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  Nothing gold can stay     - - Robert Frost  brother of the moon & sister of the sun an undivorced vow keeping the view 20 / 20 "Put out the light, then put out the light” a marriage beautiful for the bravery Love is natural Othello loving the light & Desdemona the black moor nature is not natural ...

 
Hi meenas17,


Wordsworth's poem surfaces https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/daffodils




Michael (MV)

 

 

 

 
 

  Hi Bob, this was on the Bing homepage Sunday: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Blue-footed+booby&form=hpcapt&filters=HpDate%3a%2220170312_0700%22 love the finale: red heart and blue feet - red & blue create purple - Victory consider beau for "bachelor" . . . At last for ever last she loses her heart ...

 
January IBPC poems selected by Sara Clancy & commentary:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2017/01


Congrats to Billy for his 3rd place poem


and Congrats to fellow-poets recognized from other IBPC boards




Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 

  Hi Meena. it is not a poem that can be read backwards - thus by that definition, it is not a reverse poem that it redeems the physiological literal(heart failure) metaphorically(there is no failure of the heart - courage) - in that way, perhaps the term reverse might apply "Make it new"     Ezra P...

Thanks, Meena, Good Luck in the finals Michael (MV)   1. Meena 2. meenas17@gmail.com 3. It is my original. 4. It is unpublished. 5. I am not representing the current IBPC The poem as I would like it forwarded Doing Something Worth The Nothing. My friends ask "What do you do all day?" I smile. It is ...

  Hi Frank, formally, it is free form turning/reversing the cliché - hopefully making new Heart here isn't cardiovascular - it's metaphor for the pulse & redemption of life The 1st stanza is defies the conditions The congested 2nd stanza giving agency - and in the imperative mood - Heart, attack, et...

 
Thus far, Bob has accepted & provided all the needed info.

At this time I accept to represent with "davidic"


Waiting for a 3rd.


ASAP Please


Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote:What poems are going through Michael?

 

 
 
 
 
 

  Thanks, Bob, and Good Luck in the finals, Michael (MV) Thank you, Michael! 1/Bob Bradshaw 2/bobbybradshw@yahoo.com 3/The poem is my original 4/and unpublished work 5/and that I am not representing in the current IBPC 6/and the poem as you would like it forwarded to the finals. A Dog's Bowl We walk...

Hi Siva, Thanks for reading & commenting. Poetry is not science and ultimately does not answer to Why. The last 3 lines are indeed a triune while also the 3rd, 4th, and 5th lines in UniSon with the initial couplet of that 5-line stanza. 8) Michael (MV) I read this several times.I like it but am not ...

Hi Billy,

esp liked

"the night maternal
holding me close in a secret
vastness we shared,"




Michael (MV)

  
a long love
letter forever

all for the warmth
of an unending
love affair

I live
my life dying
for love

and Absolute Love is always only One heartbeat away


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrb3o9eLYNY

 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 
I'm adding Bob's A Dog's Bowl to the nom-nods


Thanks, Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote:Meena: Doing Something with the Nothing

Siva: Poet with 20:20 Vision

Michael: Davidic

 
 
 
 

 
At this time,

will each nominated poet let us know

if the nominated poem is or is not

available for further consideration


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...

  not heartache not heart-broken not bleeding heart instead heart attack heart burn from a pounding of the heart beating with a passion for protection there is no heart failure from the start the heart alright already by-passing the headstone the heart of gold ruby-red & blue-black outpacing the rea...

  Hi Siva, re that title:   Poets have 20/20 Vision Artists have 20/20 Vision or w/out that "have" Poets with 20/20 Vision "History is in the habit of repeating herself."   - the bond of original sin - like a spider spinning - like a habitual liar - creatures of habit - creature/nature - but we are ...

  
Hi meenas17,


"Doing Something Worth The Nothing" : "Sound & fury signifying nothing"


"Not all those who wander are lost"   - J. R. R. Tolkien .


I range I roam I read I write - an audiovore an artivore - therefore I am    Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 

 
Hi l-p,


Excellent title

Yes, "think nothing of it" - this is not about thought - this is a poem like a passion mark;

it follows that I esp adore & admire: "This heartache does not want to be tamed."




Michael (MV)
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 
December IBPC poems selected by Richard Krawiec & commentary:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2016/12


Congrats to fellow-poets recognized from other IBPC boards




Michael (MV)







 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  This current is excellent, strong. Thus, the revisit & revision was a productive process. Many writers have observed that revising is rewarding. True grief is not synonymous with sentimentality. When I consider male grief, Heathcliff appears. ". . . I sit up in the middle of the night with moist e...

  Hi Bob, Browning comes to mind: "God's in His heaven— All's right with the world! " “On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.” "What's a Heaven for?" Workshop suggest this lineage: One neighbor bitches that my Japanese maple is dropping leaves in her yard. 8) Michael (MV...

I esp liked: "I confess, in the heart of night, I imagine myself cascading on my lover’s body" workshop consider "over" for "on" I also liked the finale' yet workshop sharing as: " . . . I hide the salt crashing on the reef of you inside my veins." and the simple, yet strong title 8) Michael (MV)

Hi Billy,

the center one

the heart


valentines--
i only need
send one


Love of 2 is one





Michael (MV)

  Love doesn't lie Love sleeps around and is alive in every bed forever unmade memory over the moon every bed a palliative launching pad for the Miracle Lift catch the wind but never catch me The Vision of God's country so beautiful The Lord takes my breath away the same boy I'll always be the son-s...