Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
~Sir Richard Francis Burton

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire

I have lost the consolation of faith / though not the ambition to worship.
~Forrest Gander

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Posted from the Grove:

Inasmuch as Wordgrove was created to support writers in their craft, it is with real pleasure we congratulate Piffin for having two poems accepted for the Sinister Wisdom literary & art journal. The Woman You Need, and, sunday afternoon, will be published in their fall edition. Details to follow. Anyone curious can visit at: http://sinisterwisdom.org

After this Thurs (06.06), Word Games will reschedule to Mon evenings at the same time: 5 pm PT, 8 ET

Last regular edition of the Wordgrove Post & Review before summer hiatus is 06.16. This editor will do the first Sun of each month thru’out the 3 month break. Piffin has agreed to each third Sun. Anyone interested in picking up a week for creative kicks is welcome to do so. Format and style are yours to choose, but should include quotes. Please contact BarTalk, help is provided

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Prewritten for Thurs (06/06) 5 pm PT/8 ET is: Write a sonnet
There are 3 major formats, with the additional option of word sonnet. For a concise introduction to the sonnet form, check out Stejovis, Various Sonnets, on Writers Platform

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table:

~Piffin: Oblation
(from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks at the Diner)
Odd, the narratives that guide people in moral crisis; what Jesus and the widow’s mite mean to a hit man, and the strange place the heart of it takes him

For the full story, click below. Password is: wordgrove
http://ledzeptshirt.wordpress.com/oblation-first-draft/

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Prewritten: constellation, fireworks

~Aluria: God Bless THE U S A
A long happy day with baseball and beer, friends and family, dancing to Willie, the sky now ‘an orgasm of color’; celebrating the 4th in the south the same as everywhere else, with extra gratitude for those who took a bullet for the rest of us in the US of A

~Stejovis: one of two haiku

when life offers its
constellation of choices,
go for the fireworks

~AidenScott: Prewritten 1 & 2
Changing tenses and points of view weave a tale of metamorphosis; from waitress/mom to murderess/whore … and the agent who recruited her; a gent and a dangerous piece of tail

~BarTalk: the experiment

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Impromptu: reverie, woven, spider

~Piffin: .South of Midnight.
Foreign chimes and exotic smells, foggy light and a light rain in a Chinatown staged for love

~Aluria: Andy Griffith Smile
With a big country smile that reaches to his eyes, in a scrubland that echoes with distant Seminole drums, a city girl reconsiders

~ReenRen: Woven Reverie
Wordless meditations of unknown origin but gifted by Fate

~Stejovis: Regarding a Reverie
Reverie as a quantum event, or maybe Schrödinger’s cat; consider it, and the reverie both is and isn’t

~BarTalk: anticipation

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