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> IBPC WINNING POEMS in 2007, Congratulations!
Psyche
post Jan 23 08, 10:09
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From: Bariloche, Argentine Patagonia
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Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
Writer of: Poetry & Prose
Referred By:David Ting



Yipee, Eric!!!! Congrats for your SECOND PLACE!!! I'd read Northland Solstice before, but now it took me ages to find where it was posted...sorry!!!

MM is going up in the ratings thanks to poets like you, and several others whom I believe have joined more recently.

Cheers, Sylvia ***


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The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.


"There is no life higher than the grasstops
Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction."

Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights.



Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!

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Psyche
post Jan 23 08, 10:15
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Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
Writer of: Poetry & Prose
Referred By:David Ting



Congrats, Lindi, for your Honorable Mention for Time gone Cold!!! Love it! And a Swap Quatrain, too!!
You're making Lori's form go global. Fantastic... rollerskater.gif

Hugs, Sylvia *** butterfly.gif


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The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.


"There is no life higher than the grasstops
Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction."

Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights.



Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!

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Aphrodite
post Jan 25 08, 08:12
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Hi Sylvia,

Thank you so much for the warm wishes! I am so glad that our creator of the Swap Quatrain, Ms. Lori, told me about the Chapbook compilation as I need a bit of a push, these days.
Lori's Swap Quatrain is a fun style of writing and I enjoy the challenge! PartyFavor.gif

Have a great weekend!

Lindi


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Cleo_Serapis
post Mar 8 08, 07:38
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Real Name: Lori Kanter
Writer of: Poetry & Prose
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The long awaited November results are now in - no HM's this month...

Winning Poems for November 2007
Judge E. Ethelbert Miller




FIRST PLACE
First Born

by Ellen Kombiyil
Blueline



(after Jean Valentine)

How deep your sea movements inside
Fisting open and open, my child,
My twin heart, covered in lanugo,
Fish-tailed, transparent, my loveliest
Memory-stain; I waited for
Your somersaults in the shower,
Or was that my own tilting,
I touched my breasts -- how tender!
And imagined you curled in the dark,
My hardening, smooth belly, both of us
Ripening; dreams mere shapes,
And you the center Rorschach blot,
Dreams of my future, dreams of my past,
Or were they yours, all blotted,
And no one to tell me how to pass the time,
The Jewish ladies at the Y shouting, mach shnel,
Already!
gone, gone, all excuses,
Your weight pressing on me, you
Filling out, carving the air,
Me, emptying, blood-marked,
Your tidal song seared down and scored,
How deep your fisting; your ink,
How dark! as we began.


Was I once covered in lanugo? This poem is celebratory and wonderful. If you're a man you might want to exchange your body for one that is female. Here the beginning of birth is documented in words. I like how culture and community tiptoes into this poem. I can see and hear the Jewish women--oh, how wise they are. --E. Ethelbert Miller


SECOND PLACE
Bird Painter

by Guy Kettelhack
About Poetry



I didn't use to like the ones with birds in them --
she'd paint alluring skies and water -- minerally
brimming glints -- then seem to feel she had
to punctuate their ambiguity with some expected

order -- carefully assorted gulls: culled illustrations
out of greeting cards -- obligatory birdies dotting
gleaming shards of sky and sea to add cliché
to the topography: some expected notion of what

ought to be above, beyond, around an ocean:
turned the beach from vague-and-haunting-lone
to Jones. But I was an elitist prig. Now I look at
each meticulously painted sprig of wing and breast

and tail and beak: and almost hear my mother
speak: each fine careful flying thing belies her
death: bears witness to what's left -- lifts the gulls
and deftly keeps them up: her artist's breath.


The voice in this poem had an artist for a mother. Memories survive death. How often do we overlook the work, the creativity of one's parents. Why are we so critical of their lives? If we could see with their eyes, we would understand the beauty of birds. We would discover our own wings. --E. Ethelbert Miller


THIRD PLACE
The Gravity of it Beautiful

by Melanie G. Firth
Wild Poetry Forum



Silence

the length
of your sleeve. Pause ripens
everywhere. Silence,
as in 'dead silence',

is a lie.
Under your collar
is a heart-to-heart, think
conversations
of the skin, the only talk whispered

just there. And then stifled,
choked, the lover's spit razed
to leave you unloved.
I can almost taste. that.

clambering. pause. as it hastens
to shout in palms
you now hide.
moist (the gravity of it...)

escapes this new design.
Flung loose like an epitaph
alight in trees, speaks '...


I was pulled into this poem by its title and first line. The punctuation kept stopping me in unexpected places. Nothing wrong with that. By the third stanza I was a sucker for love. --E. Ethelbert Miller


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Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind.

"I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter

Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!

"Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.

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