Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
Like music and art, wilderness can be defined only on its own terms. The less talk, the better.
~Ansel Adams

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou

Without music, life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

EndQuote:
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 06/16:  city, shrine

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Posted from the Grove

~Gareth Branwyn: How to Be a Better Writer
If counterintuitive to this editor’s practice in small ways, very useful
https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-be-a-better-writer-a3c877f67a5c

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Because you haven’t seen everything yet…
http://www.hintmag.com/wigs-on-asses-ana-hell–february-27-2017-2326-fashion?mc_cid

Compliments: Rusty’s Electric Dream

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Exercise:  wishbone, spider

~BarTalk:
She He They

She
Couldn’t tell tarantula from a wild tarantella
Nor a spider from the dance at the sight of one
He
Was the same who took a wishbone home
Believed in the bone it gave if you wished for one
They
Are happy now together at last
Love is strange the universe vast

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Post-Nups

Wed at The Wishbone where serendipity met
Pledged where the rivers join at Wishbone Bend
A spider dangles loosely in the sacred hush
Patient as Satan near the burning bush

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Christmas Wish

Bone dry water empty kibble bowls
In a season of giving among generous souls
Only I saw Roxy fake-sniff the yams
Do the dodge ’n dart ’n quick grab the ham
Do the skid ‘n scoot
Spied her on the lam
So we made Noel the most-of instead of least-of
And celebrated Christmas as our Feast of the Pizza

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incantation

wishbone broken bone
spider and ladder
surprise him with face time
share sudden space/time
with this painter
briefly

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5-7-5 x 5

spider web brush by
unmanly screams shred the night
wishbone for a spine
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wishbone cleaned and bleached
black spider, no poison, pinned
trophies of the hunt
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age spots, spider veins
future plans not an issue
wishbone is broke too
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discarded wishbone
would have but for the spider
someone’s wasted wish
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dry brittle wishbone
winner gets the bananas
spider monkey rules

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Quoted in The Grove:
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
~Indira Gandhi

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
~Emile Chartier

There are two kinds of people; those who divide people into two kinds, and those who don’t.
~unknown

EndQuote
There are three kinds of people; those who are good at math, and those who aren’t.
~unknown

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 06/06:   spider, wishbone

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Posted From the Grove

Vimeo Videos:

~Jason McColgan:   The Wait ~ A Story    (4:38)

Mumford & Sons:   Beloved ~ A Song    (4:51)

~Bradley Tangonan:   Kaholo’A’Ā ~ A Nature Video    4:07)

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Prewritten:   trigger, twice

~BarTalk:
Hokey History #2

It was Roy of the range and not Mr Rogers
The one riding Trigger and not he of the ‘hood
Rounding up all the rustlers he could muster
Painting it pretty ignoring the blood
Winning weekly with Gotcha at Post Office posters
Twice as good with a song as he was with a gun
A true son of pioneers when we were innocent and young

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Merry-Go-Round

Hoity toity versus the hoi poloi
Singing martial verses as the police deploy
Fingers on triggers itchy and twitchy
Boss of da bosses feeling witchy and bitchy
Half the sense times twice the distance
Page turned in history begins with an instance

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5-7-5 x 6

first fright triggers flight
twice the eyes catch in passing
and the smile is real
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twice burned lesson learned
triggered reflex shies away
what the wild world sees
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aye, twice abandoned
pull the trigger thus, my love
send me on my way
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spring pollinating
pollen triggered sneeze assault
twice today dammit
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twice, I remember
the smell triggered memories
coming and going
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a stroll in the park
a trigger in the shadows
once to kill, then twice

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