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"June 1, 2024 Hi Michael Neff, Although we can post replied, we cannot start New Posts. Please help and make it possible for us to continue to initiate New Posts in the Poetry Workshop Forum and at Palaver. Thank you, Mr. Neff, Michael Virga, who has been active at the Writer's Block for about a qua...

Hi Bob,

Contact Administration - Michael Neff

Bob, where else do you workshop?

Thanks, and best to us all, every one,

Michael (MV)

  Therefore, I will post a message here to say Hi every one. I miss my residency here - Bob, what is another board where you workshop? 2 For Mother's Day weekend 2024: 1/ Her Joy continues to rhythm & rhyme with her boy I continue on (headed home) as her strong torch-song (Ruth's son-song) How can s...

TGIGF Noon on the Hill of Skulls the cross goes up the sun is waning midday morphing into midnight - the sun crucified in super star light spiders spinning in full moon light Judas dangles from a rope "It is finished” the sky weeps rain drops on my windshield her sun gone the veiled moon cradling th...

Caleb,

I like this as a working title, too.

Yet, it might be more humorus to consider

"The Lost and Found"

^^ that is to imply that is where the prodigal found they ended up at - in "The Lost and Found"




Michael (MV)

Hi Caleb, I haven't been around as much until this evening - I'm wanting to visit some before National Poetry Month 2024 finales - And yours is the 1st I happen to read, being drawn to the title; and it was indeed a good one to come home to - As I read it, the words/image "prodigal lambs" and "prodi...

Hi Caleb, This one reads to me like an unrhymed Italian sonnet. The remote rhyming of "mend" and "friend" strategically frames the octave, and brings about the finale of this sonnet-poem. Is the title a reference to Emily Dickinson's snake poem? 😎 Michael (MV) A Narrow Fellow We ate almost daily in ...

Congrats, Bob, Just became aware of this today - my visits aren't as many or as frequent. Totally agree with the editor comment. Do I recognize this poem from earlier days? And the last line of each stanza - a one-word loner-line ^^ a Bob Bradshaw signature 😎 Michael (MV) My poem “Saturday Night At ...

Hi Caleb, Although this is not a sonnet, it articulates with the artistic logic of an Italian sonnet. Here, the lines 1-7 read like a curtailed octave; and 8-11, like a curtailed sestet. The contrasting conjunction, "but," signals like a volta in a sonnet. I like this sonnet-like poem: a good form t...

Thanks, Frank, for adding the recognition of your 2 lovely & loving poems to our celebratory thread.

Too old for arousal, pleasure enough
knowing she is there.

I don’t need photographs to remind me
of her beauty.


Congrats & Cheers,

Michael (MV)

Post-Valentine's edit by Michael (MV) 1/ a haiku at Haikuniverse...check it out at https://haikuniverse.com/valentines-day-haiku-10-of-25-by-bob-bradshaw/ 2/ https://haikuniverse.com/valentines-day-haiku-12-of-25-by-michael-virga/ Congrats, Bob! Yours really is one of my Valentine's favs this year. ...

Congrats, Bob 🍻 The reading of your contrasting set of indelible poems in The Lake has been an enriching reader-writer experience. The multiple layers in the spectral figure: "blankets thin as scarves" ^^ Yes, of course - you found it - Bravo, Bob! Serendipitously, the 2nd associated with a film I s...

Congrats, Caleb 👏 and Thanks for sharing your achievements with the WB. Please remember for your future pub credits: This is the forum is Workshopping poetry. The appropriate place to post announcements is Palaver. Although you have visited Palaver before, here is a link to serve as a model: https:/...

Hi Caleb, I liked the perspective of this poem I especially liked the courage & conviction of "in desires so strong that they lead to crimes." My inner ear naturally went on to hear 2 more words: crimes of passion ^^ (and crimes of passion aren't premeditated) And it's for that reason, I won't works...

Hi Caleb,

Upon a 1st read, I am experiencing vertigo
It's almost 3am -

I should retire for now

Michael (MV)

Hi Bob, Title as Rejections (after Shakespeare's sonnet 29) Or maybe as Rejections (with a nod to Shakespeare's sonnet 29) Then 6th stanza as I’d give anything to think of you the way William recalled his love as larks arising from sullen earth singing hymns,   but this is the real world, baby, Then...

Prompted me to find and share this:

Caleb:
Hebrew for
all HeArt


Thanks, Caleb,

Michael (MV)

Bernie, Billy, and Bob

brothers in broetry



Michael (MV)

By the way, in general, this poem is moving in the direction of evolving into "its apparent self." Frustration & conflict handled with humor. The mechanical ( ) is excess that can easily & readily be lost by deleting. In the last 10 years, although I am not a couch potato, I have gradually morphed i...

What does the poem like - in order to be genuine? The poet is a conduit to the poem. As John Keats said about Poetry: "If it doesn't come as naturally as leaves to s tree, it best not come at all.' POETICS by A.R. Ammons I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape thi...

Thank you, Frank, for the confirmation.

Now, I will move forward with your request to delete that poem.

Congrats on your accomplishments,

Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote: ↑

11 Jan 2024, 21:51

Yes, Michael. Thank you.

Hi Frank,

Please confirm in this thread that this is indeed the poem you messaged me about on 1/11/24 about deleting.

Thank you,

Michael (MV)

See here, I have returned; and I had no idea it would be so spontaneously - but when my entry moved the thread to the top, I suddenly heard & saw these words:

Ode to a worn rug




Michael (MV)

An early Healthy & Happy New Year to you, Bob, and Bravo & Congrats on your recent Recognition as Poet of the Month in The Wise Owl: https://www.thewiseowl.art/bob-bradshaw In my reading of your poem here, I believe you have found the right title - à là Neruda with humor. Perhaps I may return to thi...

Frank, Merry Christmas

Imaginative:
An adorable of the shepherds for the cyber space age

Frëre Noël (MV)