Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~Judy Garland

You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you’re the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You’re his responsibility now and he’s yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won’t. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?
~Jane Smiley

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~Pearl Bailey

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Posted from the Grove:

On the Contest: A quote on Valentine’s Day
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a love in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration indeed.
~Tom Robbins

The Wordgrove Prize is our club’s gauntlet challenge to Mr Robbins’ chilling observation. Our contest defies the winter doldrums as no other organization dares … um, except maybe for something called the Grammys, is it? Also, a little known group named for uncle Oscar does something, and ….

No matter, because this is our chance to vote, and the time to vote is now! Most have waited for late-comers to drop before voting, and some have benefited from this courtesy, but Thurs the 14th, at midnight is the deadline for voting. This is two things to remember for Valentine’s Day

Important Note!!
Since all the entries in each category fit easily on the Tally Boards, and most Nutters held off voting until now, this is your chance to vote twice. The official count remains the online poll @wordgrove.com, but this gives visitors to WG an immediate reading of current results without having to go online. This is your chance to be heard twice, but vote online if you vote only once. This standard will correct against the possibility that more may enter in a category than the Tally Board can display

You are encouraged to invite friends to vote, but in fairness to others, we ask that visitors check out all the submissions of the category in which they vote

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Prose:

~Wizardofoz: Clowns In A Circus
God creates Adam for entertainment, is bored and fashions Eve, adds children when he’s jaded, then more, and more until complexities multiply out of control; the show becomes a layered weave of myriad threads when skin color and language are added in; the pattern (we are told), is wholly discernable only from the majesty of his holy distance

Previously reviewed (pr)
~noxy: ~D~R~A~M~A~  (pr 02.03)

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Poetry:

~GaryBob: Swan Song
Her last aria, perhaps her finest performance vanishes into the grim silence of an empty house; the tragedy that befalls performers: no more pictures, no posters, no applause, no clamoring for autographs, no chatter in the dressing rooms; and the greatest loss for our soprano, no more clouds of love scent from her adoring crowd of roses

~Wizardofoz: God Have Mercy
An impassioned voice crying in the wilderness; who knows which words to heed, except those that last always speak of love

Previously reviewed:  (pr)
~Stejovis: Daylight Conquers Night  (pr 02.03)
~Piffin: . Glitter Machine. (pr 02.03)

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Journal:

~Wizardofoz: Wheels of Misfortune
The very rich are as happy and passionate and devastated by a love-gone-bad as the rest of us, and as easily penetrated by a bullet

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Prewritten for Thurs (02.14) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is:
Describe an argument between two people that begins in bed

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table: Condition is barren, largely uninhabited except for weeds planted by BarTalk: Legends of the Whale, show me

Prewritten: create a drama without action

~Stejovis: Orchestra Hall
Imagine the building as a body with insidious disease; imagine a day of great celebration for building and body and that the structural engineer, as internist, discovers imminent death, the prognosis: cascading failure: will hundreds die, or is he in time

~Piffin: drama without action
Heavy, pregnant with the water of life, the suspense of a filipendulous raindrop

~BarTalk: Quandary #3 of 4

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Impromptu: describe a raindrop

~Piffin: .Turnpike.  (described a smokestack)
View from the freeway of a desolate landscape and grimy air; ugly Priapus on the horizon spewing death, blocking the light

~Jessalee: journey of an ant
Danger in the course of duty, the tsunami of a raindrop to an ant caught unaware

~Stejovis: Orchestra Hall
Rivulets of fallen raindrops down the front of painted glass; crystalline drops distort synthetically the unchanging face beneath

~BarTalk: not a haiku: raindrop

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Writers in Residence: On hiatus for the contest

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