Upcoming October IBPC 2017:

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Michael (MV)
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Joined: 18 Apr 2005, 04:57

Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2017:

#26 Post by Michael (MV) » 06 Oct 2017, 11:40

 
Thanks bernie,

for allowing your poem Not Illegal In Mississippi to bring the total to three representing WB.

Please provide:

1/ a statement that this is your original poem

2/ and that you don't have a poem representing any other IBPC board

3/ your e-mail

Thanks, mojave

Michael (MV)

Bernie01 wrote:Michael---

if this is still current---


Not Illegal In Mississippi

I notice you writing a letter
as the burgeoning hush
falls across the library,
the stillness on me like a cat,
green table lamps looking back.

Forgive my unasked calculations,
but as you linger until closing
I imagine myself mentioned once
in your note where you smile,
your dark lashes lower and close
for a man I will not know by name.

I would share your table, your paper
and the shell of your private life;
I would be a starched sailor dropping
by rope from the rigging to your table.
A man with eyes the color of seaweed
and a red bandanna fixed at the throat.

I tie a blanch of red grapes to your lapel,
lonely Pluto looks on, stars keep
to themselves and burn to the ground.



my unpublished poem

Bernard Henrie

Kenneth2816
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Joined: 01 Jun 2008, 09:17

Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2017:

#27 Post by Kenneth2816 » 06 Oct 2017, 15:56

I believe the Block will do well

Kenneth2816
Posts: 1619
Joined: 01 Jun 2008, 09:17

Re: Upcoming October IBPC 2017:

#28 Post by Kenneth2816 » 11 Oct 2017, 19:27

I'm pretty sure guys, we have at least one poem that will be in the top three

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