Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

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Michael (MV)
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Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 30 Dec 2021, 11:02

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 environment

Which 1-3 would we like to see represent the Writer's Block in the finals?

After the 3 are selected, then will each author post - in this thread - the poem as the poet would like it forwarded,

and ALL the needed info/statements

Ideally, the only poems that really need to appear here are the final 3, when announced, hopefully by the 1st of the month, if not sooner

^^ the intent is organizational - if poems appear here before the selection of the final 3, then there is a congestion -

Until the final 3 are announced, please maintain poems & workshopping to the Workshop Forum. Thanks.



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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


In this thread, from the poems posted in the workshop forum during the course of the month, recommend/nominate by title & author.

Nominated poets, please acknowledge the nomination here in this thread.
Please reply by accepting or declining the nomination - in this thread.

Please note & observe: This is not a workshopping thread.

In this thread, poems that are ultimately selected to represent the Block are then posted here
as the author would like for the poem to be forwarded
along with all IBPC required info.

When the 1-3 poems are decided upon, and permission granted by each author of the selected poems,

along with all the info needed by each author:


1/Your name

2/e-mail address

3/statement that the poem is your original

4/and unpublished work

5/and that you don't have a poem committed to represent another board in the current IBPC. One poet one poem one board
for each monthly,

6/and the poem as you would like it forwarded to the finals.

^^ All of the above is the usual needed info as part of the process.


I will then forward the 1-3 to the IBPC finals.


Thanks

Michael (MV)

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 31 Dec 2021, 04:35

I nominate Billy’s “my father” and Michael’s “an occasional poem”.

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#3 Post by Michael (MV) » 01 Jan 2022, 00:24

Hi Bob,

Thanks for voicing recommendations.

1/ Billy's poem "my father" represented last month; those results are not in yet.

2/ Bob, are you available to represent for the Writer's Block in this current IBPC?

3/ Thank you for the nom-nod.
I accept the nomination
and hope to represent the Writer's Block,

4/ And hopefully there will be more voicing by other workshoppers.


Happy New Year 🎩 🍾 🎆

😎

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
31 Dec 2021, 04:35
I nominate Billy’s “my father” and Michael’s “an occasional poem”.

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#4 Post by BobBradshaw » 01 Jan 2022, 05:30

Yep, I am available. Thx

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#5 Post by BobBradshaw » 01 Jan 2022, 05:35

Then I nominate Billy’s “Swiftly Now”.

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#6 Post by Billy » 01 Jan 2022, 05:47

I’ll be representing another board. They just asked today and it’s a poem I like better. Thanks much, though.

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#7 Post by Michael (MV) » 01 Jan 2022, 06:18

1/
I came here at this time to recommend Billy's poem "Swiftly Now"; and I find Bob's has already recommend Billy's poem, and Billy has replied he has already committed to another board for this time.

2/ Thanks, Bob for your reply:

"Yep, I am available. Thx"

Now to narrow down to which one of your poems, Bob

😎

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#8 Post by BobBradshaw » 04 Jan 2022, 02:54

Choose anyone you like, Michael. I have no strong favorites. Bob

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#9 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Jan 2022, 10:24

Thanks, Bob.

How about Training to be a Star

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
04 Jan 2022, 02:54
Choose anyone you like, Michael. I have no strong favorites. Bob

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Update 1/4 re January IBPC 2022:

#10 Post by Michael (MV) » 04 Jan 2022, 10:33

1/
I'm nominating Ken's

Not a Silent Night


2/
Last call for nominating & 2nding


Thanks,

Michael (MV)

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#11 Post by BobBradshaw » 04 Jan 2022, 23:57

Thanks, Michael. Sounds good.
Bob Bradshaw
bobbybradshw@yahoo.com
This is my original and unpublished poem.
I am not representing another forum this month.

Training to Be a Star

our husky was always sticking her nose
down a hole, as if it was a top hat
turned upside down, hoping to emerge

with a rabbit, an amateur magician
who time after time revealed
a tunnel as an empty sleeve.

Still Amanda never gave up, moving
from hole to hole the way
a performer goes from one

audition to another,
never giving up on a chance
at her big moment.

Today a wild fluttering clapped the air
like a duck flushed out of its reeds…
Amanda staring back happily at us

as if awaiting our reaction,
a live pigeon in her mouth.
No! No! We shouted.

She tilted her head, puzzled
that we stood--shouting
Let go! Let go!

Gently her jaw opened
and in a spluttering
the pigeon burst into the air.

We rushed to embrace her,
throwing our arms around her neck,
stroking her chin.

She gazed up into our eyes,
her light brown eyes moist,
as if she stood at a stage’s footlights,

"Encore! Encore!" drifting
down from the balconies
like a blizzard of feathers.

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Re: Upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#12 Post by Kenneth2816 » 05 Jan 2022, 03:13

Not A Silent Night

The mingled smells
Of dung and damp straw
Almost made her retch.

She was exhausted
From the trip and
Her back hurt bad.

It was all she could
Manage to brace the
Child as he suckled.

All night long, the
Clamor of men-
Goat herders, soothsayers,

Their strange accents
The obscene packages.
By the cold light

Of the star that has
Stalked her a fortnight,
She calls for a little wine

To take off the edge
Of her immodesty,
The inglorious spectacle.

ashworthken@yahoo.com
Original unpublished
Not representing another forum

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Update 1/5 re upcoming January IBPC 2022:

#13 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 Jan 2022, 15:56

Thanks, Kenneth; Thanks, Bob:

For allowing your poems to represent, and for providing the needed information.

Good Luck in the finals.

The Peanuts ensemble will serve as our 3rd.

Good Luck to the Writer's Block.

I hope 2022 is going well for us All every one

😎

Michael (MV)

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