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by FranktheFrank
30 Aug 2023, 13:00
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

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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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 ...
by FranktheFrank
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
by FranktheFrank
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
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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, ...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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?'
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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 ...
by FranktheFrank
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.
by FranktheFrank
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...
by FranktheFrank
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.