Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
~Donald Foster

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
~Sophia Loren

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
~Al Franken

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Posted from the Grove:
Apologies for last week’s misquoting of Stejovis’ haiku. Stej had the temerity to use two meanings of a single word playing off each other in his haiku. The gall of the poet was exceeded only by his audacity. Hmmm, that’s not right. … was exceeded only by this editor’s clumsiness. Ah, there we have it! The correct version follows (qif):

winter leaves –
the beds where it has lain
are all askew

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This is open call for poets, storytellers, buskers, musicians. You are invited to join Greenie and Wordgrove for the premier of the OnStage with Greenie show on Fri, May 9, @6pm PT/9 ET.  One reader is on the list. There’s room for more

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Prewritten for Thurs (05/01) @6pm PT/9 ET: You have safe-guarded a small box a very long time. It contains a secret, but you have forgotten what it is

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table

~Greenie:
Dream with Me
Of love and miles and yearning, they rendezvous in dreams

Do You Know
Plato’s ideal love in friendship, or the love of sweat and wetness; domestic love, or the love of shared adventure; Love’s a Chinese menu, pick one from A and B

The Flip Side
On one side: loneliness, betrayal, a palette of greys; by chance there’s another: of friends and discovery, and the choice of any from colored arcs of rainbow

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~Stejovis: Surety of Verity
(A three sonnet cycle, 16^th Century style)
Whether wit, a cleverness used in the taming of life, or a willful foolishness for escaping same, the last man gets put away, and … game over

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Prewritten: Haiku, with a second line pivot

~Stejovis: haiku (quoted in full)

a dragonfly skims
across the water
dutch tulips

~Greymane: haiku (qif)

Dew gathers
On spiral webs
Spiders wait

~BarTalk: Verticals ~ 3 haiku

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Impromptu: Word sonnet using: intrigue or doctor

~Piffin: “Velvet Teen” Recommended, a story in nouns

~Greenie: A Sonnet Becomes An Intrigue
Life: the maelstrom that powers prose and the poems that answer back

~Greymane: untitled
The extremity of opposites, of nightmares and collegial sleep

~Stejovis: untitled (qif)

In
measured
moments
filled
with
intrigue
he
was
transformed
from
brigand
into
gentle
doctor

~BarTalk: Headlines

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Writers in Residence

~Greenie: Haiku Moon

The Moon as a bowl
A’waiting the Stars to fall
Filling it with Dreams

~Greymane @Greyed Expectations: Her Unknown
Actuarial tables say she’s used up half of it; the long downward slide into her second half interrupted by this plateau

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