Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
~Grace Murray Hopper

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
~Roger von Oech

End Quote by ~Washington Irving
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

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Posted from the Grove:
Previous experience of the summer doldrums in There led this editor to install the summer hiatus as a Wordgrove tradition. It was a time set aside for those working on personal projects while everyone scatters for their usual summer pleasures. This editor having the time for it doesn’t change the picture for others. It’s summertime and people want to play. Just please, please always have pen and paper nearby, or a screen with keyboard

Since the Post & Review is almost entirely dependent on member content, and this amount being seasonally reduced, it was decided to return to the traditions of hiatus and take the summer off. Thurs Word Games will continue thru the break as they have in the past. Prewritten and Impromptu writing exercises from Hiatus ’14 will be reviewed when the Post & Review returns late Sept / early Oct

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Prewritten for Thurs (07/31) @6pm PT/9 ET is: ocean, rust

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Four Reasons to Use Dramatic Irony in Your Story
http://writerswrite.co.za/the-four-reasons-to-use-dramatic-irony-in-your-story

phdcomics.com on writing
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd072114s.gif

“Weird Al” Yankovic rappin’ about, Word Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten: wither on the vine

~Jessalee: wither on the vine
Wine from the vine is fine, confined ids turn loosey-goosey; refinement’s dull decorum on the run, makes ’em swoon and ask, who is she?

~Piffin: “Harvest” (qif)

Hither runs the farmer wife
Thither through my mind
Planting thoughts that come to naught
And wither on the vine
Breezes without movement
Treeses I can’t climb
With shaky shoots in concrete boots
These roots, at least, are mine

~BarTalk: Interview, informal

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Impromptu: dignity, shadows

~Greymane: untitled
Say the words ‘fallen angel’ and one feels in the presence of a distal holiness; thrown from heights to where the only evidence of light is a penumbra in the shadows, a dream lies tumbled but the wings remain

~Jessalee: 1 & 2
1. haiku (qif)

skirt lifts just enough
no dignity in the shadows
as the man walks by

2. untitled
Courage to match the horror; the history of conscience and a win
http://vimeo.com/101297679

~Greenie: A Walk in the Shadows
Shadows are for contrast for those who live in light; the colors are those of ecstasy to the poet given sight

~BarTalk: not a haiku

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