Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
~Simone de Beauvoir

After all my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love,
Just because it perished?
~Edna St Vincent Millay

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
~Murray Kempton

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Posted from the Grove:
The same innocent who considers any 5-7-5, 3 line poem to be haiku is likely to believe that every 14 line poem is a sonnet.  The classic haiku is rich with traditions that are specific in their requirements. Stejovis provides historical context on these finer points in, Writing Haiku, his book located @Haiku Haven at the east end of Wordgrove. For motivated writers, this is a book worth revisiting

This week’s prewritten assignment on sonnets unearthed an interesting variation of the form that essentially disqualified it from the category. Tho they offer a variety of rhyme schemes to choose from, sonnets also adhere to form. It was thought that another round of sonnets might give the maverick member a chance to redeem himself. Piffin did her research and provides the below link to a site on sonnets. If the word spacing is nonstandard at times, the information is solid
http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

This week’s Prewritten prompt is given below. Next week’s assignment was decided early in order to give everyone a chance to spend more time with it during the busy season. The assignment: Italian Sonnet, as described in the above webpage. Theme is open

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Prewritten for Thurs (12.19) 6 pm PT/9 ET is: lamentable, phrasal

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: no new drops

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Prewritten: Write a sonnet

~Stejovis: For My Erstwhile Friend
The ceaseless weaving of people into and out of life; this warp and weft of change now threatens to claim a long-time friendship; the quaint regrets of nostalgia shrink before the crumbling monument of a breaking heart

~Greymane: White
The impermanent winter stresses hard on every attribute that is not spring, that is contrary to summer, that out-freezes fall; the white that cushions all with beauty hides a death beneath

~Piffin: Quick Draw Rubber
Tires scream at the green, young-bloods driving, testosterone at the wheel for the curbside girls; sometimes they die

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Impromptu: reflection, space

~Piffin: haiku
Only black space is eternal, quoth the mirror

~Greymane: untitled
Running from infinity while doing a coy dance with death, two sides of a coin flip that lands on edge; still alive, still alone, still perched on a ledge

~DWade_3: haiku
Stars that shine alike for everyone, shine especially for thee

~BarTalk: her nature

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Writers in Residence:
Apologies are extended for the delay in reviewing new work in Wordgrove pazs

~Stejovis @Haiku Haven: haiku, Quoted from, Daylight Conquers Night

remnants of night
linger beneath forest trees
shading the ground

~Greymane @Greyed Expectations: The Rain
The unrelenting soaking sadness seems to have eased a bit … today; when life gives you nothing but grey days and rain, no point thinking about rainbows; keep your head above water and thank heaven for a break in the clouds

~XWobbuffetX: Avatar
Try talking to Outworlders about the casual miracles that make up life in There, discover they haven’t the experience that’s needed for understanding (like talking to someone about war who hasn’t been); from war to online Eden, to the inexplicable next-level up … what next?

~AgapeLove @Faith Re-Tree-it: Enter His Gates
From “Cottage Quotes”
A belated Thanksgiving meditation on thankfulness and praising God

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