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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 dynamic

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4/and unpublished work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 “Ire Ore Miner” and Billy’s “The Resting Place Of Arthur Rimbaud”.

I 2nd

Ieuan’s “Ire Ore Miner”

and Billy’s “The Resting Place Of Arthur Rimbaud”.


Thanks, Bob, for recommending these 2.

Also, Bob,

If you aren't already representing with a poem elsewhere,

would you please represent with one of yours?


Thanks, Bob,

Michael

BobBradshaw wrote: ↑

02 May 2023, 06:58

I nom Ieuan’s “Ire Ore Miner” and Billy’s “The Resting Place Of Arthur Rimbaud”.

Thanks, Michael, for the nod.
Bob Bradshaw
This poem is my original, and unpublished poem.
I am not representing another forum for this month.
Email: bobbybradshw@yahoo.com

Cave Canem

In Pompeii, on a wall
of the House of the Tragic Poet,
a mosaic greets the visitor:
Cave Canem. Beware of Dog.

Centuries later
the growling mongrel
though leased— and chained—
makes one want to leap

out of the way…

If I could hang one sign
on my front door it would be:
DO NOT DISTURB, a good sleep
essential to a poet.

Yet how long can I sleep knowing
Time’s ineffable rush,
which is clearer to me as a poet
than weather is to a meteorologist…

What is there to protect me
from the massing of Time’s
ash gray clouds over my roof?
What sign can I hang to keep Death
from ringing my doorbell?

Thanks for the nomination Bob.
And well done with Autumn Sky Daily Poetry.

This is an original poem of Ieuan ap Hywel
it has not been published and does not represent
any other board in the IBPC.
I

Edited today

Thanks Bob; Thanks Frank:

Good Luck in the finals.


I'll message Billy re his Rimbaud poem.


Michael (MV)