless" is an adjective that can be avoided, if shown as: Not for you the rubber worm-like mud snakes; And I, too, have heard another variation on the last, which you might consider at this time: Only the ear tunnelin...

  Siva, Thanks for accepting & for providing all the info and the poem, which I will forward as you have posted here in this IBPC thread; however, on occasion- and this is not mandatory or conditional - I need to bring a workshopping to your attention that I read now thsat the last line is wordy - o...

 
Thanks, Siva,

however, this poem represents in the February IBPC, for the Writer's Block.


How about the short form poem: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6222




Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
  


 

Siva, If you don't already have a poem committed to represent in this upcoming March IBPC, then please consider allowing the poem currently titled I leave this at your ear for when you wake to represent for the Writer's Block. If accepting, please provide all needed info & the poem as you would like...

  Siva, If you don't already have a poem committed to represent in this upcoming March IBPC, then please consider allowing the poem currently titled I leave this at your ear for when you wake   http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6226 to represent for the Writer's Block. If ac...

  Hi Siva, re: "Can you please suggest the title also?" poetic coincidence that you ask that, because I noticed here a wryness in the rhyme of "wake" & "snake" abbreviate title to "for when you wake" or the even quicker "when you wake" in the spirit of creativity 8) Michael (MV) Michael, Thanks. Old...

  Hi Siva, a nemesis poem - like in pagan mythology - the punishment is figurative of the crime workshop illustrated for your perusal & consideration   -- Michael (MV) Old man, who sleeps on the charpoy you've heard of the wiry snake that tunnels from ear to ear making a 'u' curve in your jaw, letti...

  Since Billy's In Perpetuity is workshopped through February, and that includes a current IBPC nod from Siva http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6198#p26660 ^^ then, Billy, if you don't already have a poem committed to represent in this upcoming March IBPC, then please consid...

 
Poems & commentary by Lee Slonimsky:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2016/01


Congrats to fellow-poets & the boards they represented




Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Hi Billy,

some after thoughts: 

the One
that is every

the One
that is every-ever

the One
that is every
ever after


not afterlife
life after here



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

  The last 3 lines like this poem itself yes, leaving this city leaving this world I want to glide down over Mulholland I want to write her name in the sky Gonna free fall out into nothin' Gonna leave this world for a while         -- Tom Petty – "Free Fallin'"   1989   8) 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...

 
Hi Billy,


for the last, instead of

the One
that is Many

consider

the One
that is All



 8)

Michael (MV)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
ever notice
that Noël
has the look of Love

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  he ☮ rts of gold not ruby or blue blood deep purple in unison with the Light we keep the view real to real heart to soul still reeling ultraviolet through my veins like when as small as a school boy you arrived maternal mode in movie star style Gloria via open sedan (& still I can't wait) how I fl...

and Thanks for bringing another IBPC recognition to the Writer's Block Poems & commentary by Barbara Siegel Carlson: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/12 Congrats to fellow-poets & the boards they represented 8) Michael (MV) It was so nice to see that you have made it this time also.Congratulations and...

  Frank, The poem now titled (upon your request) Recruitment India 1982 was posted/workshopped in early January: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6203 also Frank, re " 5/ I am not representing any other forum with this poem in the IBPC " ^^ in particular that phrase "with t...

  Thanks, Billy, and Good luck in the finals. I'm recommending one that bernie commented on: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6203#p26544 Frank, if you don't already have a poem committed to representing another board this February IBPC, would you please allow Recruitment D...

  Billy, If you don't already have a poem committed to representing another board this February IBPC, would you please allow Spring Came Early to represent the Writer's Block. Please accept or decline in this thread. If accepting, please provide all the needed info as usual. Thanks, Billy 8) Michael...

  Frank; Billy: I'm much in accord with Billy's assessment here. Sincerely, Michael (MV) I don't know Fredforth, this sounds like a description I would read in National Geographic except for the last line which the "so-long" trips me up. I figure you are trying for alliteration with ling'ring lookin...

 
Thanks, Frank, for clarifying.

Sincerely, Michael (MV)

FredFourth wrote:No Its a sort of explanation of the poem and some marks on a critique, shall I take it off?

 
 
 
 
 

  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...