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  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each autho...

 
On Monday evening November 9th, I forwarded these 3 to represent the Writer's Block in the November IBPC 2015:


Siva's The Car Ride

Frank's Urban Crows

and Michael's   a broem for a broet's birth & breath beyond breadth


Good Luck to us all every one



Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

the priceless rolls forth the stone tumbles and the tomb turns to cenotaph   (rollback prices are for Walmart life is not precious Life is priceless) Hi Billy, The title is pedestrian(sad echo of "where have all the flowers gone" & "blowin' in the wind") - but then "foot soldiers" might make for a w...

  Thanks, Billy, for your dedication to the workshop through the years, and Thanks, too, for the lights of honors your poetry shines on The Writer's Block. IBPC Poems of the Year: May 2014 - April 2015 http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6148 (and here at the advent of Thanksg...

 
IBPC Poems of the Year: May 2014 - April 2015 - selected by Anne Marie Macari

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty-may-2014-apr-2015


Congrats to Billy

and The Writer's Block




Michael (MV)

 
 
 
  
 
  
 

  "an epitaph for a cenotaph" The heart of gold is purple priceless not earthbound and unknown by any tomb as abandoned as a mummy's vault grief has deserted the grave for good and with joy veterans of the heart have joined the soul for un uni-formed murmurs without a cause original: The heart of go...

  Thanks, Billy, for the update. Good Luck in the finals. and thanks, Billy, for your recommendation of Siva's poem. Waiting for a response from Siva in this thread. :) Michael (MV) I nominate Siva's Car Ride, hoping she might consider my suggestions for punctuation and one or two word changes I mad...

  Thanks, Frank, and now if you will please ASAP: 1/ Your current statement - "It does not represent any other board" - refers to Urban Crows specifically. Please post a more general statement that you don't have any poem representing any other board. 2/ for the epigraph, quotation marks - "The swan...

 
Thanks, Siva

and what about Frank's Urban Crows

we're approaching the deadline

Thanks     Michael (MV)

SivaRamanathan wrote:Michael
I second Billy's nomination of your poem,'Imagine'
I have not yet read Billy's poem.Will come back later.
Siva

 
 
 
 
 
  


 
 

 
is that a typo?    is "geigers" supposed to be "geysers"?


planet of the crows

planet crow




Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 

  Hi Frank, Surfaced this a read appropriate for these 3 strange days Oct. 31st - Nov. 2nd. and to complement, here's an article with media: http://io9.com/5969515/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-humans esp like the exit - like a one-liner haiku: "Swans sing when crows grow weary of their caws." To...

 
Thanks Billy for the recommendation.


Billy, I recommend your poem cloudy day i sing under my breath a song i makeup


Perhaps Frank might represent with one of his?

 
Thanks,

Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
 

  Hi Billy, recursive - this world - " mise en abîme" the Lord's kingdom is not of this world Billy, If you don't already have a poem committed to representing another board this November IBPC, would you please allow cloudy day i sing under my breath a song i makeup to represent the Writer's Block? ...

  Please recommend & comment, etc. in the thread Upcoming November IBPC 2015: @ Palaver  http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6136 and Happy Halloween weekend Oct. 31st - Nov. 2nd I share with you this link to a poem "mummies" with audio: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/mummies-by...

  Hi Billy, on the same sustaining wave-length as these quotes, is the broem I currently posted: http://www.the-writers-block.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6129 I invite you to read & hope that you will comment. With the upcoming IBPC, might it be one to represent the Writer's Block? Thanks, Michael...

  Hi SarahSConnell, i share this quote: “In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”   ―Igor Stravinsky 8) Michael (MV) Why so many legends poets and writers said that its necessary to fall in love before going to be a great poet or writer? is love ins...

  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each autho...

 
Poems & commentary by C. Wade Bentley:

http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2015/09


Congrats to our fellow IBPC poets & boards,

Michael (MV) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  like each of us, only John Lennon was born to be John Lennon . . . and still making signs of peace on the planet & in the press: http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2015/10/09/Fans-worldwide-commemorate-John-Lennons-75th-birthday/1391444400085/   "The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-...

  Thanks bernie for representing needed yet: bernie, Please post ASAP the poem in this thread as you would like it forwarded. Thanks Michael (MV) Michael--- i would love to represent our Forum in the current IBPC. Bernard Henrie mojave216bernard@aol.com The poem is my original work and unpublished a...

  1/ Thanks Billy, for representing the Block and Thanks for providing all the needed info Good Luck in the finals, Billy 2/ Bernie, Please post the poem in this thread as you would like it forwarded. Thanks Waiting to hear from bernie 3/ for a 3rd, how about my broem: "care giving-son-king" 8) Mich...

  Hi Billy, and Hi Bernie: If you don't already have a poem committed to representing another board this October IBPC, then Billy, would you please allow at the back of our minds to represent the Writer's Block? and Bernie would you please allow Bare Shoulders and Violin to represent the Writer's Bl...

  A creation of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep in view the Vision   -- variation on lines of John Keats The Lord is my breastplate sans hardware sans harness protecting the God-part in my chest God maintains a supernaturall...

  any newcomers or returnees this month, Welcome! and here is a home link to the IBPC rules: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/rules Poems recommended to represent the Block are posted here in this thread, along with all IBPC required info. When the 1-3 are decided upon, and permission granted by each autho...

  I fluoresce therefore I am   :) mojave, I like the synecdochic title also I like "tufts of buried vegetable tops" ^^ except maybe more precise depiction as the tufted tops of buried vegetables "creeps on the flaxen river." -- effective synesthesia - tactile texture to water and esp that canvas ima...