December IPBC Nominations, January 2008 Competition Options

[AMETHYST]

I would like to nomiate this for IBPC Competition because of it's light tone, yet heavy content - The dramatic voice is exemplary in excellence of the craft. I especially felt the capture of inner emotions and how so much detail is included into such a small verse. Excellent poem.

Time Piece by Frances Kennedy



Whoever said time heals all wounds has lied
like those who make the claim forgiveness brings
forgetting sooner. Sorrow, stripped of pride,
has little aptitude for hope that springs
eternally in hearts less slung by slings
and arrows, or with fortitude not mine.
Unreasoned passion, stemmed, stills everything
except the coiled impulse to unwind,
pretending on the face of it that I’m just fine.

MFK Buckley

This post has been edited by Cleo_Serapis: Dec 29 07, 18:12

Reason for edit: posted Final Revision

[MFK Buckley]

Are you the original author of this poem? Yes
Has this poem ever been published? No
Has this poem been nominated by any other participating board (of
IBPC)? No
Has this poem been reviewed as "best and final" to assure the latest
revision is judged? No, the final version is below.
Is your email address on file up to date? Yes
Do you accept the nomination to submit the work (if selected to
represent MM). Yes

Final version:

Time Piece

Whoever said time heals all wounds has lied
like those who make the claim forgiveness brings
forgetting sooner. Sorrow, stripped of pride,
has little aptitude for hope that springs
eternally in hearts less slung by slings
and arrows, or with fortitude not mine.
Unreasoned passion, stemmed, stills everything
except the coiled impulse to unwind,
pretending on the face of it that I’m just fine.

MFK Buckley

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Fran,

Thanks so much! What is the correct spelling of your name please?

~Cleo

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Fran,

With everyone busy with the holidays, this fine poem is the only nomination for the January IBPC comp for MM. Would you like me to send it along or hold it off for next month in hopes we'll receive more nominations?

Lori

[Cleo_Serapis]

OK - here's some interesting news: I'd been wondering why we hadn't received word of any winners from the NOVEMBER competition - I just received the following email from David Ayers at the IBPC:

Please note that there will be no "official" winners for the month of
November. We only received a handful of entries for the month. Because
of this and because the competition was already behind schedule due to
delays in the October judging, we decided to hold off sending new
entries for judging until we received the next group of poems (for the
December competition) which were then handled per our normal process.

This gets us back on schedule with the judging. Unfortunately, it
resulted in a gap in the monthly winners, and a small group of poems
that were never forwarded on for judging, but we felt that this was
really the best way to resolve the situation given the time constraints.

For those boards that DID submit entries for the November competition,
we apologize for the inconvenience. Perhaps those entries can be worked
back into the next few batches that you send for judging. We might even
be able to allow an extra 'make-up' poem for each of the next few
months--in other words, a fourth entry which would come from that
November group which got skipped. You would need to coordinate this with
Gina but I think it could be done without creating too much extra work
on her end or on the judge's end. As I mentioned, we really didn't
receive a lot of Nov. entries to begin with.


Best,
David Ayers
IBPC

Given this information, coupled with the ony ONE nomination for MM for the January comp, I'd like to go ahead and re-submit the three entried from Nov which are: So Long Summer by Merlin, Going Home by heartsong7 and Peace by Larry along with the official Jan Nom: Time Piece by Frances Kennedy. I understand that Sue has requested not to include her works for the IBPC competitions going forward, so I'll send all the poets a PM now.

Cheers
~Cleo

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hmmm - now I've just received another email from David Ayers at IBPC with regard to the NOV comp:

Please disregard the previous announcement about the November entries. Based on feedback we received from some of the boards, we're going to go ahead and send them on to the current judge (whose term is about to expire) for judging as a single group. This make-up competition will run concurrent with the regular January competition, which will be judged by Fleda Brown. Depending on turnaround time we may be able to announce the November results first (hopefully).

Thanks,
David Ayers