Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
~Edith Sitwell

There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.
~Rachel Weisz

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness are justified in the person who creates good art.
~Roman Payne

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Posted from the Grove:
Jhynx is back after 6 months. Really good to see you again, Jhynx. Welcome back. Missin’ Piffin still. It’s not the same without…. Get well soon

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From time to time, it has been the practice of the Post & Review to remind members of a couple resources available to them as writers and readers. These three deliver daily, online for free:

A.Word.A.Day, by Anu Garg
Exotic words, useful words, words you thought you knew; plus a daily quote
http://wordsmith.org

The Writer’s Almanac, by Garrison Keillor
Short newsletter begins with a poem (favorites, mostly new-found), then vignettes of writers/people born that day; and from history, a digest of select event/s; edited by our premier folklorist, resonant baritone
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

ThinkExist
Go-to site for its repository of quotes by theme and author, visit daily to uncover 3 or 4 gems from writers born that day, receive a daily quote by email
http://thinkexist.com

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Comic depiction of various writing styles: Holy Kaw ~Grant Snider
http://holykaw.alltop.com/an-offbeat-take-on-the-styles-of-writing-comic

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Prewritten for Thurs (04/03) @6pm PT/9pm ET is:
A third of public school teachers quit within the first year, write about one of them

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops

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Prewritten: tourist, reflex

~Stejovis: two senryu*  (quoted, the second)

famous restaurant
tourists reach instinctively
for their wallets

*Editor’s note: Haiku moments describe nature, place, setting. Senryu capture people, event and moment. Neither requires the 5-7-5 syllable count, tho both seem to have acquired that dimension

~Greymane: Another Day
A hope amid horrors, a memory of home; to sleep and not recover … but then that memory; now it’s dawn with the light of another chance

~BarTalk: Chapter 3 ~Tit for Tat

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Impromptu: Imagine your life if you had the occupation you wanted as a child

~Jessalee: untitled
The fantasy was a knight, a worthy paladin to round out life, make it complete; but it was a prince among men who tamed her, helped shape a world better than her dreams

~Stejovis: haiku (quoted)

warm sunshine
small window admits
trading stamps

Missed haiku from 03/23: ruby, moon  (quoted)

early harvest moon
rides a sea of rubies –
umbrella weather

~BarTalk: not a haiku*

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Writers in Residence:

~Greymane @Greyed Escape: Forgiveness
Spurning his chance at redemption until assured that she’s been freed; in life, it’s not so much poetic license as it is the poet’s choice

Favorite line in a poem of good ones, the first one:
Found God the day she ran away and liquor when she died.

*sometimes called a haiku knot, for the twisting of words to tie down a thought

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