Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~Albert Einstein

What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. ~Richard Feynman

Have patience with everything in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Posted from the Grove:

Prewritten for Thurs (01/24) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is: Tell a story in the form of a prayer

Wordgrove is especially pleased to welcome returning members: Furlormyn and sot, as well as new members: Iamfaisal and HappyLove123

This week’s Post & Review will run longer than that allowed by club mail so that those wanting to view this week’s full newsletter, including Impromptu reviews, are directed to our online edition. New members wishing to catch up on news of our writing contest, or have an interest in past quotes and reviews, are also encouraged to visit our online edition at: http:wordgrovepost.wordpress.com

The Contest:
The closing line on last week’s news for the contest was as follows: ‘When partitions and virtual drives are mastered for the new computer, all will be well’

Ach, the bitter taste of presumption in this editor’s mouth. Drives and programs were installed, uninstalled, reinstalled. Pleas for help went out to Thumdar.com, and replies came back. Mountains of help were provided by Greenie, yet the computer competence of this editor continues to hover just below Idjit, and someone knowledgeable will have to be paid

As a result of these delays, Wordgrove’s writing contest must either be extended 2-3 weeks, or taken out back and shot behind the barn. The decision was taken not to resort to violence, but to coax our nascent contest back to life. The good news is that those having only one or two entries will have breathing space to work on a piece for another category, thereby increasing chances for a prize

Music is planned for the award ceremony (thank you Odile and Society of There Musicians). After mastering Wordgrove’s last ceremony (our first flawless program that wasn’t patterned after farce), Sunny Music will be returning as MC for this year’s presentation. Stay tuned for further developments

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~Greenie: Flowing

The first two lines echo in the last two lines and reverberate here: Love and Pain go hand in hand / flowing together like hourglass sand

~Love, You Shout: A Spilling of A Dream of Love
Passion, exchanging selves in musty sex, the rhapsody of senses that make love eternally tempting; a dream set to words dripping sweat and lust

Pixel by Pixel
The line between dream and illusion is the distance between dreams and life; by bits and bytes the mystery soon revealed

~Feel Me Love, A Spilling of A Dream
After the passion, the nuzzling and pillow-talk that consummate the carnal act of love

Prewritten: 5-10 Suggestions for Prewritten & Impromptu

Ideas from other sources are pending, but the variety offered by current sources bodes well for future word games. Not only are others invited to share ideas, but it is possible to edit and add ideas to those already listed. If so, please mark as amended in the title with a date, and redrop. Participating to date: Stejovis, BarTalk

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Impromptu:

~Piffin: .Waiting for the Peege.
It’s almost 11 at night, just when things start to go crazy in the ER; images impinge, stark, clinical, ominous; the anxious wait, because love wears the uniform of a nurse and she gets off in 5 minutes: a poem

~noxy: waiting in ER
A train of three haiku (bearing the gift of fashioned flowers), rides a looping track of tragedy thru a terminal called ER

~Jessalee: eye contact
Jaw muscles clenched with anxiety, uncertainty, eyes that scream their fear search the room for other eyes intent on the Door, waiting; a blonde enters, eyes empty of message, calls a name and delivers the vanilla news; briefly the terror of others in the room subsides into a smile for the lucky one,  then returns to eyes that turn away 

~Stejovis: The Best Medicine
Laughter is the best medicine. Every rule has the exception, and an Emergency Room is that place

~BarTalk: Surprise Ending

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Writers in Residence:

~Stejovis @Haiku Haven: Writing Haiku
After last week’s severe dressing down for desecrating the pure forms of haiku, a gentle manual for teaching the student who wishes to learn the classic ways. A must read for those with an interest in haiku. Also, see:

http://thewordshop.tripod.com/asian/Japan/haikudef.html

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