Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won’t do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon your attention.
~Sam Harris

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
~William Newton Clarke

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
~E B White

End Quote by ~Thomas Hardy

Well, World, you have kept faith with me,
Kept faith with me;
Upon the whole you have proved to be
Much as you said you were.

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Posted from the Grove:
It started with Greymane’s poem.  Good enough that it must stand on its own, beyond condensing, beyond review. The only justice would be to publish it. Then Piffin’s poem insisted the same, distillation being impossible in good poetry. Then Jessalee’s poem and TommyO’s story, all demanding to be read in the original. An embarrassment of riches.  There is room for one haiku by Stejovis. Otherwise, this recommendation: Hotfoot it over to WG’s Platform, grab a few from the Prewritten and Impromptu benches, take the easy chair and enjoy your reads. Seriously

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Prewritten for Thurs (04/17) @6pm PT/9 ET is: wither on the vine

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops

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Prewritten: gypsy, discipline

~Greymane: untitled
Who would think to look more closely in the glittering romance of moonlight; the grin under the mask behind the façade, something sinister

Piffin: “Miracle” ~ An ode to contentment

BarTalk: Gypsy Life

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Impromptu: padlock, lilt

~Greymane: A Part
A journey only possible with the pain reined in; then insight from a light, a voice reminding, you’ve always had the key

~Jessalee: untitled
Love that sacrifices receives love in return; there are sides to the equation not answerable to rules, but there’s a pull to love that people want to obey

~Piffin: “Tadpole” ~ Frog Prince in-waiting

~TommyO: A Dark Place
Solitary confinement: how rules change and how the mind bends to the hammer of loneliness in a society of one; believable pain as a character

Stejovis: first of three haiku (qif)

an open padlock –
the lilt of a chorus
beside the pond

~BarTalk: make me

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Writers in Residence:

~Jessalee @The Nut’s Hut: Vid Places used in There
There.com is old enough now to have developed traditions and stories around its permanent sites. Tho less pliable and plastic than other worlds online, the durability of There’s landscape allows legends to develop and take on life. Real life. With their buildings and gardens, designs and constructions, people come and go … but the land remains. There endures

Perhaps it was the landscape itself that dictated the characters and storyline, but Jessa gave herself up to this feature of pixel permanence and let the story thru. She created a short video of the places used in her book’s creation, a story of generations and migration. It’s worth a visit

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=129721123716628&l=3131355077887019189

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