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Posted on: Mar 1 18, 05:19 |
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QUOTE (Larry @ Feb 28 18, 05:45 ) Happy Tuesday to you too Bev. Thought Daniel and I were the only two ghosts still inhabiting MM. Daylight Savings for us starts on March 11 where we get to spring forward about 9 days before Spring.
Larry Haaahahah. No, I visit from time to time... Lately been painting but, aiming to paint and incorporate poetry...I'm sure it will happen at some stage. Bev |
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Posted on: Feb 27 18, 01:44 |
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QUOTE (Cleo_Serapis @ Mar 16 16, 23:26 ) Hi all. For those of you who observe Daylight Savings Time, I've just changed the board default to GMT - 4, for the DST setting. To adjust the board time (if the time is not correct once you've logged in), please go into your control panel and then into: Options > Board Settings If the time is not correct when you log in, please make sure you CHECK the: DST Correction: Auto correct DST? Otherwise, if you uncheck it, you will see a second option underneath: Is daylight saving time in effect? UNCHECK this one (for those states that do not observe Daylight Savings). (If you have selected the correct time zone and the clock appears an hour out, check or uncheck box to sui Cheers ~Cleo Happy Tuesday! xxx |
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Posted on: Feb 19 16, 01:08 |
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Morning Syl, I know Joost, a very sad situation, indeed. Very sad re your son. (I did not realise.)
I am trying to get my head in the poetry groove. I think I know, what and how I used to write. I must get back into that habit...I used to make short notes all the time. Hand written ones. Observations etc. It always translated into a poem or a story or a drawing or painting.
Hope you have a good weekend. We may do a short trip to Durban, one and a half hours away, we will stay with a friend, go to movies or a show, do some shopping, have dinner and come back on Sunday...we live in sleepy hollow here. But, very happy with it!
I'm reading a lovely book, LILLA'S FEAST, Francis Osborne. You may be interested in it. (Its a true story.)
Hugs, Bev x
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Forum: Mosaic Musings Holiday Classic
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Posted on: Apr 21 15, 12:37 |
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Hello All~
I miss my MM times. Funny thing is, I made time for poetry, and MM, when I was most busy. Now, I have the time but, the emotion or muse is not there. Strange, but often one writes when in a particular frame of mind.
Syl, I am so sorry to hear your news. Why did you not share with all of us sooner? We may be poetry or pen pals but still can offer a lot of support and care.
I am hoping to get on poetry track again. Only tonight, my husband remarked that in 2014 & 2015, no poetry was/has been written. I have been taking pics though and commission pics, so I have been creative and having fun.
Take care all of you.
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Posted on: Oct 14 13, 08:00 |
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QUOTE (JustDaniel @ Oct 5 13, 15:33 ) Greetings, Folks! Had un unexpected operation on my right knee. Discovered it had a major infection, and it had to be 'unzipped' for the third time, and they're attempting to save the artificial joint with IV antibiotics every four hours for six weeks! The IV takes about an hour each time. I'd gone into Atrial fibrillation with extremely high heart rate -- all of which I was totally unaware! The second day after they cleaned out the knee, the a-fib disappeared. Difficult to write just now as the machine making my knee go up and down kind of makes it difficult to be using a laptop. Will attempt to be visiting later today if possible. Just wanted you to know I'd not abandoned ship! Love, Daniel Oh no Daniel, get well soon. At least a knee does not really stop one writing...Get well and good luck. Keep us informed of your progress. Bev |
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Forum: Member Announcements -> Basilica
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Posted on: Sep 16 13, 02:47 |
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QUOTE (Cleo_Serapis @ Sep 15 13, 22:09 ) Much Congratulations to Wally!! This poem has just placed third for the August IBPC. Here are judge Robert Sward's comments about it: QUOTE Third prize goes to author of "Flash in the Pan" with its effective use of rhyming couplets (and four-line stanzas) to describe a night-time artillery battle with mortar shells, hand-launched parachute flares (also known as "thousand-foot flare") and Katyusha, AKA "Stalin's Organ."
"Flash in the Pan" is an "action poem" that opens with a frightening exchange of fire, "a bump in the night? / Is that the start of an Eighty-one's flight? / Payload of chaos to no one knows where..."
A scene experienced from a distance before the camera, so to speak, zooms in close on a soldier, a single individual, at least as I read it, "Tiny hot flash of a rifle well-aimed / could modestly signal 'Your life has been claimed.'"
Hats of to a poet who can write about war (possibly in Afghanistan?) and doing so in rhyming iambic pentameter lines, i.e., ten-syllables to the line, two rhyming couplets to each stanza. There's a slight sing-songy quality that actually works for the poem, momentarily lulling the reader into a relative quiet, a dangerous quiet which, moments later, will be shattered by "shrieks overhead like a flaming banshee..."
Ambitious, a poem suggestive of a war veteran author, a poet with battle scars, and I like, too, the appropriate references to "Job" and "Icarus" which, in this context, feel right, that is, they seem to me "earned" and function as something more than decorative elements.
--Robert Sward http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/flash-in-the-panI KNEW this one deserved a larger audience. It's potent and worth the moving read. YAY for Wally! Congratulations and Well done Wally! you are amazing. You must be very proud! We are all very proud of you! Hugs. Bev |
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Forum: IBPC Monthly Nominations and Results
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Posted on: Sep 13 13, 07:29 |
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This is a beautiful poem. You are still writing such incredible words. A pleasure to read. Bev QUOTE (Eisa @ Sep 4 13, 23:18 ) Lady of Stone
Who fashioned you, elegantly poised where bumbles and admirals flit? Beneath the willow arch, entwined with honeysuckle scent.
Moonlight spills through the window; a studio, replete with scattered chisels and unhewn stone. His murmurs blend with magnolia rustling in summer's breath. Does he sculpt your tousled waves, caress cool lips into a smile, drape the curve of your breasts?
Are you yesterday's love, ablaze like beds of scarlet roses, now dampened with the melancholy of autumn's tears? Or are you the nightly phantom that lured him into Morpheus's realm scorching your image into his memory? |
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