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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4/and unpublished work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)

I nom Ieuan’s Cogan’s Hit

If available for this month, I nominate Michael's "Video of Michael Approaching 65".

Many thanks Bob,
1. I've nominated your: 'Father's Death'

2. Siva's: 'Without Rhyme or Reason'

I second Fathers Death
I second Rhyme Nor Reason

I second Video of Michael

Sorry, I did not see this thread. I submitted ,Without Rhyme or Reason,' elsewhere
Thank you all for the nom.
Siva

Thanks, Ieuan, Ken for the nom.
Bob Bradshaw
email: bobbybradshw@yahoo.com
This is my original poem, and it is not representing any other forum.

My Father's Death

Daddy, you lay on a bed, eyes closed.
You had made comebacks before--
a half dozen heart attacks...

Could you hear us?
You were an anchor
dropped in deep waters.

Jean was telling you how much
she loved you.
My turn was next.

I wanted to tell you about a diving trip
I had made years ago. You'll understand
why it's only coming up now.

It was to the South Pacific
to see a WWII convoy ship,
perhaps like one you'd sailed on.

I was stupid, going it alone.
noticing too late
the gathering hammerheads.

It makes an enviable story now,
but not then...
Anyway, one thought kept coming up

that afternoon as the hammerheads
massed larger and larger
overhead--

what I'd always meant to say to you,
an odd thing to think about
with sharks beneath my boat.

Daddy, as Jean stroked your hair
I found the right words
for my gratitude,

but timing isn’t my forte.
You were no longer lost
in a fog of morphine.

Your jaw hung open.
Daddy, one day it will be me
lying in a bed like yours...

dependent on luck
or strangers saving me,
vulnerable

as a diver without an exit strategy,
hammerheads refusing
to disperse, his oxygen low...

Only my son will linger
over the wreck of my body,
trying to come up with the right words…

I have already forgiven him
the way I pray you forgive me.

Is Billy available this month?

Billy’s representing another forum.

I see.

Why don’t you post your poem?

This is my original and unpublished poem
It is not representing any other board
My e-mail: Ieuanaphywel@aol.com
ieuan ap Hywel.

Cogan's Hit

Ekphrastic Found in the Neo-noir crime film: 'Killing them Softly' (2012)
Movie score: 'Love Letters' by Ketty Lester (1962)

Thanks, Siva, for the update.

Best Regards with your plans for your poem,

Michael (MV)

RamanathanSiva wrote: ↑

03 Sep 2022, 04:24

Sorry, I did not see this thread. I submitted ,Without Rhyme or Reason,' elsewhere
Thank you all for the nom.
Siva

Thanks, Bob, for the update re Billy representing another forum,

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

03 Sep 2022, 21:39

Billy’s representing another forum.

Michael, is your poem available?

Actually, Billy made a mention of
Cohan’s Hit by Frank:

https://www.the-writers-block.net/forum ... 194#p39477

Michael (MV)

That makes only 2 noms, mine & Ieuan’s. Yours can be the 3rd….

Yes, sure,
best to send three. I nominate Michael's poem.

Video-Portrait of Michael approaching 65

Agreed

Bob's My Father's Death

Frank's Cohan’s Hit

and video-portrait of a poet, approaching 65

^^ These 3 are being forwarded to the September IBPC finals -


Good Luck to us 3

and the Writer's Block

Michael (MV)

Thanks, Michael

Yes, thanks Michael.

Keep going, there are more years after 65.

Good luck to all those who have submitted.
My poem came back.
Siva