Quoted in the Grove:
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~Santayana
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.
~Wangari Muta Maathai
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Posted from the Grove:
Due to the Super Bowl and preparations for the Wordgrove Prize contest, this week’s newsletter is agreeably short
Prewritten for Thurs (11/01) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is: Create a drama without action in it
On the Contest: Seeds for the contest show their first blooms. Following, a few words on each of the drops as of Sat evening, 2/2. Those dropped later will be reviewed next week
Prose:
~noxy: Insert Typical High School Phone Convo Here
Total intensity, vignette by phone; clueless passion and a clear eyed friend; a comedy, for real
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Poetry:
~Stejovis: Daylight Conquers Night
There are many awakenings in the wild as night gives way before the blooming light of dawn; a paean to light’s conception in serial haiku
~Piffin: .The Glitter Machine.
Thigh-high sequin dresses on the dance floor, indigo and maroon; come midnight the band swings, a dancing centerpiece grips the room
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Journal:
~noxy: ~D~R~A~M~A~
Drama renounces all rights to reign from the throne of Literature, deigns to begin service as an Acronym in the kingdom of Comedy
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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops
Prewritten: Write about snooping in someone’s diary
~Piffin: Snooping in someone’s diary
Jaded finds a diary, dips into to it after debate to find a vacuous dilettante pretending a life; their penmanship is a match however, a black and white doppelganger on the page
~BarTalk: Snoopy
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Impromptu: Describe a mechanism
~Stejovis: Diurnal Clockwork (a word sonnet)
Waxing and waning, the moon and the tides
~BarTalk: So, to War
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Writers in Residence: On hiatus
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