Only you two posting, Michael and you.
So sad.
I'll be with you when my muse comes back.
Do we have muses? I wonder.
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- 30 Aug 2023, 13:00
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: That Perfect Physical Specimen, My Neighbor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2120
- 30 Aug 2023, 12:56
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: That Perfect Physical Specimen, My Neighbor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2120
Re: That Perfect Physical Specimen, My Neighbor
My Neighbour - A Perfect Physical Specimen My doctor didn’t call me into the office. He was booked up for weeks, like a beach hotel in summer. He called me on the phone. "Your MRI shows a “mass”. He avoided saying cancer. A stranger, an oncology specialist, would enlighten me on the prognosis. My mi...
- 18 Aug 2023, 01:09
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Morning Hike in Dry Creek Community Park
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1454
Re: Morning Hike in Dry Creek Community Park
I think this would work better in the 'present tense', Bob. Dry Creek National Park Hike I try to find shapes in goat-white clouds high above me. A loud “Bah!” bursts from the crag ahead. Hundreds of goats grazing under the gaze of a shaggy dog Kids butting heads; running and leaping. Narrow faces w...
- 08 Aug 2023, 01:05
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming July IBPC 2023:
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4337
Re: Upcoming July IBPC 2023:
When I started posting on here a decade or so ago, I was the only one with Siva,
Michael and a woman called Penumbra that were posting.
Michael and a woman called Penumbra that were posting.
- 27 Jul 2023, 23:59
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Donkey's Milk
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2390
Re: Donkey's Milk
Suggestions: Start with the name as title and a lead in to the prose poem. T. R. Sundaram [Space initial letters of a name] Panegyric T. R. sojourned in Leeds, originally to master the art of blending dyes. However, his interest drifted to focus on bioscope and the cinematic arts. To develop this ne...
- 04 May 2023, 20:52
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
Yes, in fact the old adage, 'concise is better,' works.
Well done.
It is a pleasure to workshop with you Bob,
Reminds me of the good times with Bernie.
Well done.
It is a pleasure to workshop with you Bob,
Reminds me of the good times with Bernie.
- 04 May 2023, 02:02
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Sailing On
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3484
Re: Sailing On
It is often a pleasure to read your ramblings, Bob. I have though this way myself, what makes us poets men who chop up lines and call it free verse. Who makes us poets but some transient zine that posts our work because it has nothing better to do. And yet we go on, writing for prosperity. At least ...
- 04 May 2023, 01:48
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2023:
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3886
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2023:
Edited today
- 03 May 2023, 10:46
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming May IBPC 2023:
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3886
Re: Upcoming May IBPC 2023:
Thanks for the nomination Bob.
And well done with Autumn Sky Daily Poetry.
This is an original poem of Ieuan ap Hywel
it has not been published and does not represent
any other board in the IBPC.
I
And well done with Autumn Sky Daily Poetry.
This is an original poem of Ieuan ap Hywel
it has not been published and does not represent
any other board in the IBPC.
I
- 02 May 2023, 19:14
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Dedication to Pythag Jones
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4371
Re: A Dedication to Pythag Jones
Revised for the month of May 2023.
- 30 Apr 2023, 11:58
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
You are open in workshopping Bob, a pleasant attitude. When she thinks that no one is watching, my wife sometimes slips out her locket, opens its clasp and gazes longingly at it. The way my grandfather used to pull from his pocket a cherished watch, tethered to a chain—to check the time of the day, ...
- 29 Apr 2023, 12:15
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
S1 if excellent and complete.
You struggle a bit in S2, Bob
You need to synthesize what you want to say
about grandpa and his watch.
I like what you are attempting to portray
but it is wordy, rambling even.
It's good to be back workshopping again.
You struggle a bit in S2, Bob
You need to synthesize what you want to say
about grandpa and his watch.
I like what you are attempting to portray
but it is wordy, rambling even.
It's good to be back workshopping again.
- 23 Apr 2023, 12:26
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
I meant it to replace the beginning, Bob.
I thought your beginning too prosaic.
Sorry.
I thought your beginning too prosaic.
Sorry.
- 23 Apr 2023, 03:35
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
Bob, the start could be softer, tenderer, not so blunt. The gold is wearing now she's worn it so long around her neck. She touches it without realising it is still part of us both The pain is till there, softer now without the bitterness It's good to remember . . . I know it's not good form to rewri...
- 20 Apr 2023, 17:55
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Fly Reflects On Emily Dickinson’s Death
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2868
Re: The Fly Reflects On Emily Dickinson’s Death
I think this is a great idea, fascinating. Who could have made a poem on her work about death and a fly. It does elicit some morbid horror, death, corruption, a fly's meal I don't know if any other poet could have developed this theme from the fly in Emily's poem. I puzzled about the king until I re...
- 18 Apr 2023, 01:02
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Cyber World Two
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2818
Re: Cyber World Two
Robert Louis Stephenson's' Treasure Island finds a castaway named Ben Gunn
his first words to the cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, were,
'You wouldn't have a bit of cheese now would you?'
his first words to the cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, were,
'You wouldn't have a bit of cheese now would you?'
- 16 Apr 2023, 13:51
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Cyber World Two
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2818
Re: Cyber World Two
Just touched up this very old poem.
- 15 Apr 2023, 03:54
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Cyber World Two
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2818
Cyber World Two
A Diary Conceit My IPS provider has severed the cord of our connection after being so fed-up with me Our correspondence becoming increasingly discordant meaningless worthless My contractual misdemeanours corrected - castigated by A1 that fails to understand the frailties of human beings To err is to...
- 15 Apr 2023, 03:34
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Iron Ore Miner (1841) -Final edit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3338
Re: Iron Ore Miner (1841)
Thank you so much Eira, so nice to see you again.
Hope you will start posting soon.
The IBPC has not moved since August last year, so we don't know what will happen.
Michael seems upbeat about it, so maybe it will start up again soon.
Very nice to see you posting remarks.
Hope you will start posting soon.
The IBPC has not moved since August last year, so we don't know what will happen.
Michael seems upbeat about it, so maybe it will start up again soon.
Very nice to see you posting remarks.
- 14 Apr 2023, 22:49
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
Poignant, Bob. My great grandmother lost a twin daughter and I inherited it through a cousin a locket with a sepia print of the 3-year old child. The image was almost completly lost until another cousin, who was interested in the genealogy, restored it. Instead of a clasp that opened it had a simple...
- 14 Apr 2023, 22:49
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: The Locket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5857
Re: The Locket
Poignant, Bob.
- 13 Apr 2023, 14:38
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Cyber World
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17437
Re: Cyber World
Cyber World I lost my IPS provider It got so fed-up with me savagely cutting the cord Our correspondence had become increasingly discordant and meaningless A jumble of contractual misdemeanours Punishments enforced by tyrannical robots that have little meaning save to the multinational corporations ...
- 13 Apr 2023, 10:31
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Dedication to Pythag Jones
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4371
Re: Miss Jones and Pythag
He he, yes she was a one, Bob.
His theorem is a lot more complicated than most people realise
and there is much more advanced mathematics involved with it
including a more modern look using the calculus. Not that
I remember much.
His theorem is a lot more complicated than most people realise
and there is much more advanced mathematics involved with it
including a more modern look using the calculus. Not that
I remember much.
- 11 Apr 2023, 21:41
- Forum: Writer's Block - Where The Poets Hang
- Topic: Dedication to Pythag Jones
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4371
Dedication to Pythag Jones
Diary Conceit Edit 1 Geometry, first year technical college With Miss Jones following Euclid’s Path, his method based on axioms or postulates leading inexorably to deducing theorems Pythagoras’ in particular Miss (Pythag) Jones tried to excite us about the derivation Of trigonometrical identities de...
- 04 Apr 2023, 21:25
- Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
- Topic: Upcoming April IBPC 2023:
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8236
Re: Upcoming April IBPC 2023:
I'm out this month. Thank you all.