Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
There’s definitely a dangerous feeling when you’re in love–it’s giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that’s the dangerous thing.
~Beyonce Knowles

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
~Tom Watson

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
~Robert Bridges

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Posted from the Grove:
It is time to vote. Rumblings that more entries are pending notwithstanding, this is the last week for voting, and Saturday, Valentine’s Day, is the last day. Late drops are welcome, and remain eligible for the Gold Torch award.

The decision for online voting anticipated that the five slots available on the Tally Boards would not be enough to accommodate the number of entries. Results indicate that this overly-cautious enthusiasm was unwarranted and opened up the voting to those with no chance to read all the entries, those outside of There. Life lessons being the kind that are always learned too late to help … this time, the Wordgrove Prize is strategically positioned to do well should there be another.

To vote, go to top of the page at: http://www.wordgrove.com/contest.html

Entries dropped to date:

Poetry:
~Wizrardofoz:  The Unknown
~Greymane:  Asylum in A Minor
~GaryBob:  Once and Forever

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 Prose:
~Wizardofoz:  Strangers In The Night
~Greymane:  Silent Shadows
~noxy:  Long Distance Relationship

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Multimedia:
~Piffin: The Resurrection Machine

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My Way table:
~Jessalee:  provisions

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Black is back!! NathanielBlack returns to There and Wordgrove, and Gallery Black stands in place again at Wordgrove’s west end. The walls look a bit hungry for art still, but stop by, say ‘hi’, perhaps offer the loan of a favorite piece from your private collection. Art should be seen and not stored away in some pixel vault. Think of it as a homecoming gift you get to reclaim … or make it an outright gift for tax purposes. Welcome back, Black!

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Beatlebaby was the winner in Aluria’s Poetry Jam with, “I AM A ZOMBIE”, and drove away in her new prize buggy. Stay tuned for word on future Poetry Jams by Aluria.

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Prewritten for Thurs (02/12) @6pm PT/9 ET is: internship, frigid

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops

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Prewritten: Prewritten:  Aswim, a fantasy pic
http://ishtari.arcticworlds3d.com/therestuff/aswim.jpg

~Greymane:  Ballerina   (qif)

Tiny ballerina tossed into a cold aquarium
wrapped in silent waters of her sanitarium
Escaping future fears of things that may not come to pass
Her Bubbles break the surface as a giant taps the glass

Dollhouse underwater in a room without a view
The giant’s lonely daughter and a toy that she outgrew
She smiles with her final breath, freedom her ballet
The giant stomps a monstrous foot and slowly walks away

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~Piffin:  haiku  (qif)

The life of the mind
Stretching with so much freedom
I can hardly breathe

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~BarTalk: ascent

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Impromptu: horseman, security blanket

~Piffin: “5:30 AM”  (qif)

I’m a horseman
I’m a cavalier
I’m a pirate
A brave buccaneer
When I sleep and I dream
Across oceans I steer
My security blanket my sail
I’m a gangster
I’m a dinosaur
I am Queen of the Jungle
Hear me roar
Until my alarm clock
Rips me once more
From my slumber
With a big fail

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~Greymane: Vanquished  (qif)

The horseman bought whiskey with memories sold
and followed his sorrow where legends unfold
He hid himself in a security blanket
He took the boat home but his selfishness sank it

Miles from nowhere he enters the ring
Beaten and vanquished he started to sing
He sang for his freedom from wisdom so cruel
it enslaved him with passions not meant for a fool

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~GaryBob: haiga
http://www.wordgrove.com/GB_haiga.html

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~BarTalk: not-a-limerick (with apologies)

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