Mother Eating a Bosc Pear -- Revised (CTG)
Latest version --Mother Eating a Bosc Pear The pear's line clean as a Greek sphinx at Capri,as she prepares to cut into it in her Baltimoreefficiency apartment near the Washington Monument.Now her...
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couldn't find my copy of that IBPC Bosc Pear....i thought then there were just too many odd distractions.you recall that Sarah Sloat wanted the poem that mentions Armistice Day to include the pear's...
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Hi Bernie and Osal (again) My prior recognized Bosc pear poem recognized in IBPC in December 2012, "Eating a Bosc Pear on Armistice Day," is here (IBPC's own site on Webdelsol appears to be down at...
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I recall that Sarah was a bit taken aback at first, that the pear displayed the soldier's body's damage. That pear did a lot. You, Bernie, numbered a list of all it linked or embodied. I looked up the...
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Chris, Very specific images, some of which I can't visualize exactly. Is there enough poem here? It seems to find its way out rather quickly. I just wonder if the italicized--and quoted--last line is...
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even funnier osal: looking at the first place from that month......ha-ha
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I love going back...the imagery in the Armistice poem seems complete and builds on itself, human feeling cannot be avoided and is imagined with force and clarity. Abu is Daniel Abelman....(a likely...
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Hi Chris, I like the simplicity of the idea, nothing wrong with eating a pear. "pear's lines" was a tongue twister for me. How about- The pear's silhouette clean as a Greek sphinx at Capri, its...
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Chris---your Elgin Marble poem I liked, despite interruptions and what i called lack of focus; rereading the poem, i am less certain of my original comment.and here, the movie the poem brought to...
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Abujabri- I don't know what the tone of your comment is. I knew Chris had won, was pleased for him, had liked the poem quite a lot, and was just pleasantly surprised to read my own poem again, in the...
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What about "the pear's line"- that would be daring, like a contour drawing, uninterrupted, but for that knife that divides it into bites of delight,.. that would tie together the idea of a sphinx at...
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Thanks, Dale, Alison, abujabri, and Bernie. Revision is up... Alison I appreciate the tip to make it "the pear's line." All the best Chris
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Chris---i like the revised poem.The pear's lines clean as a Greek sphinx at Capri,but i don't follow the reference to a Christie auction. or the introduction of George Washington's face. bernie
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Hi BernieIn fact this is meant to be a Bernie Henrie-esque poem bringing in a number of disparate but colorful references. You should be flattered.All the bestChris
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Chris---cinematic. a bernie poem. Rain Taxi by Bernard HenrieFirst Place, November 2012 Judged by Polina BarskovaRain follows my taxi from Manchester Piccadilly to Didsbury. My mother will be buried...
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Bernie, that's the umpteenth time you've posted that rain taxi poem! Chris, that'll teach you. i think the poem is very good. you do the disparate well. "as she prepares to cut into it" so full of the...
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Thanks again, Bernie and Osal. Bernie, I was in West Didsbury in October, where my wife Donna and I visited a school friend that I had not seen for forty years. We had caught up with each other though...
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Chris---meant to add, the Rain Taxi poem was published by the magazine at Cambridge---fragments have legs. Vivid but related details are important to me and can be recognized with other forms of...
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Chris---just saw your last note. travel, catching up with old friends, means the world to me. I discussed my attempt to visit both Cambridge and a wonderful poet. Alas, the liver went crazy and i...
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Latest version -- Mother Eating a Bosc Pear fragmented images, according to the gospel of Bernie, work best when the mood of each image is clearly established: rain like a sign of permanent defeat...
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Hello Bernie I really didn't mean to advance this one to the top of the queue. I was just improving the link for the Bosc pear World War I poem, but as always I am glad to receive your input and your...
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