Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…
~Brock Thoene

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying.
~Rowan Atkinson

Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.
~Rudy Francisco

EndQuote:
what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.
~Rupi Kaur

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 07/04:   country, send

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Posted from the Grove

Goodbye to Myers-Briggs, the Fad That Won’t Die
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die

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~Adele: Someone Like You   (4:44)

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:   cope, faint

~BarTalk:
Volcano

Love’s blood runs red hot
Faint of heart need not apply
No need to cope
No fear of fallout
No taste of ashes when it dies

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double shift

crepuscular life
faint light of dawn
night dying
copes again
at twilight

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progress

syncope is to fainting
as feigning is to faking
as coping is to making it
without having to pretend

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5-7-5 x 5

faint music, distant
carols and Christmas colors
coping with solstice
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coping with nose news
his cologne stains my pillow
faint smell of her fire
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faint praise for big heads
played hardball game of Fool’s Gold
coped with second place
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coped with erection
tried forbidden gender love
fainted dead away
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feint work to faint praise
fake it until you make it
cope as the drone does

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Quoted In The Grove:
I never have to lie to anyone because I don’t fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid.
~John Gotti

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they’re easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You’d think they’d be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
~Dashiell Hammett

The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
~Garry Kasparov

EndQuote:
Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.
~Gore Vidal

Harvested: DailyPnut (news e-zine)
Curated: Wordgrove

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 06/27:   cope, faint

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Posted from the Grove

Perhaps We’re Being Dense. Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers
https://lithub.com/perhaps-were-being-dense-rejection-letters-sent-to-famous-writers/

Compliments: DailyPnut.com

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Vimeo Video
~Cidney Hue: Ovum   (7:45)
https://vimeo.com/341090511

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@Writers Platform

Syntax Prison

Music scored and stored
Words share a language
Notes as words as music
Compose and edit rhythms
Warden Editor conducts

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Marketing News

War! Dens of Legalized Thieves
Drunk Moose Ignites Inferno
Headline themes meant to tease
Make it BIG!
Reads the memo stamped Internal

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5-7-5 x 4

conservatory
Plan Curfew: at music dorm
warden’s last bed check
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lower the drawbridge
warden of the heart eclipsed
music overrules
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strike the loud music
empty bed prison warden
pardon my escape
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muse icky with smarm
to ward engines of war off
stands accused of lies

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Quoted In The Grove:
I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
~Rita Rudner

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
~Nina LaCour

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

EndQuote:
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.
~Umberto Eco

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 06/20:   warden, music

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Posted from the Grove

ALL THE WORDS:  The real meanings of slang, emoji, and other weird “words”
https://www.dictionary.com/e/all-the-words/?param=HPhttps://www.dictionary.com/e/all-the-words/?param=HP

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~Norah Jones:   Don’t Know Why    (3:12)

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@Writers Platform

~Greenie @I Like The Rain
Morning Meet

Tiny wings flutter
soft winds brush my cheek
twinkling sounds ring
from the twittering beak

Brave little mister
dew drops on demand
ruby throat flashes
as he nears my hand

Fingertip offered
a half moon of sweet
golden sunbeams bright
morning meet complete

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Glass Table:

You ARE

You applaud my drive,
Thank you so much,
for being so funny & ‘touched.’

You are —
Wonder & Grace
You are–
My favorite face
in this space
You are–
Passion and laughter
You are–
Like the Counting Crows album:
August, and Everything After
You are —
My prescription LSD
Magnetic and free
You are —
The Architect of safety and warm hugs
humorous and full of love

~Mary Magdalene O’Neal

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Prewritten:  shrine, city

~BarTalk:
Worship

Not in the wild wood
Nor the city of man
Deep sea to the stars
Shines a light as bright
As my love’s naked shrine

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Cityscape

Some would argue that the City lives
Breathes us in and out like oxygen
Takes a name earns a reputation
As destination’s other home

Penthouse uptown enshrined in law
While downtown streets school the barrio
Find harmless crimes on lists that bind
While shrines are graves that money buys

Crowded hives a briar patch
Driven lives of human scramble
Find love among the barriers
Obstacles and bramble

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Higher Calling

Who dares the sky too high untethered
Cawed Crow as CEO of Murder One United
But who croaks the words of his martinet
Quoth Dove the Hawk from high above their zoo

While airily debating the best place for dining
Whether city the beach or a burg
The soaring city citer lost to Crow snatching burgers
Lost to the low flying scavenger’s urge

So build a shrine to Icarus
For the ill-fated death of a notable son
A noble attempt flew too close to the sun
For a low shabby death just like everyone

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5-7-5 x 2

he scans the sky
city sleeps in peace at night
her shrine crowns the hill
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rich city slicker
checked Guinness Book of Records
bought himself a shrine

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