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It's February 1st, and hopefully we will have our 3 by Friday. As a reminder, if you are not available to represent the Writer's Block this current monthly, then Please let us know. This will be helpful in expediting by narrowing the selection process. Thank you, and Welcome to February 2023, Michae...

It is February. Poems posted August 2022 have not yet been announced? Hi Kenneth, When I receive the latest results from the IBPC, I post the selected poems in Palaver ASAP. The latest results I have received and announced here are Poems that Placed in the August IBPC 2022: http://www.the-writers-b...

black locks bob
whire pearls flash -
time for a suitable boy

.^^ the senryu speaks the "Of Age"; not needed in the title. Just "senryu."


Michael (MV)

Black locks bob
Oyster pearls flash -
time for a suitable boy

.^^ the senryu speaks of the "Of Age"

Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/We will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop dynamic Which 1-3...

Personal, familial memory and history for an engaging poem with a finale without closure.

Bravo,



Michael

Hi Frank

Yes, I enjoyed this journal poem


Poignant finale



Michael (MV)

Virtually under the same
Scottish son-song -
To Rabbie Burns 



Relishing the awfully
good offal
guts to guts 



"Auld Lang Syne"
whiskies around the world -
Burns Nicht streaming bright 

Hi Frank, This reads like the 2nd draft of your other poem posted, Faith. Yet, neither is anywhere near your writing of poetry. Moreover, neither are the reading & writing of poetry: I haven't read a poem, because a poem has not yet been written. Remember: Show. Don't tell. Where is the show? The sh...

I was especially taken by those same lines,

like a boy storming through the streets,



Michael (MV)

Thanks, Bob, for the update.

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

04 Jan 2023, 03:59

Michael, I’m not available. Thanks though

Hi Bob

Yesterday, I gave this poem of yours a nom-nod:

https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum ... 255#p39725

^^ Please reply - accept or decline - in that designated IBPC thread, asap.

Thanks, Bob


Michael (MV)

Kenneth,

Are you available to represent the Writer's Block

with your poem My Father's Hands ?


Thank, Kenneth,

and HNY 2023

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Billy, for accepting to represent, and for providing all the needed information. Good Luck in the finals, and HNY 🍻 Michael (MV) I’m not representing another board. This is my original, unpublished work. Billy Howell-Sinnard bhowellsinnard@gmail.com A Swelling of the Ground* I walked to a cl...

Here is my proposal for Marry me, Emily Dickinson (Although, Bob, our American Emily, like the other 19thC Emily of England, and not unlike the present day Stevie Nicks - the Emily Brontë of rock-popera - was not created to be a wife and mother. At least as I believe it : creatively singular & singl...

Hi Bob, A workshop-recast of the last: Do not shake your auburn mane, the idea incomprehensible. Emily, don’t turn away - Without your love I am but a foolish old goat tangled in his own tethers. HNY 🍻 Michael (MV) Marry Me, Emily Dickinson    My heart is big like my house, waiting for you  --servan...

Hi Bob, Edvard Munch appears before me as I read this high anxiety panic attack -Yes, I realize he was earlier, but then, Poe was even earlier, and his vibe(TTH) is here, too. A build up without a release; or with pending fatal consequence - Poe again (P&P) Workshop-studies: 1/ recasted as: The skyl...

Edvard Munch appears before me as I read this high anxiety -Yes, I realize he was earlier, but then, Poe was even earlier, and his vibe(TTH) is here, too. A build up without the relief of a release. Workshop-studies: 1/ The skylight dims and darkens ^^ I like the erratic shift in the finale 2 "gunsh...

I 3rd

A Swelling of the Ground by Billy

if he is not already representing elsewhere.


Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

31 Dec 2022, 07:24

I second both nominations.

Thanks, Kenneth & Bob,

for the nom-nods.

If a 3rd is needed, I will forward "Belle of Amherst" to the finals.


HNY. 2023


Michael (MV)

Voice your recommendation(s) here, and Please let us know ASAP if you are not going to be available to represent the Writer's Block - then we will know not to consider your poems further for this month's IBPC. I/We will be looking for consensus - in keeping with a communal workshop dynamic Which 1-3...

Silent Night:

The Lull
without a bye

On the eve
of The Eve

everyone 
moving

on the same 
wavelength

like a circuit 
of multi-colored lights

Emily Dickinson:
The domesticated
literary lioness


Emily the domesticated
lioness of letters to the world
that never made a roar

Influenced by and about Emily Dickinson

Reminds me at times, as if Poe were writing about Emily Dickinson, or one of his female characters.

Poe & Emily - 2 of my kindred literary spirits

Esp like the incisive:

"Frail, yet a power to
stun death itself."




Michael (MV)