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Hi Frank,

Much in accord with Bob.

Condense, compress, let showing do the telling, and then this draft will evolve into a poem with a more focused impact.

Michael (MV)

Welcome to the Block, Caleb! Workshop illustrated suggestions for your perusal & consideration: Found between the covers of the ROLLING STONE: You’re not sexist if you allow your women to remove their burkas while having sex. Or maybe this more edgy is called for: You’re not sexist if you allow your...

Bob, Frank, Your shared communications here tell me we have more in common than dedication to Poetry. With in the last 10 years, 3 close relatives have experienced a terminal status and then received the Miracle Life out of this world There is no end of Life - only our time here ends(as it did even ...

No offence felt; no apology needed. I was just observing and stating that here still exists a productive workshop, thanks to you, Frank, and Bob, and Bill - veterans of the Writer's Block. Also, I thought to explain my unusual absences. And I add here: It has nothing to do with the inactivity of the...

  Through the years, have I not provided an informed & insightful workshop-sharing? Yes, I haven't been available much this last of 2023, because I have been needed elsewhere. But I would experience another void in my life if the Writer's Block wasn't here. Yes, Thank you, Bob, Frank, and Billy for ...

  An antiqued little prince in PC place reading listening & writing without map just a guide from Pooh corner chasing an eclipse party in GPS attendance across the universe over the western hemisphere Master Robin sees Zeffirelli's brother sun caringly slipping a gold band on sister of the moon - th...

Thank you, Frank, for your cordial reception
to my reply to you: à là my explanation/update to the Writer's Block



Michael (MV)

FranktheFrank wrote: ↑

13 Oct 2023, 16:45

Well said, Michael, a fitting reply to my post.

No, I, Michael (MV) have not forgotten about or abandoned, or vacated from the Writer's Block, my cyber writer's residence. Pre-occupied on the home front, in general. I check in to read, when I can; however, I haven't had time to even cursory workshop. Re the monthly IBPC: All my inquiries to IBPC ...

Congrats!, Bob, Bravo!

Michael (MV)

https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-michael-virga-4/ ^^ Actually I wrote and submitted this about a week before I watched the movie, by chance, on the 13th. In fact, pre-film, during the film, and post-film, I had forgotten I had submitted it, until it appeared the morning-after as the micro-poem feat...

Hi Bob, Imagine how much more amused- à la SNL - if the reader becomes aware that Topper is a toupée from the text. Workshop consider making it: A Toast to Topper Yes, the running dog simile - a SNL skit image Likewise with the funny finale (with a workshop suggestion) If ever I’m a klutz on my firs...

Thanks, Bob, for accepting.

Your canine poem and my cologne poem were forwarded.

In that transmittal, I also inquired again about the status of the monthly IBPC.


Good luck (Bonne chance) in the finals, if they be

And Good luck to the WB,


Michael (MV) days &

Currently, Wild Poetry Forum is still nominating and submitting.

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

30 Jul 2023, 21:59

Do you know if any other forums are still submitting?

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...

Although I'm observing less visits here by frequent flyers, and less interest & enthusiasm due to an unresponsive IBPC administration, I propose we continue the process & procedure, to stay the monthly track. If in the event The IBPC administration decides to up-to-date, then the Writer's Block will...

Hi Bob, Take a read of this with the 1st stanza as the 3rd. 8) Michael (MV) Anne Shakespeare    Will, Anne cannot understand    why you are not home    for a second summer in a row.    Since she cannot write she insists I do.    I am only writing what she says.    One does not blame      a weather v...

Bob, This was a good poem to read today, or any day. Reminds me of a stray dog that came into my life my senior year of college. If I died before that dog, that dog was sure to follow too, dying of grief. I have heard it said that in Heaven - the Haven of the Humane - our pets will be with us. Why n...

  We Two After detailing my body à la spa the Spirit of Shower moves me to anoint my flesh with Chanel Bleu I embrace the essence and henceforth Gabrielle commences uncontained déjà vu - the sensorium of concert-going days that I believed would never cease permeates the membrane of aging A close ato...

Actually, that would be a nomination for the August IBPC - and Siva, and Bob, I am making a note of it here on the 12th of July. Siva, please also remember to voice your nomination of this poem by Bob in the August IBPC thread, which I will start over ar Palaver around the 28th of July. Thanks, Mich...

Bob,

If you're not representing elsewhere,
would you please represent the Writer's Block with one of your poems you have posted here during June.

Thanks, Bob

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Bob, for voicing. My concern is: Siva mentioned that this poem was submitted. So, hopefully, ASAP, Siva will let us know if this is still an unpublished & available poem. Even if it isn't yet published but has been accepted & slated, projected to be published, then because it has been picked...

I have been checking in, and reading. But I haven't had time or energy for my usual workshopping share. So, I haven't been posting my new drafts. But I am conserving time & energy to manage the selection and channeling of our entries to the monthly IBPC. Here is the link to the thread at Palaver for...

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...

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...