Quoted in the Grove:
After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
~Wallace Stevens
I believe there’s a God — I believe the whole bag of tricks; there’s nothing I don’t believe; they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen parts and I’d believe.
~Graham Greene
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know.
~Mark Twain
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Posted from the Grove:
Prewritten for Thurs (01/10) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is:
any limerick (a,a,b,b,a), non-humorous
The Contest:
Life can be low farce and the show a pointless tragedy if one is base enough to see it that way. But to enjoy this show thru all its mazes, emotions and layered dimensions, and to take pleasure in the interweaving of its players, this is a gift. Your challenge: Distill the humor, render this drama in your most personal way so that it becomes the gift of yourself as a writer, the present of yourself to Wordgrove’s cast of readers who wait
Unsurprisingly, a noticeable cloud of dismay rose from interested Authors concerning the too-broad-to-be-useful theme of Drama for this year’s contest. Too much freedom overwhelms. Perhaps it will be helpful instead to think of it less as a theme, and more as a challenge to reach for vivid expression
There is, as example, a different dynamic in the ceremonies of early love and that of a final break-up. It is easy to use moonlight and tears for these stages, when in fact it is the difference between rumpled sheets and shattered glass, from pillow talk and morning coffee to shards of life and smithereens. With palpable images, to the vigilant writer everything embeds in Drama
Rubbing new words and connections together can generate the friction and electricity that’s useful in transmitting Drama. Scratch around in the soils of memory and imagination until you find the seed you like, and there’s the kernal of your poem or story. Use words to create pictures. Weed out the unnecessary. Write from wonder. Be vivid. There’s your Drama
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@Writers Platform
The Glass Table:
~Piffin: Christmas Limerick
Kris Claus and the missus on the issue of tracking soot and the use of doors
~BarTalk: The Word for Perfect
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Prewritten: Alaska, rope
~Piffin: .Resolute.
With the fate of New Year resolutions ever in doubt, a bucket list of items destined to be filed, Incomplete: never achieved; resignation, and the letting go of dreams
~BarTalk: The Dancer
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Impromptu: trust, danger
~Piffin: Drop (a work in progress)
Urban anonymity, where the bite of bullets grinding thru flesh shares street cred with love bites; where exploding rain drops might be red drops draining given a different night
~whitefeather: Rain / Rust
It’s the corrosion of tears not rain that seals the Tinman’s chest with rust
~Stejovis: untitled
Unrhymed couplets in a litany of sage advice, garnished with a statement of faith
~BarTalk: wounded
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Writers in Residence:
~Mary Christmas @Faith Re-Tree-it: Stressed Quest / Quest for Peace
At WG’s west end, Station #9 of tandem quests to help with the residue of stress, leftovers from the holidays
~Greenie @I like the rain: A Dream You Dream
Do avatars dream beyond pixels, or evanesce into random electrons; is there love beyond the monitor, outside the world of login and logout?
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