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Ieuan Published -AutumSkyPoetryDaily - In Love with Woman in her Later Years

#1 Post by FranktheFrank » 11 Sep 2017, 23:53

PUBLISHED POEMS AND COMPETITION PLACINGS
by Ieuan Ap Hywel

In Love With a Woman in her Later Years
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim color
Editor’s Note: This poem’s emphasis on reality makes the love that permeates the narrative all the more precious.

Christmas in Wales (1953)
Published by wiseowl.art January edition 2024
https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywel

Cycling Across t' Bridge
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st April 2022
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2022/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor’s Note: This pantoum sounds so beautiful in the mouth that it’s quite easy to miss
the wistful emotional thread that winds through the stanzas.

Died Last Fall
by Ieuan ap Hywel
IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2022
Honorable Mention
Judged by Terence Culleton

Cycling Across t' Bridge
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/11
Judge's comments:
A key to the sureness with which this poem realizes the musical
structure of the pantoum form is the fact that there is only one main verb in the entire piece.
The poet cycles a single remembered image through carefully crafted quatrains in such a way that,
with each return of any given detail of the scene, there is not just a recognition, but a re-realization.
The language is always fresh and musical, filled with assonantal and consonantal textures, and it’s often
surprisingly inventive, as in the second quatrain’s reference to “her boneshaker bike.” Every quatrain
of this poem resonates with both loss and recovery. The charged moment is fixed in the past but brought
back into the present again through the offices of the poetic imagination. The merging of past and present,
memory and desire, loss and recoupment is the exact remit of the lyric mode and the key to its hypnotic power.
I could read this one again and again—and will. --Terence Culleton


Time Portal at Fenchurch St. Station
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for August 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/08
Judge's comments:
Having lived in London for 20 years, I admit this poem struck me on a personal level, evoking another time in my, as well as the author's, life. Those moments in our past when everything that was or is verges on change. Well constructed and paced, it conjures the senses of sight and sound while steering clear of being overly emotional. --Bruce McRae

WAKEUP CALL
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 12 August 2021 - https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2021/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's comments:
"The uncertain punctuation, enjambment, and broken words contribute to an atmosphere of confusion in this poem, and it isn’t until the last two lines that the truth is understood."

RETIREMENT
Published by Haiku Universe’s Daily haiku and micro poem competition 20th July 2021 - https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-leuan-ap-hywel/

DAUNTED
2nd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2019
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2019/3
Judge's comments:
"Not an easy poem to read, the subject matter, the sordid details of death and attendant complications that twist grief into anger—the callous coroner, the missing ring, the unlikely doctor, the drive home, gripping the steering wheel in the driving rain. Then the final stanza redeems it all. It’s life, it’s in the past, it can be released. --Ruth Bavetta"

WAITING FOR A BUS AT ARMARNATH TEMPLE
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for April 2018
Representing The Writer’s Block -http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/waiting ... ath-temple
Judge's comments:
"A casual slice of Indian life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) as the poet lingers, sampling the street life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) waiting near the temple for a friend. --R.T. Castleberry

FROSTED GARDEN
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st September 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"Delicate imagery introduces two kinds of changing seasons in this poem (apt for the first day of September).

FROSTED GARDEN
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2017
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/frosted-garden
Judge's comments:
"An anomaly in American life and poetry--a sweetly gentle lyric of a married couple settling into the loving rituals of aging. --R.T. Castleberry"

DE AARDAPPELETERS (1885)
Published by Autumn Sky Daily Poetry 1st March 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"This ekphrastic poems carefully conveys not just the painted scene, but the intent behind the picture. Van Gogh’s fascination with this particular painting is nearly as fascinating as the work itself. Click here to see the painting."

THE POTATO EATERS (1885)
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s Monthly Competition for May 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"A finely-wrought ekphrastic poem that is also a telling commentary on Van Gogh’s evolution as an artist. The poem is wonderfully observant of what is in the painting and what is not. Precise observation evokes all the senses: the smell of lye, the bird that doesn’t sing because he doesn’t exist, the vapour rising from a bowl of aardappelen, the raffia woven chair seats, rough-spun clothes, the eight rafters, the missing Bible. --Joan Colby"

TROUSERED WOMEN
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"The brutality of a miner’s vanished way of life is carefully detailed. “Candle set in cap” “soaks in a zinc bath in front of a coal fire” “eating faggots with mash and peas” “Ieuan who thought all religion a sin” The scene is rivetingly real. --Joan Colby"

URBAN CROWS
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2015
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"This poem travels a great distance in its catalogue about city crows. It begins playfully describing them that ‘rock and loll’ in tree tops. Sweeping in vision, it moves through several landscapes in rhythms and images that capture their nonchalant takeover. The list of foods they eat is carefully chosen and described with verve creating a tension that leads to the growing irony and import as is the juxtaposition of kiddie’s playground to the apocalypse. The casual tone depicting the end of humanity at the end is chilling." --Barbara Siegel Carlson

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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#2 Post by Kenneth2816 » 14 Sep 2017, 08:47

Well..
You aren't boasting.

Congratulations

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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#3 Post by FranktheFrank » 14 Sep 2017, 10:42

Thanks

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#4 Post by Billy » 14 Sep 2017, 16:51

Congratulations

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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#5 Post by SivaVelliangiri » 19 Sep 2017, 20:32

Frank
Every time I read you,I smile. Pleasantly. Proud to be a fellow traveller.
Wishing you well and I have always been fascinated by your memory and narrative skill. I must learn from you.Both our poems are anecdotal--yours spread like a novel,mine is threadbare and just enough --sometime too wordy.
Congratulations!
Thank you
Siva

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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#6 Post by meenas17 » 19 Sep 2017, 21:44

Getting published is an achievement, Frank.
You deserve it.
Wishing you all the best.
Meena
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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#7 Post by Bernie01 » 20 Sep 2017, 22:04

Frank---

just seen this.

oh, it makes me so happy, so pleased with our coterie of pom writ-ers.

i especially like the organized way you list things, once again, very professional and just part of adult pom writing.

mucho congrats.

bernie

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Re: Ieuan - Published Again

#8 Post by FranktheFrank » 21 Sep 2017, 16:32

Thank you Bernie - Thank you all.

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Re: Ieuan - Published

#9 Post by FranktheFrank » 13 Aug 2021, 11:04

An update of my poetry
thanks to the platform and workshopping of: The-Writer's-Block.net
and all the people involved.
Many thanks
Ieuan
13 August 2021

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Re: Ieuan - Published

#10 Post by FranktheFrank » 01 Apr 2022, 17:02

Cycling Across t' Bridge
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st April 2022
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2022/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor’s Note: This pantoum sounds so beautiful in the mouth that it’s quite easy to miss
the wistful emotional thread that winds through the stanzas.

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Re: Ieuan - Published

#11 Post by BobBradshaw » 01 Apr 2022, 20:31

It's a lovely, fetching poem. The sounds in the poem are the best that I've read in a poem for quite awhile. Congrats!

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Re: Ieuan - Published

#12 Post by Michael (MV) » 02 Apr 2022, 03:26

Congrats, Frank,

A wonderful way to begin National Poetry Month.

Cheers 🍻

Michael (MV)

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Re: Ieuan - Published January 2024

#13 Post by FranktheFrank » 05 Jan 2024, 18:43

My poem Christmas in Wales (1953) has been published in wiseowl.art.

https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywel

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#14 Post by BobBradshaw » 06 Jan 2024, 22:33

Congratulations on your Christmas in Wales poem! It’s lush with beautiful writing.

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#15 Post by FranktheFrank » 07 Jan 2024, 00:30

Thanks, Bob, it's my first Zine publishing.
They added standard punctuation and a photo for me too. I'm quite impressed.
I will repost the poem here in February.

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#16 Post by FranktheFrank » 11 Jan 2024, 13:04

Scheduled for for publishing my poem, 'For Harmina In Love with a Woman in her Later Years'
in Front Page of Open Arts Forum.com
on the 24th April 2024

First workshopped here in writer's Block By Bernie

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#17 Post by BobBradshaw » 13 Jan 2024, 22:49

I just read your poem at OpenArts… 'For Harmina In Love with a Woman in her Later Years'. It is even more beautiful than I recalled. What a loving tribute… you are blessed, my friend.

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#18 Post by FranktheFrank » 15 Jan 2024, 00:04

Thanks, Bob.
N is more blessed, perhaps.

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Re: In Love With a Woman in her Later Years

#19 Post by FranktheFrank » 17 Jan 2024, 23:12

In Love With a Woman in her Later Years
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim color
Editor’s Note: This poem’s emphasis on reality makes the love that permeates the narrative all the more precious.

FranktheFrank
Posts: 1983
Joined: 02 Mar 2016, 18:07
Location: Between the mountains and the sea

Ieuan - Published March 2024 wiseowl.art

#20 Post by FranktheFrank » 02 Mar 2024, 12:34

https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywei
FranktheFrank wrote:
11 Sep 2017, 23:53
PUBLISHED POEMS AND COMPETITION PLACINGS
by Ieuan Ap Hywel

In Love With a Woman in her Later Years
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim color
Editor’s Note: This poem’s emphasis on reality makes the love that permeates the narrative all the more precious.

Christmas in Wales (1953)
Published by wiseowl.art January edition 2024
https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywel

Cycling Across t' Bridge
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st April 2022
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2022/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor’s Note: This pantoum sounds so beautiful in the mouth that it’s quite easy to miss
the wistful emotional thread that winds through the stanzas.

Died Last Fall
by Ieuan ap Hywel
IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2022
Honorable Mention
Judged by Terence Culleton

Cycling Across t' Bridge
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/11
Judge's comments:
A key to the sureness with which this poem realizes the musical
structure of the pantoum form is the fact that there is only one main verb in the entire piece.
The poet cycles a single remembered image through carefully crafted quatrains in such a way that,
with each return of any given detail of the scene, there is not just a recognition, but a re-realization.
The language is always fresh and musical, filled with assonantal and consonantal textures, and it’s often
surprisingly inventive, as in the second quatrain’s reference to “her boneshaker bike.” Every quatrain
of this poem resonates with both loss and recovery. The charged moment is fixed in the past but brought
back into the present again through the offices of the poetic imagination. The merging of past and present,
memory and desire, loss and recoupment is the exact remit of the lyric mode and the key to its hypnotic power.
I could read this one again and again—and will. --Terence Culleton


Time Portal at Fenchurch St. Station
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for August 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/08
Judge's comments:
Having lived in London for 20 years, I admit this poem struck me on a personal level, evoking another time in my, as well as the author's, life. Those moments in our past when everything that was or is verges on change. Well constructed and paced, it conjures the senses of sight and sound while steering clear of being overly emotional. --Bruce McRae

WAKEUP CALL
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 12 August 2021 - https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2021/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's comments:
"The uncertain punctuation, enjambment, and broken words contribute to an atmosphere of confusion in this poem, and it isn’t until the last two lines that the truth is understood."

RETIREMENT
Published by Haiku Universe’s Daily haiku and micro poem competition 20th July 2021 - https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-leuan-ap-hywel/

DAUNTED
2nd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2019
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2019/3
Judge's comments:
"Not an easy poem to read, the subject matter, the sordid details of death and attendant complications that twist grief into anger—the callous coroner, the missing ring, the unlikely doctor, the drive home, gripping the steering wheel in the driving rain. Then the final stanza redeems it all. It’s life, it’s in the past, it can be released. --Ruth Bavetta"

WAITING FOR A BUS AT ARMARNATH TEMPLE
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for April 2018
Representing The Writer’s Block -http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/waiting ... ath-temple
Judge's comments:
"A casual slice of Indian life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) as the poet lingers, sampling the street life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) waiting near the temple for a friend. --R.T. Castleberry

FROSTED GARDEN
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st September 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"Delicate imagery introduces two kinds of changing seasons in this poem (apt for the first day of September).

FROSTED GARDEN
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2017
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/frosted-garden
Judge's comments:
"An anomaly in American life and poetry--a sweetly gentle lyric of a married couple settling into the loving rituals of aging. --R.T. Castleberry"

DE AARDAPPELETERS (1885)
Published by Autumn Sky Daily Poetry 1st March 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"This ekphrastic poems carefully conveys not just the painted scene, but the intent behind the picture. Van Gogh’s fascination with this particular painting is nearly as fascinating as the work itself. Click here to see the painting."

THE POTATO EATERS (1885)
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s Monthly Competition for May 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"A finely-wrought ekphrastic poem that is also a telling commentary on Van Gogh’s evolution as an artist. The poem is wonderfully observant of what is in the painting and what is not. Precise observation evokes all the senses: the smell of lye, the bird that doesn’t sing because he doesn’t exist, the vapour rising from a bowl of aardappelen, the raffia woven chair seats, rough-spun clothes, the eight rafters, the missing Bible. --Joan Colby"

TROUSERED WOMEN
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"The brutality of a miner’s vanished way of life is carefully detailed. “Candle set in cap” “soaks in a zinc bath in front of a coal fire” “eating faggots with mash and peas” “Ieuan who thought all religion a sin” The scene is rivetingly real. --Joan Colby"

URBAN CROWS
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2015
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"This poem travels a great distance in its catalogue about city crows. It begins playfully describing them that ‘rock and loll’ in tree tops. Sweeping in vision, it moves through several landscapes in rhythms and images that capture their nonchalant takeover. The list of foods they eat is carefully chosen and described with verve creating a tension that leads to the growing irony and import as is the juxtaposition of kiddie’s playground to the apocalypse. The casual tone depicting the end of humanity at the end is chilling." --Barbara Siegel Carlson

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