Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

My contention is that music, poetry, and dance came into the world together. Civilization in the form of the printing press forced them apart.
~Joy Harjo

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world’s champions.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
~Henry van Dyke

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Posted from the Grove:
Thanksgiving and WG’s Thurs Word Games share something in common this week. Guess? Yes, both begin with the letter T, and both fill a hunger for sharp taste and tangy sustenance … but no. Simply enough, both occupy the same space on the calendar, a same-day convenience for some … but not for others. Please contact this editor if another day or time makes the difficult more possible

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One of the goals of this newsletter has been to introduce readers to resources that are useful and enjoyable. Wordsmith.org publishes a daily email, a.word.a.day, that is just what it says. It includes a daily quote, and is looked forward to by people in 170 countries every day. “The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace.” ~The New York Times.

One of the pleasures of this newsletter comes from making word-lovers laugh. The link below is to a page of spoonerisms sent in by avid readers of AWAD. All are fun, some are laugh aloud funny. Unfortunately the tame ones come early; the bawdy squirm-inducing ones wait their turn. Malapropisms follow

http://wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail556-extra.html

A reminder, the Wordgrove Post & Review is an open forum. Letters to the editor, personal projects looking for an audience, a must-share music video, a story in a picture, a short online read worth passing on … all these are welcome for posting in this newsletter

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 Prewritten for Thurs (11/27) @6pm PT/9 ET is: meme

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~Jessalee: Shadows Falling
Jessa channels a neighboring poet’s excruciation. Some people live to cast a longer shadow in their sunset years; first his father, then a brother and after, his mother … torn away; turned loose in death, yet their shadows are with him still

~Greenie:
Shadow Dance
The moving edge of shadows, a dance native to the moon and sun, more vital than the light of lamps and the static light of man; but if it is a man that dances and his shadow is the thing, throw a brutal light that burns and a partner for him to swing

On Golden Beams
The brittle light of winter follows the sunlight on autumn’s wall, lonely nights turn loneliest after Leonid’s meteors announce the end of fall

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Prewritten: freeze or frozen

~Greymane: Frozen
Sorrows embalmed in silence, a grey day filled with rain, liquid ice and echoes preserve memories in the brain

~Piffin: haiga (haiku inscribed on image created by its author

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/15652193828

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~BarTalk: The Heart Is a Tundra

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Impromptu: Theme: stressed

~Piffin: “Pigeons”
Favorite lines: last five, quoted

Be my guest
But lose the shoes
The medals on your chest
I love you for your mind
When it’s undressed

~Greymane: Dismal

A grim litany of disagreeable words that begin with the letter, D … with one charming exception: Disarm

~Greenie: Stressed
Stretched fabric stressed by his bulge of passion

~BarTalk:  image loop

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